Conservative Musings

You Go, Girls!

I don't usually pay much attention to women's basketball, however, with the University of Louisville women's team in the NCAA Final Four I decided to watch.  The first half was ugly.  The Cards started out missing their first dozen or so shots from the field and Oklahoma roared out to a 16-4 lead.  Amazingly, the Cards were only behind by that margin at the half, but I thought they were pretty much sunk and didn't plan to watch the second half.

A little bit later I turned on the TV just to see how far behind we were.  Lo and behold, we were ahead by 4!  There followed a very exciting game with several ties, a couple of lead changes, and a last second three-point attempt by Oklahoma to try to win the game.  It bounced off the rim and the Cards won their first-ever Final Four game 61-59!  Now they move on to the Championship game against either Connecticut or Stanford.

Go Cards!

--Red

Go Cards!

Congratulations to the University of Louisville Cardinals for getting the #1 seed in the NCAA men's basketball tournament!  Go Cards!

--Red

Louisville #1 Ranked for March Madness

For the 9th year in a row, the Louisville TV market ranked #1 in NCAA basketball viewers.  Sounds like we like good basketball, whether or not the Cardinals are on the schedule.

-Colonel Steve

Cards 89 Cats 75

For the first time since we started this blog, the University of Louisville was able to defeat the University of Kentucky in basketball.  And they did it decisively!  It looked a little more decisive with about eight minutes to play, when we had a 22 point lead, but UK started fouling early and we missed some foul shots down the stretch.  But we hit enough shots to be ahead at the end.

This is the first "Dream Game" for UK's new head coach Billy Gillispie.  I hope he was able to leave the arena before the lynch mob got to him.  UK fans might overlook not winning a national championship (although only for a short period of time -- ask former coach Tubby Smith) but they will not  forgive losing to U of L.

Congratulations, Cards!

--Red

Neat Technology

This past month, for our anniversary, Lady Colonel and I broke down and bought a new television to replace a dying one.  We went all out and bought the Sony Bravia KDL-46V2500 (46 inch LCD, 1080p).  After fiddling with it for awhile, I am now getting the Insight cable local channel high def signals working.

For me, it's just in time to see this Saturday's UofL-UK game on CBS at 4pm.

Seeing that it's a home game for the Cats, and the "gotta win this game at all costs" thinking in Lexington for this game, that means it'll make it closer anyway.

-Colonel Steve

GO CARDS

Much has already been said about tonights UofL - UK football game.  Of course, we still have to say:

GO CARDS!!!!

-Colonel Steve

Another Opinion on the NCAA's Ruling

After the NCAA's move to kick out the Courier-Journal blogger, a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette writer opins on the issue:

It wouldn't surprise me if the Louisville students respond by mass blogging during future games. Would the NCAA decide to empty the seats to enforce the no-blogging policy?

Cool idea.  Maybe my beloved engineering school there could setup everyone's laptops.

-Colonel Steve

NCAA's Bad Press Move

Awhile back, the NCAA started the trend to remove Indian mascots from college sports.  The fighting Irishmen are ok, just not any other nationality or group.

Now comes the NCAA's short-sightedness in kicking out a media blogger (Courier-Journal) at the University of Louisville - Oklahoma State super-regional game.  Personally, I think the NCAA isn't quite up to the times.  Sure, ESPN has rights to the game broadcast, but blogging isn't broadcasting.  It's more in line in this case with the newspaper it was associated with.  If reporters can be there to tell the story for newsprint, they can be there for electronic newsprint as well.

Somehow, someway, I think they may have shot themselves in the foot.

Oh yeah,

GO CARDS!

Great job in making it to the college world series!

-Colonel Steve

Proud of the Cards

Yesterday the men's basketball team lost a close game, 72-69, to Texas A&M in the second round of the NCAA tournament. 

During the first half of the season no one, least of all me, expected the team to even be in the tournament much less make it to the second round.  However, once the team got (mostly) healthy and the freshmen and sophomores started listening to Coach Pitino they turned it around.

There were some costly mistakes made in the game yesterday and a few possessions where they forgot how they won those games at the end of the season.  But overall they played a fine game against a talented team. 

I hope the team will learn the right lessons from this and come back hungry next year!  GO CARDS!

--Red

Go Cards

The latest Louisville - West Virginia football game was ESPN's 2nd most watched football game ever.  Interesting feat, for an area that basketball dominates.

Tonight, I'm sure the most watched TV item in the Louisville area will be the Louisville - Wake Forest game at the Orange Bowl.  Who'll win it?  Of all I've read, I'd agree with Sport's Illustrated's Luke Winn:

As much as this should be a Louisville blowout (on paper, at least), picking Wake to fold would not be intelligent. The Deacons have overcome the loss of their top two quarterbacks and top running back, had their offense revamped in midseason, and still came out on top of the ACC. They're a veteran team with a strong offensive line (behind Steve Vallos and Steve Justice) and their secondary won't get torched by vaunted Cardinals receivers Urrutia and Harry Douglas. So expect Wake to play like Grobe hoped, and use a couple of big misdirection plays on offense to hang with the 'Ville until late in the evening ... but don't expect the Deacs to actually pull off the upset. Louisville by seven.

One thing's for certain...we sure can't afford to look like Michigan in the Rose Bowl.  Captain Ed sums up the Wolvervine's showing.

-Colonel Steve