If you have been on ESPN.com today, you may have seen Teddy Bridegwater right there on the front page and the main story. Jeffri Chadiha wrote about how although he was picked after Blake Bortles and Johnny Manziel, Teddy may actually be set up for more success in the NFL. He doesn’t have the pressure…
Month: May 2014
The Minnesota Viking announced they have officially signed our guy Teddy Bridgewater. Some (not all) of the terms of Teddy’s deal was released earlier today on Twincities.com: “Bridgewater, taken with the No. 32 selection overall from Louisville, is in line to receive a signing bonus of $3.3 million and his four-year deal would be worth $6.85…
Projected Field of 64: May 20 Story via Perfect Game Writer: Kendall Rogers • NATIONAL SEEDS: The race for the final couple of national seeds was rather difficult to sort out this week, particularly the final national seed, which we gave the edge to Mississippi despite a good case from South Carolina….
PRESS RELEASE LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Louisville sophomore righthander Kyle Funkhouser has earned an invitation to compete for a roster spot on the USA Baseball Collegiate National Team. A native of Oak Forest, Ill., Funkhouser is slated to participate in the team’s training camp starting June 19, while the final 24-man roster will be…
PRESS RELEASE WEST WINDSOR, N.J. – The 17th-ranked Louisville rowing team had a landmark performance at Sunday’s inaugural American Athletic Conference Championship sweeping all six grand finals and all six time trials to clinch the first conference title in program history while also earning the first NCAA Championship berth. The Cardinals scored 158…
With the recent news that running back Senorise Perry has signed with the Chicago Bears, that now makes 9 former Louisville Cardinals from last year’s team that are on NFL teams right now. Here is the tweet from Brad Biggs, who covers the Bears for the Chicago Tribune. #Bears have signed Louisville RB Senorise Perry…
Press release from UofL: LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Top-seeded and fifth-ranked Louisville will open the American Athletic Conference Baseball Championship on Thursday at 3 p.m., ET against No. 8 seed Memphis at Bright House Field in Clearwater, Fla. The Cardinals (43-13, 19-5 American) will continue their Pool A schedule on Friday at 3 p.m., against No. 5…
ESPN.com’s David Hale wrote this blog that talked about the top returning football players in the ACC for the 2014 season according to the numbers. Louisville players were not included in the actual lists, but they were certainly mentioned if they would have been a top returner. I may have just confused you with that,…
Louisville football target Kalin Heath updated CSZ on his recruitment Saturday night. Heath is from Cartersville, Georgia and is listed on the major recruiting sites as a 3-star prospect. About two weeks ago, it was almost a sure thing that Heath was going to commit to the Cards. After speaking with Coach Petrino, he decided that…
2015 SF Ray Smith will take an official visit to Louisville on Sept. 27th per this Mike Hughes tweet: Elite SF Ray Smith informs http://t.co/noweHb95FZ he will make official visit to Louisville Sept. 27. Cards host Wake Forest that weekend. — Mike Hughes (@CrdConfidential) May 17, 2014 As you seen here on CSZ Smith announced…
We all know just what type of player Teddy Bridgewater is and now the state of Minnesota is finding that out as well. In a recent twincities.com article Viking’s coach Mike Zimmer and fellow teammates had many great things to say about the former Louisville Cardinal. “Since I’ve been here, he’s been persistent,” said tackle…
Deng Adel Class of 2015 6’7 190 lbs Bradenton, Florida College List: Louisville, UConn, Florida, LSU, SMU, Virginia Tech ESPN: 4-star player. 11th best player in Florida. 247 Sports: 4-star player. 3rd best player in Florida. Rivals: 3-star player. If you put stock into the Crystal Ball predictions on 247sports.com, you better get to…
If there is one WNBA team that the city of Louisville can follow and root for, it’s definitely the Atlanta Dream. After all, they do have two of the best UofL women’s basketball players of all time on their team: Angel McCoughtry and now Shoni Schimmel. In the season opener Friday night, they led the…
Former USC quarterback Max Wittek is a name that we have been hearing for months now. He is transferring from Southern California and the main schools he has been considering are Louisville, Texas, and Hawaii. With Louisville and Texas being two of those, obviously this was of interest. Speaking of that, why don’t more kids consider…
There is ALWAYS a story with Johnny Manziel. On draft night, you thought the story was that he slid down the first round so much. Or maybe it was that he still did his “money team” sign after being picked 22nd. Or how about this one: he sent a text to the quarterbacks coach for…
Here is a cool video that the Minnesota Vikings posted on their website. It shows a little behind the scenes stuff before Teddy got drafted, and it shows him meeting some of his coaches. Pretty awesome stuff. Click here to watch the video
Russ Smith talked with Seth Davis today at the NBA Combine. He talks about what kind of player he is, things he showed at Louisville, and how he has grown as a person. What confuses me is that of all the highlights they could show of Russ Smith, they chose the Red-White scrimmages? Ok then!
CBS released the list of the highest paid coaches in College Basketball today and our Rick Pitino came in at number 2. Mike Krzyzewski $9,682,032 (Duke) Rick Pitino $5,758,338 (Louisville) John Calipari $5,511,381 (Kentucky) Bill Self $4,960,763 (Kansas) Billy Donovan $3,905,964 (Florida) Tom Izzo $3,893,954 (Michigan State) Steve Alford $3,473,973 (UCLA) Thad Matta $3,282,000 (Ohio State)…
This is my second day off of only two days in the past 4 months. I’m trying to recover from what the hell I just experienced. I took a leap over Christmas ‘break’ when I saw an ad for the Derby Festival looking for an intern for the 2014 season and completed my junior year…
PRESS RELEASE FROM LOUISVILLE SID KENNY KLEIN: LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Nine University of Louisville athletic teams posted a perfect score in the most recent single-year Academic Progress Rate (APR) data released by the NCAA. The nine UofL sports — including five women’s and four men’s — with a perfect 1000 APR score…