Make it to the World Series as a player these days and you're guaranteed a year-end bonus, win or lose, in the neighborhood of a quarter million dollars. You'll also get, shipped up from the Louisville Slugger Bat Factory, a batch of custom-made game-ready baseball bats, with "2009 WORLD SERIES" seared into the barrel right under your name. "Except the relief pitchers," says Dan Cohen, curator of the factory's museum. "They're on their own."
Louisville, Colo., may rank first on Money's 2009 list of the Best Places to Live, but Westerville, Ohio, is tops among Facebook fans.
In Jimmy Brown's business, he never knows who - or what - is going to walk through the door. He fondly remembers many of the instruments that have found their way to his Louisville store, Guitar Emporium, over the years: a 1929 acoustic Martin 00-45, a 1954 sunburst Fender Stratocaster with a rare form-fitting case, a 1958 Gibson ES-355 with an original stop tailpiece and a 1959 Cherry Sunburst Gibson Les Paul, to name just a few.
SI.com caught up with Seth Davis, who's serving as a CBS studio analyst during the tournament, to get his impressions of Sunday's regional finals.
SI.com: So what happened to Duke?
MORE RESETS: South | West | East
SI.com caught up with Seth Davis, who's serving as a CBS studio analyst during the tournament, to get his impressions of Sunday's first-round action.
John Barger was devastated when he lost his printing job late last year. With the economy in shambles and many other people looking for work, the Kentucky man says he didn't know where to turn.
If Dr. Jack Kevorkian was overseeing Bubble Watch this season, he'd quickly go out of business. Nobody wants to die.
Now that we're halfway through the conference season, here's a look at the top 10 lessons we've learned so far:
Make it to the World Series as a player these days and you're guaranteed a year-end bonus, win or lose, in the neighborhood of a quarter million dollars. You'll also get, shipped up from the Louisville Slugger Bat Factory, a batch of custom-made game-ready baseball bats, with "2009 WORLD SERIES" seared into the barrel right under your name. "Except the relief pitchers," says Dan Cohen, curator of the factory's museum. "They're on their own."
Louisville, Colo., may rank first on Money's 2009 list of the Best Places to Live, but Westerville, Ohio, is tops among Facebook fans.
In Jimmy Brown's business, he never knows who - or what - is going to walk through the door. He fondly remembers many of the instruments that have found their way to his Louisville store, Guitar Emporium, over the years: a 1929 acoustic Martin 00-45, a 1954 sunburst Fender Stratocaster with a rare form-fitting case, a 1958 Gibson ES-355 with an original stop tailpiece and a 1959 Cherry Sunburst Gibson Les Paul, to name just a few.
SI.com caught up with Seth Davis, who's serving as a CBS studio analyst during the tournament, to get his impressions of Sunday's regional finals.
SI.com: So what happened to Duke?
MORE RESETS: South | West | East
SI.com caught up with Seth Davis, who's serving as a CBS studio analyst during the tournament, to get his impressions of Sunday's first-round action.
John Barger was devastated when he lost his printing job late last year. With the economy in shambles and many other people looking for work, the Kentucky man says he didn't know where to turn.
If Dr. Jack Kevorkian was overseeing Bubble Watch this season, he'd quickly go out of business. Nobody wants to die.
Now that we're halfway through the conference season, here's a look at the top 10 lessons we've learned so far:
Now 67 and living in northeastern Kentucky, the man who played Billy Bear in "48 Hours" and was killed by an alien in "Predator" admits his action-movie days are behind him
How did you get to work today? The average U.S. commute is now about 30 miles and, with gas at a record $3.97 per gallon, that can hit employees' wallets pretty hard. (Oh, you've noticed?)
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Five things we learned while trying to figure out why Tyler Smith disappeared in the second half against Louisville:
Everyone knows about Duke-North Carolina and Louisville-Kentucky. But a new crop of rivalries has emerged in college hoops, fueled by poaching coaches, blue-chip recruits, buzzer-beaters and simple bad blood.
Adapted from Running the Table by L. Jon Wertheim. Copyright © 2007 by L. Jon Wertheim. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Despite the addition of Miami, Virginia Tech and Boston College, the ACC has regressed in recent seasons rather than become one of the elite football conferences. But last week, the conference took a nice step forward on two fronts thanks to Florida State and Maryland. Midnight madness can be put on hold in the hoops-crazy conference, at least temporarily.
As the crow flies, St. Xavier and Trinity Catholic are separated by just five miles within the Louisville city limits. On days when St. Xavier coach Mike Glaser drives along Shelbyville Road, though, Trinity is even closer to his mind.
Following last week's Power Rankings, which included the unfortunate flaw of having Louisville ahead of a Kentucky team it had just lost to, and my subsequent explanation in the Mailbag about how it happened, many of you suggested by e-mail that I was falling victim to the very syndrome I gripe about in Bowls, Polls, and Tattered Souls:Too strict an adherence to preseason perception at the expense of actual, on-field results.
The rivalry between Kentucky and Louisville is different from almost any other in college football, and not just because the two teams have faced off only 19 times. When the series was renewed in 1994 -- it had been discontinued in 1924 after the Wildcats won the first six games by a combined score of 220-0 -- representatives from both schools agreed that, rather than playing at the end of the year as many in-state rivals do, they would instead meet on the first weekend of the season. And thanks to the unique Sunday afternoon time slot the teams have occupied since 2002, it became a staple of ESPN's opening-weekend coverage, providing both teams with invaluable national exposure.
