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December 2009 Blog Posts (58)

Louisville taverns serving Edgar Sosa and John Wall drinks for rivalry

Local bars in the Louisville area are serving drinks named Edgar Sosa's and John Wall's.

If you have not had an Edgar Sosa, they are awesome.

After drinking a couple Edgar Sosa's at the bar, a UK fan came in dressed to the teeth in his UK gear, orders a John Wall drink, and the bartender just hands the guy an empty glass.

After looking at the empty glass for a moment, the UK fan… Continue

Added by Shannon Ruffra on December 31, 2009 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Suspect who vandalized the new Louisville Downtown Arena apprehended!

UK Guard John Wall

The culprit who vandalized the new Louisville Arena has been apprehended. UK guard John Wall, with a history of a fetish of socializing in vacant buildings and cheating before even touching a college basketball court, has been captured in this image defacing the new Louisville Downtown Arena.

RIVALRY… Continue

Added by Shannon Ruffra on December 30, 2009 at 5:47pm — No Comments

Welcome back Keisha! Lady Cards roll over IPFW, 91-62

Sonja Sykes

21 Ashley Rainey 6-2 P FR Bowling Green, Ky. (Warren East HS)

The sore thumb and all, Ashley Rainey got in a few minutes in the Cardinal romp.

Welcome back, Keisha Hines. 19 points and narrowly missing a double-double tonight, as Louisville used a… Continue

Added by Shannon Ruffra on December 30, 2009 at 2:00pm — No Comments

UK Ilk Vandalizes Louisville's New Downtown Arena

WHAS 11 Video Footage

Well, just when you start to think that some of our rival UK fans can not stoop any lower in classlessness than they already are, the UK ilk breaks another plateau.

Now some UK fan(s) have defaced our new Louisville Downtown Arena with… Continue

Added by Shannon Ruffra on December 30, 2009 at 2:30am — 1 Comment

Lady Cards face IPFW back in Freedom Hall tonight after 16 days

Sonja Sykes

After a week off, the Lady Cards return to action Tuesday evening at 7 p.m. hosting the Indiana Purdue- Fort Wayne Mastodons. The name of their coach is Chris Paul. The Mastodons will need the New Orleans Hornets' Chris Paul to play for them tonight, if they hope to pull out a victory against Louisville.

The Mastodons did score 93 points against Indiana Tech… Continue

Added by Shannon Ruffra on December 29, 2009 at 3:42pm — No Comments

USF Scouting Report: Bulls missing quality depth and interior star Gilchrist

The USF Bulls come into Freedom Hall, and tip-off the the first Big East Conference game for the Cardinals. With the hoopla circulating around on the USF message boards, they feel like this is a very winnable game for them, and that we are 'down". But are we so "down", that the Bulls' fans can be overlooking us?

The answer is no. They have the following five players who play major minutes, and are productive in the box score. Now… Continue

Added by Shannon Ruffra on December 29, 2009 at 2:00am — No Comments

CD Gridiron Playoff Challenge Louisville Group - FREE ENTRY, $30 PRIZE TO THE WINNER!

Fanscloset.com Louisville Shop

I created a group on ESPN.com, for the Gridiron Playoff Challenge. To the winner of our group, goes a $30 Fanscloset.com Store Credit, to redeem for whatever merchandise you choose!

Do you have what it takes to be an elite NFL… Continue

Added by Shannon Ruffra on December 28, 2009 at 2:24am — No Comments

Strong to stay at Louisville, Meyer status changed to leave of absence at Florida

Looks like Strong is staying with The Ville, and everything is business as usual.

Cardinal fans, put your hands together......

Urban Meyer will remain Florida's football coach

Less than 24 hours after announcing his resignation because of…

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Added by Shannon Ruffra on December 27, 2009 at 3:52pm — No Comments

LIVE CHAT FOR RADFORD GAME @ LOUISVILLE GAME!

LIVE CHAT FOR RADFORD @ LOUISVILLE GAME

Added by Shannon Ruffra on December 27, 2009 at 12:57pm — No Comments

Radford Scouting Report: Samuels and Jennings prepare for HUGE "Art" test

45 Artsiom Parakhouski

Height: 6-11

Weight: 260

Class: Senior

Hometown: Minsk, Belarus

2008-09 POSTSEASON HONORS:

Big South Player of the Year

First-Team All-Conference

Big South Tournament MVP

Big South All-Tournament Team

Times Dispatch First-Team All-State

NABC District 3 Second… Continue

Added by Shannon Ruffra on December 27, 2009 at 6:30am — No Comments

Will Strong stay at Louisville with Meyer leaving Florida?

