CSZ teams up with FansCloset.com!

We are happy to announce that fanscloset.com is now an official sponsor of CardinalSportsZone.com! Be sure to check out the site and get your Louisville Cardinals merchandise for great prices! Here is their mission statement: A website dedicated to college fans who support Kentucky college sports teams. Specializing in the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville college…

Walter Camp Watch List

Today the last of the award watch lists are released. Todays list is the Walter Camp award watch list. This award is presented to the nation’s most outstanding player by the Walter Camp Football Foundation. It is the college equivalent to the NFL MVP award. The Cards have landed 14 people on the 15 lists…

Doak Walker Watch List

You can best believe this has been the most eventful off season in CardNation history as far as the watch lists are concerned. Today the Doak Walker award watch list came out for the best running back in America. The Cards land 2 on this list today RB Dominique Brown and RB Senorise Perry both…

Davey O’Brien Award Watch List

Todays award watch list is the Davey O’Brien award watch list. The Davey O’Brien Memorial Trophy was presented annually to the most outstanding player in the Southwestern states of Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. Four years later the award was expanded nationally in scope and limited to quarterback, the primary position of our namesake. The…

Butkus And Lombardi Watch Lists

The Butkus and Lombardi watch lists were revealed today for the 2013 college football season. The Butkus award is given to a player who is recognized as the best of the best linebackers in America. The Lombardi award goes annually to the college football lineman — offense or defense — who, in addition to outstanding…

Coop vs Krags (The Debate)

Cooper V Kragthorpe Which Was Worse?      I was checking my Twitter routinely yesterday as I always do and I seen an interesting tweet from @KVille85. It serves as the inspiration for today’s story,Thanks! The debate was basically that Ron Cooper was the worst coaching era in UofL football. I for one disagree immensely. It…

Cardinal Pulse 6/24

     CardNation, join myself, Steve (@Stiz_502) and Jon Hancock (@JonKYSportsco) for the June episode of The Cardinal Pulse. This months episode features 2 of my favorite people to ever represent the University of Louisville in any fashion. Former teammate of mine Roman Oben will be on the show to discuss the upcoming football season and…

Jaquan Lyle Update

by Jeremy Wahman      Jaquan Lyle is ranked as one of the top basketball recruits in the class of 2014 and he’s a 5 star player. So there’s no shock that the recruiting world is waiting to see where he selects. This afternoon via his Twitter (@JMamba5) he announced that at 5pm he would cut…

Recruiting Can Be Deceiving

   by Jeremy Wahman      Recruiting in college football is a funny game. There are multiple expected commits/decommits, transfers and those pesky recruiting rankings you can find everywhere. There is one set of rankings for everything. I am writing this blog today CardNation because you have inspired me. You have inspired me to tell you, much as Justin…