Not many players have had a better summer than 2015 SG/PG Donovan Mitchell. The 6’3 guard has seen his stock skyrocket, landing 10 offers alone since June 7. Although Providence has been recruiting him the longest, the Louisville Cardinals appear to be in a very good spot with Mitchell. On Thursday morning, he released his list of…
Month: July 2014
The first USA Today Amway Coaches Poll was released on Thursday afternoon. Not much surprise near the top as Florida State is the top ranked team. The Louisville Cardinals are 11th under “Others Receiving Votes,” essentially meaning they are ranked 36th in this poll. The Miami Hurricanes are two spots ahead of the Cards. Three…
Nobody seems to be giving the Cards much of a chance when Famous Jameis and the Noles come to town but there are some that believe. ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit tweeted this earlier today: “@BlkManNSperrys: the possibility of a L'ville upset over FSU on Oct 30th?" Noles better be ready. I called a Cards upset vs…
Today Mike Huguenin, Bryan Fischer and Chase Goodbread posted the latest in their series of dynamic duos. They have been compiling the best duos at every position by league. (click here for full list) Today’s Position was Wide Receivers. It didn’t take long to see a few familiar faces. Here is the excerpt: This…
Change the game. Why not? The following e-mail (below) went out to UofL football season ticket holders on Wednesday afternoon. Apparently, Kentucky couldn’t sell 5,000 tickets that were allotted to them for the UofL-UK game. Actually, they could only sell about half of them. But the game is November 29, so football season would have…
CBS College Basketball writer Gary Parrish says this will be one of the hardest years to come up with a preseason All-American list. While Parrish said there were many under consideration he did have Louisville’s Montrezl Harrell on his list of five. Gary Parrish’s Preseason All-Americans G Fred VanVleet Wichita St. G Marcus Paige N. Carolina…
Myles Washington, a running back from New Orleans (John Curtis High School) visited UofL on Tuesday and came away very impressed. “The visit was great,” Washington told CSZ. “They (Louisville) are definitely at the top.” Although Washington is only rated as a 2-star player, that is thought to be a little misleading because he plays…
The fine folks at FansCloset.com have their next offer for Louisville fans, just in time for football season! This one is for FREE shipping when you spend over $25 on Cards gear! Let’s be honest, it isn’t that hard to spend $25 when shopping for UofL stuff! Just enter “Football” at checkout for the deal….
Peyton Siva has been waiting on news of where he would land after being cut by the Detroit Pistons a few weeks ago. It looks like he will wait no longer: Peyton Siva has agreed to terms with the Orlando Magic, a source told Yahoo Sports. — Marc J. Spears (@MarcJSpears) July 29, 2014
According to his Instagram, Louisville PF Akoy Agau will undergo surgery today in Philadelphia. The type of surgery remains unknown but we all know surgery of any kind is never great news. Agau drew rave reviews from Coach Pitino for his progress this summer. We hope this is just what Akoy says it is… A…
There are a lot of question marks around this Louisville football team heading into the 2014 season. By the way, the season starts in less than 5 weeks, if you needed a reminder! Anyway, there are things to wonder about like the quarterback spot, playing the 3-4 defense, new coach, new conference, and everything else…
Louisville picked up their 10th commitment for the 2015 class on Monday afternoon. Tim Bonner, an outside linebacker/defensive end from Demopolis, Alabama chose the Cards over Mississippi State and Kentucky. He is listed at 6’5 and 215 lbs. He will likely play both of those positions at UofL. He can play outside linebacker in the…
In this weekly series we are going to let you watch one of the all time Louisville greats, Taquan Dean, doing what he loves to do, play basketball. Over the next 3 weeks I will release footage of former UofL Basketball Graduate Assistant Tim Gray putting Taquan through different workout movements to help evolve and sharpen his craft. In…
By Justin Renck and Steve Rummage: A few weeks ago we started a new weekly series that will update you on where the Cards stand with their top basketball recruiting targets for the class of 2015. We release a new post every Monday and give any updates there may be. Rather than talk about every recruit out there that Louisville has just talked to…
Bobby Petrino and 6 other ACC coaches will appear on ESPN today and go through what they call the “car wash.” Basically that means they will appear on nearly every show ESPN has to offer, from SportsCenter to their talk radio shows. Petrino will be on SportsCenter at 10:20 and 11:20 a.m. ET this morning….
Beginning on Monday July 28, the silos on the University of Louisville’s campus will begin to be demolished. If you travel I-65 often, seeing these silos may be apart of your everyday life. It will certainly be different and much more open when they are gone. I am not really sure how I feel about…
Ok, so you have your special Tom Jurich Maker’s Mark bottle. Heck, maybe you have 3 of them and a Tim Couch bottle! What’s next? Getting Tom’s signature on it of course! Here is the info you need to get your bottle signed. Info from Kenny Klein:
When the Vegas odds came out that Charlie Strong was the 2-1 favorite to land the head coaching job at Texas, I laughed. I said there was no way that would happen. He may leave someday, but Texas is not the place for him. He had turned down Tennessee, we were heading into the ACC,…
When 5 star SG Antonio Blakeney received an offer from UK earlier this month some wondered if Rick Pitino would back off and move on. Today Pitino answered that question with a resounding NO! Pitino was front and center for all three of Blakeney’s games today and the 6’4 SG did not disappoint. Blakeney…