Staff Report The Louisville Cardinal Over the weekend the University of Louisville women's basketball team swept through the Cardinal Classic, defeating Dayton, Winthrop and Memphis. On Friday, the Cards handed the Dayton Flyers their first loss for their season opener, 81-54.
A new movie hit theaters this weekend with more than the normal punch. "Borat!," a movie created by British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen of "Da Ali G Show," opened to both laughs and criticisms. The movie stars Borat Sagdiyev, a fictional journalist from Kazakhstan.
Student Public Interest Research Groups are running a campaign against the college textbook industry in an effort to make prices more fair and affordable. The campaign calls out the publishers and accuses them of inflating prices beyond necessity. According to a recent report from InsideHigherEd.
The University of Louisville kept their national championship hopes alive on Thursday as they took down conference rival West Virginia 44-34. Junior Brian Brohm threw for over 300 yards for the eighth time in his career, as the Cards turned in a complete effort.
I went to a party last week. There were drinks, appetizers and good friends. But it wasn't a birthday, a bachelor party or any of the normal fun things that we are accustomed to doing. It was a going away party for a friend. He's not moving for a job or going away to school, he's going back to Iraq.
Polling locations will be open across the nation for the 2006 midterm elections today. Many students and faculty at the University of Louisville will cast ballotts before the polls in Jefferson County close at 6 p.m. Dr. Jasmine Farrier, a political science professor at U of L, said, "The election is exciting, better drama than anything else in entertainment and sports right now.
Maurice Urrutia is just like the average University of Louisville freshman. In his downtime he hangs out at Unitas Tower, he works a part-time job to pay the bills and he studies like crazy hoping to pass all of his classes. Then again the average freshman doesn't stand 6-foot-4 at 190 lbs and hit like a freight train, have a room filled with trophies and awards from high school football grandeur, have a superstar brother who projects as a future first round draft pick in the NFL and they most definitely don't have a realistic chance of playing professional football like Maurice Urrutia does.
For the second consecutive week, the No. 4 Louisville Cardinals will take on an undefeated conference foe that is highly ranked in the BCS standings on national television. This time, Louisville will travel to Piscataway, N.J. to take on one of the most surprising and intriguing stories in all of college football this season, the No.
Volleyball extends streak to 10 in a row Women's volleyball extended their winning streak to 10 as they took down West Virginia and Pittsburgh over the weekend. Against West Virginia, Louisville started slow but dug themselves out of an early deficit to win game one.
For campaigners across the country, this week will decide whether months of hard work paid off. For the rest of us, this week will finally provide some relief from the inundation of political ads. Don't get me wrong. I'm a political news junkie. I just can't stand to watch anymore meaningless negative ads.
