This past Monday, Mark Stoops rolled in with swagger. Jeff Brohm looked like he’d been demoted to assistant chess coach.
What was supposed to be a hospital ward of a football game — the battered vs. the bruised, the limping vs. the listing — turned into something closer to a field clinic for the Cardinals in front of a crowd of 50,634 in L&N Stadium.
When Kentucky and Louisville limp into Saturday’s annual rivalry finale in L&N Stadium, the story isn’t just bragging rights, it’s bandwidth. Both teams have depleted rosters. This game is about who has the most left, on the roster and in the tank.
All four scholarship running backs are out with injuries heading into Saturday’s noon rivalry showdown with Kentucky.
Kentucky coach Mark Stoops is out of duct tape, out of defensive backs, and almost out of calendar. But he’s not out of this rivalry.
For the University of Louisville football team, the stars have gone missing one by one, like candles flickering out in a November wind. No, wait. Like leaves falling in an autumn breeze.
The old rivals stumble in like a pair of bar brawlers who forgot what they were fighting about.
Testifying before the Interim Joint Committee on Economic Development & Workforce Investment on Thursday, the topic was revenue sharing and NIL.
The SEC finally pulled the trigger on a nine-game football schedule. Does that mean the end of Kentucky's annual football clash with rival Louisville?
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WDRB) -- What was a frustrating and rather ho-hum game visually gave me a bit of a gift in the final quarter.