Appalachian State's upset victory over Michigan notwithstanding, most of last weekend's games looked like scrimmages between varsity and JV squads rather than competitive NCAA teams. Yet, there were a number of outstanding performances by NFL prospects that must be mentioned.
Over the past few years, I've noticed few topics elicit more curiosity among college football fans than the possibility of a conference shakeup. Though it's now been four years since the last major realignment craze, I still get e-mails nearly every week asking me whether I think School A might one day join Conference B or whether Conference C might annex Schools D and E.
The Supreme Court strikes a blow against race-based integration, but the decision suggests it may not be fatal
A bitterly divided U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday issued what is likely to be a landmark opinion -- ruling that race cannot be a factor in the assignment of children to public schools.
School officials around the country are asking what to do following a Supreme Court decision rejecting racial integration plans in Seattle and Louisville, Ky.
School officials in Seattle, Washington, said Thursday they know they cannot use "race-specific" rules to increase diversity in their schools but believe they can accomplish similar goals with "race-conscious measures."
The Supreme Court is poised to issue key rulings in two major cases involving diversity in schools.
Their daily journeys take them in opposite directions. Seth Dewboys, 7, and Howard Brim, 16, gladly pay the price for a good education.
A teen who lost her feet in an accident at a Kentucky amusement park has undergone surgery, a park spokeswoman said Friday, while two park operators closed similar rides around the country.
To the untrained ear, the thud meant little.
Louisville, Ky. -- The Los Angeles Open always sounded like an important stop on the PGA Tour. For starters, there's the name. In this age of bottomless sponsors, now it's known as the Nissan Open but in our hearts, it's still the Los Angeles Open -- a city open.
When things were going well -- when he was nailing one big shot after another on his way to a career-high 31 points and leading his sixth-seeded team right to the brink of a second-round NCAA tournament upset of No. 3 seed Texas A&M, Louisville freshman Edgar Sosa looked every bit like a 19-year-old kid having the time of his life. After a three-pointer to put his team up 59-56 with 8:16 left, he turned to the crowd and thumped his chest. He sported a grin from ear-to-ear.
SI.com caught up with Seth Davis, who's serving as a CBS studio analyst during the tournament, to get his impressions of today's tournament action.
The college basketball world was anticipating No.11 seed Stanford -- with it's tandem of 7-footers nicknamed "The Twin Towers" -- to be the spoiler against Louisville. Even Cardinals coach Rick Pitino was open about his concern, stating that aside from the '87 UAB game, when he was the coach at Providence, Stanford was the toughest first-round opponent he'd ever faced.
After nearly blowing a 17-point lead, riding a miraculous buzzer beater into overtime and barely missing one of his own that would have prevented a second, Louisville's Terrence Williams could finally taste victory. After West Virginia's Jamie Smalligan threw the ball away with 1:07 remaining in double overtime and the Cardinals up nine, Williams demonstratively pointed his finger the other way and led the charge back downcourt, temporarily ignoring the fact he still needed to inbound the ball.
In this weeks installment, we have Florida's NCAA tournament-preparation checklist, Acie Law's knuckleball shot and a heavy dose of Craig Ehlo.
He hadn't even accepted the job as Louisville coach, but Steve Kragthorpe was already on the recruiting trail. He was dining with Louisville athletic director Tom Jurich in Oklahoma City to discuss the Cardinals' opening in the wake of Bobby Petrino's sudden departure to the Atlanta Falcons, when Kragthorpe got up from the table and called Brian Brohm on his cell phone.
Rail cars that caught fire after a freight train crash near Louisville, Kentucky, were being allowed to burn throughout the night to destroy hazardous materials inside them, authorities announced Tuesday evening.
The top teams continue to show they're ready to contend for the national title. Candace Parker and her Tennessee teammates certainly looked primed for the postseason in Saturday's win over Connecticut.
MIAMI -- Brian Brohm's final throw of his junior season was made not with a football, but rather an orange, lofted overhand into the damp South Florida night. The toss -- which had an arc resembling a fade pass into a corner of the end zone -- landed a few rows into the heart of the Louisville crowd, on the same side of the field where at game's end, a fan had been holding a sign that read, "BCS: Becoming Champions Step-by-step."
Wake Forest coach Jim Grobe is either a realist or a man who enjoys playing the role of coy Cinderella. On New Year's Day, in his last news conference before facing Louisville's high-powered attack in the Orange Bowl, he said, "You'd just like to see yourself heading into the fourth quarter with a chance."
More than 50 years after the Supreme Court outlawed segregation in public schools, the justices struggled over one controversial outgrowth of that decision Monday.
The region around Bardstown, Ky., with its Kentucky Bourbon Trail, is praised as one of the 1,000 Places to See Before You Die. Paul and Rosanne Jantzen have loved living there for the past 20 years.
The Kentucky Derby may be a horse race (and what a race - it's the oldest continuously running sporting event in the U.S.), but let's be honest. Ask most people what they associate with the Derby and they'll likely say "mint juleps and hats."
No matter which way you see Louisville, you'll make it to the winner's circle. A bumper sticker sums it up perfectly: "I wasn't born in Kentucky, but I got here as fast as I could."
He sits among critics, producers and agents in the darkened theater, looking almost as cowed as the hyperventilating young recruit in his show.
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Doctors in Kentucky have begun preparing a document to be submitted to an ethics panel at the University of Louisville School of Medicine seeking permission to perform a face transplant, the lead researcher in the endeavor told CNN.
The big winner of this year's NCAA men's basketball tournament will be the University of Louisville.
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