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Police surround Fair and Expo Center
The day’s events at the Nike EBYL girls’ basketball tournament in Louisville were cancelled this afternoon because of this: UPDATE: A reminder that thousands of middle- and high-school girls have been spending the weekend at the Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center for the Nike Elite Youth Basketball League (or EYBL) tournament. And some asshole has…
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Hoop dreams in the Ville
Thousands of middle- and high-school girls are spending the weekend at the Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center for the Nike Elite Youth Basketball League (or EYBL) tournament, which started Friday and goes through Monday. It’s an impressive gathering of student athletes that involves access to 80 basketball courts all having games at the same time.…
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Since the CJ isn’t going to edit itself
Two annoying stories in the local paper today that should be simple reader service but are problematic in their lack of information. The first has this headline, Tom Jurich, ex-University of Louisville AD, has stretch of Floyd Street named after him, and says: A portion of Floyd Street that runs through the University of Louisville‘s campus…
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College World Series All-Stars
The University of Louisville baseball team made the Final Four of the College World Series tournament, and it’s players made a great impression on those who admire “The Greatest Show on Dirt.” Three Cardinals were names to the All-Tournament team.
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UofL strikes out
Well, the Cardinals baseball season is over, but the big consolation here is that against all expectations, they made the Final Four in the College World Series. Here’s a game recap: From the university: The University of Louisville baseball team saw its season come to a close on Wednesday with an 11-3 loss against Coastal…
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Bluegrass baseball update
Louisville baseball season continues with a nail biting win over Oregon State. Here’s the ninth inning: Only one Kentucky team is left in the college baseball playoffs. Murray State, the Cinderella team of the tournament, was ousted a day earlier, the victim of the first no hitter in the tournament since 1960. It went something…
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The College World Series Cinderella team is from Ky.
Louisville played its first game in the College World Series last night against Oregon State in Omaha. But the Cinderella team this year is another Kentucky School that goes on the field today. From the CJ: Bobby Bonilla gets paid more every year to not play baseball ($1.19 million) than Murray State spent on its entire program during…
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Cause it’s root, root, root for the home teams
In our obsession with the University of Louisville making the College World Series in Omaha, we’ve neglected to point out that there could be an all-Kentucky final. Here are the brackets: The Murray State Racers are from Western Kentucky. Here’s when they clinched their position in the Championship bracket: Time to root for an all-Bluegrass…
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Kentucky GOP protects pedophiles
This happened: Because this happened: The GOP has a supermajority in the Kentucky House and Senate. The blame falls squarely on Republicans. They call it a state emergency when literally one trans athlete wants to compete in a sport, but when it comes to protecting female students from pedophile coaches, they go a runnin’ at…
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UofL sports: What the school should really emphasize
This just reinforces the point we made in our latest Bluegrass Blues Podcast (Episode 5). Check it out to see why we say the University of Louisville would do well by promoting itself as a place where student athletes should go to master their craft, just like a lawyer should go to Harvard or a…
