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Sports journalist for WDRB. Opinions expressed here are my own. Occasionally, they will be wrong. But not on purpose.

Louisville, Ky., USA
Joined August 2007
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4 years
A protestor (at an overwhelmingly peaceful protest) in downtown Louisville has made off with the hand of the King Louis XVI statue
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Louisville mayor Greg Fischer has fired police chief Steve Conrad after learning that police body cameras were NOT activated during last night’s shooting of David McAtee at 26th and Broadway.
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Lamar Jackson's mother, Felicia Jones, watches video tributes to her son before his number was retired at Louisville
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Emily Engstler and Hailey Van Lith both tear up when talking about Louisville Coach Jeff Walz after their Elite Eight win over Michigan ...
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Kentucky Derby winner Rich Strike with groom Jerry Dixon Jr. at trainer Eric Reed's barn this morning
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Good morning from Kentucky Derby winner Rich Strike
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2 years
And that is why the Derby is the best
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3 years
One of the great college sports injustices is happening right now in Omaha, Neb. Not the College World Series itself. But that most of the players there are paying for the opportunity to play college baseball. Most rosters are around 35 players. Number of scholarships: 11.7.
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4 years
President-elect Joe Biden has won Arizona. His lead is now greater than the number of uncounted votes. Biden was first projected to win Arizona by the AP and FoxNews on Election Night. AZ has already audited half of its counties, including the 4 largest, and reported no fraud.
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Today marks six months post-stroke for me. A quick thanks to people who continue to check on me. I feel humbled anytime I walk through the concourses at the KFC Yum! Center, or Rupp Arena, or even grocery aisles. All is well, and still moving forward.
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4 years
The sun rises on Kentucky Derby 146.
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This is a difficult one. Felton Spencer, a former University of Louisville standout who went onto the NBA and was loved in the community, has died, according to his family. I was Felton's orientation staffer when he arrived on campus. Prayers for his family, friends and fans.
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Josh Allen: “You all record this. If I don’t go No. 1, I don’t know who is.”
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Denny Crum did not speak at today’s dedication of Denny Crum Hall. Once you turn 85, there are always health issues. But I do think this picture sends the message of 1,000 words.
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6 years
An update, with thanks to everybody …
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Some guy wanted one more photo with his fourth Final Four trophy after the arena cleared out ... @CoachJeffWalz
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3 years
Former teammates Lamar Jackson and Malik Cunningham
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6 years
Two months ago today, I suffered a stroke. I’ve now completed occupational and speech therapy, and am working on my own to heal the rest. I guess I’m 90% back to normal, though my typing speed is about 85% back. I'm also 25-30 pounds lighter. Thanks for the continued support!
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MIKE KRZYZEWSKI: "I want to thank Louisville. They could not have honored me in a better way than to have Denny Crum out before the game. ... Denny is of the true icons of our game. ... I hugged him a few times because you don't get a chance to be with people of that level."
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Happy 85th birthday to this guy, Hall of Famer Denny Crum
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Passing along condolences and prayers to Louisville football coach Scott Satterfield and his family, who learned before yesterday's game that his father had passed away. I don't have many details, will pass along as they become available.
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Louisville AD Vince Tyra told me he brought a 15-year old bottle of Pappy van Winkle to toast Satterfield and his staff for reaching bowl eligibility. “We’ll be the only guys ever to drink Pappy out of Gatorade cups.”
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MACK on the technical: “I can’t get into the officiating. I thought it was a bad call at that point in the game. But he’s the official and he’s right. . . . But sometimes my wife is right and I still think she’s wrong.”
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3 years
QUICK THOUGHT: Bob Valvano begins chemo treatments today. All prayers I’m sure are appreciated.
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2 years
NCAA standing up for "student athletes" this week includes having Indiana and Wyoming tip off at 9:20 p.m. Tuesday in the First Four in Dayton for the right to travel to Portland for a Thursday 7:20 Eastern game against Saint Mary's. Ridiculous.
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Louisville was led by a kid from Florida nobody else wanted, a hometown Manual High kid who transferred from UNC Asheville and a former Samford point guard from Lexington.
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A familiar face back in the KFC Yum! Center … Montrezl Harrell. (NCAA period in exile ended.)
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New Louisville football coach Jeff Brohm watching some NCAA Volleyball before being introduced as coach later this afternoon
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7 years
You can’t fire an athletic director of Tom Jurich’s stature for cause, refuse to discuss it, and expect it to go well with fan base.
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Kentucky Division I men's programs, postseason wins the past 4 seasons: Morehead State 9 Northern Kentucky 7 WKU 5 Bellarmine 5 EKU 4 Murray State 4 Kentucky 2 Louisville 1
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Great to see this guy in the crowd at Bellarmine tonight. “My first college basketball game since the last one I coached.” David Padgett says he’ll begin work for ESPN in 2 weeks, as an analyst for Rhode Island-Saint Louis. “I’ll probably be a nervous wreck.”
