BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – I hadn’t covered a basketball game at Western Kentucky University for more than 20 years, which is far too long considering all the friends I’ve made at the university over the years and all the great times I’ve had watching the Hilltoppers since the days of Uncle Ed Diddle.
So it would […]

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This is the unofficial kickoff of the “Ashley Judd for U.S. Senate” campaign for 2010. In the past few weeks, she has foregone her movie career to tackle some weighty issues. Personally, I think she makes a lot of sense, not that the successor to Jim Bunning needs to be a mental giant.
First she took […]

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One personnel move. One attitude change.  One light bulb going on in somebody’s skull. That’s how close the University of Louisville is to becoming a serious national championship contender. Every game, you think the missing ingredient is going to reveal itself. But it hasn’t, so far, and time is growing short.
Back in the 1980-’81 season, […]

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Now that our state legislators have repeatedly failed to heed our thoroughbred industry’s very real and very serious call for help, they have turned their attention to our other signature industry to see if they can damage it. The movement to tax a distilled spirits industry that – like the thoroughbred industry – already is […]

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If I’m the president or athletics director at Georgia, and I hear that Bob Knight wants to talk with me about the Bulldog basketball coaching job, I’m on a private plane to wherever Knight is quicker than you can say, “Woof! Woof! How ‘bout them Dawgs?” And I’ll do whatever it takes to bring NCAA […]

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