Louisville Baseball is one of the favorites to win the College World Series this year based on all the preseason accolades the team has collected. Numerous reputable college baseball publications have the Cards pegged as their number 1 team nationally heading into the upcoming season. Well, the 2020 Cards picked up another accolade yesterday. The…
Author: Shawn Barbour
Two Cards that have picked up quite a few preseason accolades heading into the 2020 season picked up some more yesterday. Sophomore infielder Alex Binelas and junior starting pitcher Reid Detmers we’re both named Preseason First Team All-Americans by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association. Detmers and Binelas have been named preseason All-Americans by numerous…
Louisville Men’s Basketball has a rich history. Three titles have been won by the Cards over the years, but the first was back in 1980. A team led by senior G and Louisville native Darrell Griffith defeated perennial powerhouse UCLA to win the school’s first championship 59-54. Griffith had guaranteed the team would win the…
Louisville F Jordan Nwora has had a very good year and has, for the most part, met expectations. The 6’7 junior has averaged 19.3 points per game and 7.4 rebounds per game. He’s shooting 46.2% from the field, 43.7% from the three-point line, and 81.1% from the free throw line. His stats, and Louisville’s winning…
Welcome back CardNation, to your weekly recap of all Louisville athletics! What a week it has been right? Between Lamar getting his MVP, Donovan being named an All Star, to our men’s and women’s basketball teams being top 5 in the country, its great to be a Card! Let’s get into it! #10/#19 Swimming and…
Louisville Men’s Basketball went 2-0 again this week. Both wins, Boston College and NC State, were on the road and in convincing fashion. Those wins, coupled with some other teams losing, led to Louisville being ranked in the top 5 in both polls this week. AP Poll Louisville moved up one spot to 5th this…
Louisville rapper B Simm is known for his song, “You Don’t Want These Cards.” Now, he has released a new video for his song and I must say it is quite spectacular. There are a number of cameos from former Cards spanning a couple of generations. The most prominent cameo is by former UofL Hall…
Louisville Athletics and Louisville Athletic Director Vince Tyra want fans who have football season tickets to renew early. So, to facilitate this, they are offering some incentives to those fans who do so. Throughout the month of February, fans who renew their tickets and either pay for them in full or enter into a payment…
On Tuesday evening, the University of Louisville softball team announced via Twitter their new jerseys for the 2020 season. There are new white and black jerseys that the Cards will dawn. As they call them, “icy white” and “blacked out.” The white jerseys are white and red with no black at all. On the front,…
The new men’s college basketball polls were released yesterday and Louisville finds itself holding steady in both polls. The are number 6 in the AP Poll and number 5 in the USA TODAY Coaches Poll. This, after a week where they defeated a feisty Georgia Tech team 68-64 and overwhelmed Clemson 80-62. That Clemson team…
Dale Earnhardt. Prince. Michael Jackson. These are bigger than life figures that most people, regardless if they followed the particular field the figure was in, remember where they were when they found out the news of their death. I remember all vividly (although admittedly I was only a kid when Dale died). Yesterday, on an…
Louisville Head Coach Chris Mack announced junior C Malik Williams is questionable for Saturday’s game against Clemson today. According to Coach Mack, Williams suffered a bruised knee in the first half of Wednesday’s win over Georgia Tech. This will be a significant blow for the Cardinals heading into this Clemson matchup if he can’t play….
Louisville Men’s Basketball will be wearing special uniforms on Saturday when they host the Clemson Tigers. These uniforms are to honor the 1975 Final Four Cards that took eventual National Champ and 70s dynasty UCLA to the brink in a 75-74 loss. However, the uniforms aren’t really the story here. The 1975 team will be…
Louisville Football lost Inside Linebackers Coach Dale Jones recently when he decided to return to Appalachian State to be their Defensive Coordinator. So, Scott Satterfield had to find a replacement for the experienced coach. He went younger with an up-and-coming assistant coach from Southern Miss in Derek Nicholson. Nicholson is actually familiar with Louisville as…
Louisville Men’s Basketball has won 3 straight games and a huge reason they have won their last two is the emergence of freshman G David Johnson. The Louisville native has played two great games off the bench for Coach Chris Mack’s squad. Against Pittsburgh, the 6’5 Johnson scored 11 points, grabbed 3 rebounds, and dished…
Louisville Men’s Basketball is on a 3 game winning streak and are starting to look like the Final Four contender we all believed they would be. They just played 3 straight on the road and beat everyone in their path beginning with Notre Dame the Saturday before last. This past week, they defeated a game…
Well folks, its the start of the new year, and with that, comes the return of Cards in the NBA. Your one-stop place to find out how your favorite Cardinals Forever are faring in the National Basketball Association. We’ve got quite a few players to get through, so let’s get this started! *Stats are accurate…
We are back for TWICA! Your weekly review of all the going-ons in our wonderful Cardinal Athletic programs! Without further adiu, let’s get this wrap-up started! Women’s Tennis (2-0) Our Women’s Tennis team had a double header this past week, a dominating performance from all involved, winning the first part of the double header 7-0,…
Louisville Baseball’s 2020 season is just around the corner. After a great season last year that culminated in the team making it the farther than it ever had in Omaha, the Cardinal 9 are ranked preseason Number 1 by all the college baseball publications. With that said, Louisville announced its 2020 team captains. Danny Oriente, Zach…
Louisville Baseball is very highly thought of on the eve of the 2020 collegiate baseball season. Two respected college baseball publications, Collegiate Baseball Newspaper and Perfect Game, both picked the Cards as the number 1 team in the preseason. Now another respected publication, D1Baseball, has chosen the Cards as their preseason number 1. The preseason…