Column: The best football games of the 2012-13 season
By Xavier Bleuel– Louisville vs. North Carolina After cruising to two victories over inferior talent against Kentucky and Missouri State, Louisville had it’s first test of the season when North Carolina out of the ACC came into town. Leading 36-7 at halftime behind quarterback Teddy Bridgewater and up by 25 early in the fourth quarter, [...]
By Noah Allison– Big East champions, Big East Offensive Player of the Year in quarterback Teddy Bridgewater, Sugar Bowl Champions and all with only a handful of seniors. The 2012-2013 Louisville Cardinals football team was special; the 2013-2014 squad will be scary. Last year’s squad came into the season with expectations of a Bowl Championship [...]
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By Sam Draut– Men’s Basketball NCAA National Champions The University of Louisville men’s basketball team enters the 2013-14 season as the defending National Champions. A team that set the school record with 35 wins in a single season returns three starters, 75 percent of their scoring, 72 percent of their rebounding, and 72 percent of [...]
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By Randy Whetstone Jr.– After a remarkable run to win a national championship, the University of Louisville men’s basketball will build a team to hopefully enhance its chances to reach a third final four in a row for the 2013-14 season. Cardinal fans wiped their foreheads in relief after junior guard Russ Smith opted out of [...]
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By Xavier Bleuel– The University of Louisville women’s tennis team escaped a close call by DePaul on Sunday, April 14 at the Bass-Rudd Tennis Center to maintain its unblemished record at home with a 4-3 win in the season finale. “This was a great win. The best win of the year,” said U of L [...]
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By Noah Allison– At the beginning of the year if you had told sophomore guard Kevin Ware how popular he would be by the end of the year, he would have said “No way.” But Ware has become an international inspiration given his heroic handling of his injury on the sideline of the Elite Eight [...]
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By Noah Allison– Two decades ago this city looked at Coach Pitino as an entirely different human being, maybe the worst kind: the head coach of the University of Kentucky. He won his first national championship in 1996 while coaching at UK. Now, almost 20 years later, he has become the first coach to win [...]
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By Xavier Bleuel– Sara Hammond came out with a quick three pointer and Louisville jumped out an early four point lead in the first half but Connecticut’s 19-0 run extended their lead to 29-14 at the 8:48 mark in the first period. This was too much to overcome for the Lady Cards as UConn (35-4) [...]
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By Sam Draut– The University of Louisville women’s basketball team’s magical tournament run ended in the NCAA National Championship game with a 93-60 loss to the UConn Huskies. The 29-9 Cardinals lost to the all too familiar foe Tuesday night in New Orleans. Louisville is 0-13 against UConn since joining the Big East, including a [...]
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By Xavier Bleuel– The Louisville Cardinals’ defense has much to improve looking forward to in their last season in the Big East. The Cardinal defense under-performed in 2012, finishing 49th in stopping the run, and in the year prior, dropped 39 spots from 10 in the country. The one bright spot in the defense was [...]
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