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Headed to a big game
Louisville football tomorrow hosts SMU at 3:30. This one goes a long way in determining the Cardinals chances of going to the national playoffs, since the Mustangs rank 16th nationally, while the Cards are seven places behind them at 23rd. But how do programs reach that ranking. A lot of it is money. Take a…
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Welcome to Gilead?
I was taking my early morning walk on Sunday and saw this in the distance: And of course, the first irrational thought was: Are those women handmaids? Did something happen last night, and I woke up in Gilead? For the nonliterary types, I’m referring to the dystopian nation featured in Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale.”…
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The murals of Louisville
We do a lot of walking through the streets of Louisville. As we noted in our last podcast, we also run across murals you won’t necessarily notice if you’re driving through the city, like the painting at the top of noted mid-20th century singer Rosemary Clooney, the aunt of actor George Clooney, located on a…
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The Bluegrass Blues Podcast: Episode 21
Black History Month and the history of American oppression; Kentucky Republicans continue to act against constituents’ interests; municipal legislators fall short (again); dealing with ICE; another failure in journalism, and honorably mentioning local sports. Our discussion includes: The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after King, has died at 84…
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The Bluegrass Blues Podcast: Episode 19
A discussion on the health, education and human-services failures we’re seeing in Kentucky. How our Democratic politicians are failing us, and a little sports talk at the end! Some of the topics we discuss: Lexington neighborhood littered with KKK fliers ahead of MLK Jr. downtown march Far fewer people buy Obamacare coverage as insurance premiums…
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The rivalry continues: Cards vs. Cats in women’s soccer
The NCAA Division I women’s soccer tournament began this past weekend, and the opening round of Bluegrass interest was held here Saturday in Louisville. The opponents were what you would want in a match in the commonwealth: No. 6-seed Louisville vs. Kentucky. At the end of regulation, the score was 1-1. (If you were watching…
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Change in UofL women’s hoops
Today’s the home opener for the University of Louisville women’s basketball team, and one key person will be missing from the sidelines: Stephanie Norman made that announcement in April, but she isn’t leaving the sport. She’s returning home to Arizona State: Sun Devil Women’s Basketball alumna and a member of the A STEP UP Assistant…
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There’s a sports tournament in the Ville this week
You ever go to a sporting event and see a team jump for joy at the end because they won? (Well, yeah. That happened at the World Series this weekend). But this was a different sport and, obviously, something big just happened, but you don’t know what? On Saturday, I was at Trager Stadium, the…
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Former Cardinals are winners in the World Series
The Los Angeles Dodgers have won back-to-back World Series, and this time it was because of a former Louisville Cardinal: The photo at the top of the page is from Will Smith’s bio on the University of Louisville Baseball page. He had a great year in 2016, with career honors listed as: • 2016 MLB…
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Let’s talk about student journalism in the Ville
This headline appears in the CJ: U of L finds millions for sports but looks to cut newspaper funding. Another headline says: 3 things to know about UofL’s student newspaper potentially losing funding Read the above stories, and you’ll see that UofL is trying to introduce a student fee to run the student newspaper. And…