Urban Meyer is leaving Florida, so where does that leave us with Strong?

Urban Meyer resignation stuns ESPN commentators

Urban Meyer’s resignation tonight astonished the commentators on ESPN. “I’m completely surprised by it,” Lou Holtz…

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Added by Shannon Ruffra on December 27, 2009 at 4:00am — 2 Comments

Morgan Park star Blackshear commits to Louisville for 2011 with Video Showcae!

#34 Wayne Blackshear

Wayne Blackshear | SG

ESPNU Super 60

Hometown Chicago, IL

High School Morgan Park High School

Height 6'5"

Weight… Continue

Added by Shannon Ruffra on December 26, 2009 at 9:00am — No Comments

Strong confims Harrell and Salmon!

From Charlie Strong minutes ago:

"Tyler Harrell and Randy Salmon have joined our football program. Harrell transfer from Iowa, while Salmon is JC transfer."

Added by Shannon Ruffra on December 23, 2009 at 2:54pm — No Comments

Brian Brohm to play with the big men on Sunday in Hot Lanta @ 1PM!

Brian Brohm

QB #4

Years: 2

Age: 24

Hometown: Louisville, KY

Height: 6-3

Weight: 223

College: Louisville

It appears as if our hometown hero, Brian Brohm, is going to get to captain the Buffalo Bills at QB this Sunday, on the road at the Atlanta Falcons. Brian… Continue

Added by Shannon Ruffra on December 23, 2009 at 2:47pm — 2 Comments

Pitino suspends Jennings, Spin cycle hits overdrive

Paul Sykes

What we have here, is a failure to communicate...

I guess the classic line from "Cool Hand Luke" comes into play here. Without the benefit of details on the suspension, except for a carefully worded "unspecified violation of team rules" ol' T.J. finds himself back in the doghouse with Rover. I guess he'll have to write an 1000 word essay, or find… Continue

Added by Shannon Ruffra on December 23, 2009 at 11:00am — No Comments

Harper steps up HUGE for Lady Cards, Injuries continue to hinder Walz

Sonja Sykes

1 Shelby Harper 5-4 G FR Scottsville, Ky. (Allen County Scottsville)

Jeff Walz shuffled the starting lineup for the Lady Cards Tuesday night at New Hampshire and Shelby Harper, a walk on freshman guard from… Continue

Added by Shannon Ruffra on December 23, 2009 at 10:52am — 1 Comment

Big East expansion and conference raiding - What is best for the Big East?

Paul Sykes

Is this Rutgers fan expressing the Scarlet Knights opinion of the Big East?

We've heard it all, and read the guesses. Yes, the Big 10 is going hunting for a twelfth member, and they could be setting their sights on the Big East to raid. The Big 12 watches nervously from the West. Notre Dame turns a deaf… Continue

Added by Shannon Ruffra on December 23, 2009 at 10:00am — No Comments

Cards Preseason Top 20, Coach Williams STACKED with Pitchers

27 Dean Kiekhefer LHP L/L 6-0 165 JR Louisville, Ky. (Oldham County)

Cards getting preseason respect pub in the national polls!

Even though the article below does not name him, we get Kiekhefer back, and I am predicting him to make an impact this season on our pitching roster,… Continue

Added by Shannon Ruffra on December 22, 2009 at 8:00am — No Comments

Louisville creeping back up into the rankings!

In the new December 21st ESPN/USA Today Poll, there is Rick Pitino and his Louisville Cardinals creeping back up into the rankings, in a 3-way tie for #50!

With three games on the horizon which I predict will be wins for Pitino's 502 Mafia before going into Rupp Arena and the highly anticipated #3 Kentucky game January 2nd, hopefully our Cards can… Continue

Added by Shannon Ruffra on December 21, 2009 at 9:25pm — No Comments

Monday, December 21 Weekly Basketball Outlook and Review

Big East Sagarin Ratings 12 21 09

The mighty BEAST goes 17 - 4 for the week of December 14th - 20th, and is rated the #2 overall strongest conference, with the ACC coming in #1 this week again.

Louisville jumps 22 spots in the Sagarin from #87 last week, to #65 this… Continue

Added by Shannon Ruffra on December 21, 2009 at 6:48am — No Comments