The Big Dance and the season ended for the Cardinals at Rupp Arena this past weekend as they fell 72-69 to Texas A&M in the second round of the NCAA tournament. Freshmen point guard Edgar Sosa, pictured at left, scored a career high 31 points including hitting 15 consecutive free throws.
The national Delta Zeta sorority creed reads that members should offer "understanding and appreciation" to fellow sisters, but what some have labeled a discriminatory dumping at the DePauw University chapter of the sorority has garnered national media attention.
To date, The Cardinal has misquoted countless students at the University of Louisville. Among those, senior engineering major and SGA President Darrell Messer is the most misquoted on campus. Senior marking major Maria Wimsatt, the Speaker of Student Senate, has labeled herself "pissed-off reader," thanks to alleged misrepresentation in this newspaper.
In the world that is the college campus, sometimes the names that appear on homework papers may seem immaterial compared to the brand name on the jeans worn. The distinctive nuances of someone's personality may seem trivial when measured against the deliberate rips and holes of jeans.
The University of Louisville softball team picked up two wins and two losses over the weekend playing two doubleheaders against Western Kentucky University and Eastern Michigan University. Friday, Louisville traveled to Bowling Green to take on the Hilltoppers at WKU.
Freshman nursing student Kim King has lived in Radcliff, Ky. for most of her life. "It's a pretty small town right between Ft. Knox and Elizabethtown and I usually get a funny face when I say that's where I'm from," King said. "Nobody seems to know where it is, or at least the people I talk to.
While most students were lounging on couches, beaches or sleeping in, University of Louisville sophomore jumpers Andre Black and Tone Belt were hard at work. Both athletes took national titles. Black won the triple jump while Belt won the long jump at the NCAA Indoor Championships.
Led by sophomore forward Angel McCoughtry, the Big East player of the year, the Louisville Cardinals women's basketball team won their first NCAA tournament game since 1998. The sixth seeded Cards took down the 11th seeded Brigham Young University by a score of 80-54 after exiting the NCAA tournament in the first round of the previous two years.
Ronald McDonald's big red shoes will hit the hardwood on March 28 for the 30th anniversary of the McDonald's All American Games. The best high school players in the nation will showcase their skills at Freedom Hall for the annual charity event. The week leading up to the main event will feature the high school hoopsters' special visit to the local Ronald McDonald House Charity, a slam-dunk competition, a visit to the Muhammad Ali Center and a photo opportunity where the stars of tomorrow will flip burgers and serve customers.
Wow, was this basketball season a wild ride. University of Louisville basketball went from a program that had no business playing in March to nearly knocking off Texas A&M University for a trip to the Sweet Sixteen. Head coach Rick Pitino, who was being questioned by many people early this year, turned it all around.