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THE MAN WHO CAME TO STAY | Legendary Louisville basketball coach Denny Crum passed away this morning at his home at age 86. Incredibly sad day for Louisville, and many of us personally. But we're glad he has found rest
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Denny Crum. Angel McCoughtry.
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3 years
Sunrise on the backside @ChurchillDowns this morning was an attention-getter
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More great Jody Demling news to report this morning. @jdemling is off the ventilator! His wife, Angela, says via FB, “We are beyond excited!!!” Goals today are to rest and breathe. Keep praying for him. And thanks for all who have.
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The University of Louisville athletic association board has approved a 7-year contract for baseball coach Dan McDonnell with rollover provisions aimed at keeping him as coach for the rest of his career
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Payne said he was yelling to a player on defense, "Get there! Get there! Get there!" Player was late, Pitt player hit a 3, then turned to Payne and said, "He didn't get there, coach."
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Howard Schnellenberger, the father of modern University of Louisville football, has passed away, Florida Atlantic University has announced. A legendary sports figure if ever there was one.
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4 years
New York’s number of discharged from hospital exceeded new admissions in the last 24 hours.
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Lamar Jackson, on his 2017 Heisman experience: “I knew why I was coming here. I was going to come here and cheer on those guys and it’s OK. I’m cool.”
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MACK | "It is time for me to focus on my family and spend more time being a dad."
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5 years
Nice moment after Malik Cunningham’s late touchdown run …
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2 years
Calipari keeps saying they were up 8 with 3 minutes to go. They never led by 8 in this game.
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JEFF WALZ | "The win was great. The celebration was great. But that moment on that podium when those ladies said what they said, that superseded us winning that game last night. That's how much that meant to me."
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Kenny Payne said Louisville didn’t have the tights that Ty-Laur Johnson wanted, so Johnson “wasn’t sure” he wanted to play in the first half. “In the second half, he accepted the fact that we didn’t have the kind of tights that we’d never had for him, and he played well.”
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4 years
Just updating you all on Jody Demling. He was put on a ventilator this morning. Doctors remain hopeful, but if you’re a praying person, he needs and appreciates it
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Denny Crum, being introduced with his 1975 Final Four team in the KFC Yum! Center today
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Mack: “I’m happy four our fan base. They’ve gone through hell and back. . . . And for them to be able to enjoy nights like this, yeah, it makes me happy."
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WATCH | Louisville’s Chris Mack, on the *real* reason he hadn’t been starting freshman David Johnson …
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Kenny Payne now has the highest February winning percentage in University of Louisville basketball history
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3 years
Kentucky was ranked No. 10 in the preseason poll. Failed to get to 10 victories.
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Louisville will pay Pat Kelsey $2.3 million to coach the next three seasons, and it will pay Kenny Payne $2.5 million not to coach.
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Van Lith: "I don't want to speak about what happened at the end because I don't want to dim down the fact that we played really well. I have all the respect in the world for Texas. No hard feelings. ... At the end of the day I'm going to let it go."
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Dez Tell: "At halftime, Jeff Brohm got us hyped. . . . I ain't going to lie. It was crazy. Felt like a dream. I felt like we were going to win regardless."
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3 years
In honor of the @LouisvilleMBB victory of Kentucky, @ChurchillDowns has lit its famous Twin Spires red
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3 years
A couple of Louisville football legends: Michael Bush and Lamar Jackson
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2 years
The @UofLWBB didn't show up to talk about being underdogs, but were asked about it several times at Thursday's Final Four news conference. Hailey Van Lith and Jeff Walz responded this way . . .
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6 years
CORRECTION: Yesterday I posted a caption on a Reggie Bonnafon picture holding up two fingers, saying he was signifying his second TD of the game. It was actually the conclusion of 5-0-2. He does that.
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Louisville’s offensive line just came back out onto the field with Dwayne Ledford and some family to take a group picture. Then Javian Hawkins came sprinting out, game ball still in hand, to join them …
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3 years
One additional note for @UofLWBB on TV. It’s regional final loss to Stanford (on cable) outdrew all four men’s regional finals (on broadcast TV) in the Louisville market.
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2 years
Not to trivialize serious issues. But think about this: From the date of the crime to acquittal, the OJ Simpson trial took 465 days. Date of indictment to conviction, Adidas executives 425 days. Louisville's NCAA case since that day is at 1,584 days. The process is the penalty.
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If you haven’t been to a Louisville women’s game, Jeff Walz doesn’t go to the locker room for a post game talk. He gathers the team at midcourt, talks to them there, sends them around the arena to sign autographs, and he does his radio interview on the PA for fans who stay, all
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If I were U of L, I'd ask for the Mayo Bowl and take another crack at Kentucky. Would make bowl season more interesting for everybody around here, I think.
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Ray Davis on throwing the “L’s down” at Jack Harlow: “If you ask Kaiya Sheron and Deuce Hogan, I said if I get in the end zone I’m going to throw the L’s down in that guy’s face. . . . He wasn’t anywhere around. . . . It’s always nice when the stars are around to ruin their
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Lamar Jackson takes a look at his name during his number retirement at Cardinal Stadium
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CRONIN: “We’ve got to let that shot go. … I sit in Coach Wooden’s seat. When you sit in his seat, you have to channel the things he taught. True greatness is giving your best effort. What else can I ask from those guys? I can’t ask for anything more. … "
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Louisville’s Lamar Jackson on why he is choosing to play in the @taxslayerbowl
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It is testament to the place of basketball in Kentucky that the governor recommend that churches cancel weekend services to prevent the spread of COVID-19, but the state’s high school basketball Sweet 16 remains untouched.
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The latest on Jody Demling (from Angela’s FB). More good news! Inflammation down more. Vent oxygen at 40% and PEEP down to 6%. They will slowly begin to adjust his meds to wake him up over the next 2 days, in preparation for taking him off the ventilator. Keep praying!
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Glad to see the family of @patkelsey making themselves at home. I do hope Louisville will be a great experience for all of them.
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6 years
Every Louisville player to play four years under @CoachJeffWalz has reached a Final Four
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Only two Louisville quarterbacks have beaten Florida State in Tallahassee
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Brohm asked if it means anything to take two different Power 5 programs to conference championship games: "Well, I did not know that. So you know what, that does mean a lot, to be quite honest with you. You know, being at Purdue, we worked hard to win games, and to get to the Big
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Special to see this sight, whenever it happens, but especially in Freedom Hall …
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The press conference is over. Work awaits. But Pat Kelsey took his first task as Louisville basketball coach by storm, it seems like. Thoughts?
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Virginia football player Perris Jones has walked out of Frazier Rehab Institute after a harrowing injury left him motionless on the L&N Stadium field in a Nov. 9 game against Louisville. After spinal surgery and three weeks of rehab, his father Stevie said, “He was wheeled in,
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2 years
Angel McCoughtry Court in Shively Park is now open. A beautiful addition, and a great gesture from Angel and Adidas
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Donovan Mitchell pregame
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5 years
Two years ago tonight: Lamar Jackson won the Heisman Trophy
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2 years
It should be noted, Tyra has voluntarily reduced his own salary twice, has twice bypassed scheduled $150,000 bonuses due him, donated $100,000 of his own money for an ethics in business leadership program at the school and donated land for The Alley tailgate area to the school.
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Everybody stop and say a quick prayer for Florida’s Keyontae Johnson, who collapsed on the court early in today’s game against Florida State. He is in critical but stable condition at a Tallahassee hospital.
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Malik Williams says he will remain at Louisville.
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One more quick update from Jody Demling’s wife, Angela. Supplemental oxygen now at 40 percent (lower than this morning, which is good), vent setting is still 8 percent. Other tests keep improving (slowly). She, on the other hand, is exhausted. Prayers and support mean everything.
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Your daily Jody Demling update — from his wife Angela on Facebook, they’re keeping all his vent settings where they were. He continues to make slow progress. Vitals are good. The best news is all the inflammation is beginning to go down. Keep praying!
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Two Louisville legends — @MONSTATREZZ and @Katie_George05
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Face in the crowd at the Louisville Basketball Tipoff Luncheon — guy looks like he’s ready to coach right now
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CONGRATS to Louisville coach Jeff Walz on his 400th career win. The Louisville women beat Boston College 63-53 today, their 15th straight win, which is the longest winning streak in D-1 (photo via @UofLWBB )
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Petrino: “We needed this win for our fans, for the University of Louisville and the city of Louisville."
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Stoops: “The SEC will prepare you for anybody. We’ll leave it at that.”
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Jeff Walz to an official just now: “It’s amazing to me how you all will never admit you missed one. There’s a jumbotron up there. The picture is amazing.”
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A spring without a Derby
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Good night, Twitter. Thought for tonight — today marked the fewest COVID-19 deaths reported in the US in any day since March 29, and the fourth straight day of declines. May that trend continue.
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Hard to sit through these Trump news conferences. Partially because Trump is Trump. And partially because all these questions reporters pat themselves on the back over are not about getting substance but about getting a sound bite to let talking heads pontificate over later.
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Sign truck outside th KFC Yum! Center for Louisville’s home finale against Virginia
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Lamar Jackson will sit out the fourth quarter. Just like old times.
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3 years
Louisville football announces it will retire Lamar Jackson’s will have his No. 8 jersey number on Nov. 13 during a ceremony at the Cardinals’ home game versus Syracuse. It will be only the second number the program has retired, along with Johnny Unitas’ No. 16.
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ESPN announces launch of ESPNZ. It will only air replays of the Zion Williamson 360.
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2 years
For those of you joining us who are casual followers of University of Louisville news, there's something you should understand. It only looks completely dysfunctional because it is.
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Every, single Louisville player, when asked what the program needs moving forward, answered with the word, “discipline."
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2 years
The Cardinal Has Landed ... a few photos. Denny Crum, Kenny Payne, Wade Houston, Josh Heird.
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