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Louisville Cardinals coach Chris Mack is heading into the 2019-20 college basketball season with one of the best group of freshmen in the country. Having left the comfy confines of the Xavier Musketeers for a then-embedded in scandal Louisville program, he’s done a more than stellar since taking over for Rick Pitino. Plenty of it […]

ESPN college basketball bracketologist Joe Lunardi has released his Oct. 3 bracketology for the 2020 NCAA Tournament, with some familiar teams leading the way with No. 1 seeds. Michigan State, Louisville, Florida, and Kansas are at the top of the seeding list, and all four teams have national title expectations heading into the season. The […]

When the FBI began to investigate college basketball, with the Louisville Cardinals in the organization’s cross hairs, it was assumed it could potentially result in the death of one of the sport’s biggest and best programs. If not that, at least a huge transition period from the Rick Pitino to the Chris Mack era would […]

Former Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino is itching it get back into coaching again as he is ready to take the next steps in getting back onto the court. According to ESPN, Pitino wants to coach again, whether it’s in college or the NBA. The former head coach has hired agent Jordan Bazant and is […]

The Virginia Cavaliers own the nation’s best defense, but on Thursday night, they won through their offense – or at least it was what saved them from getting another blemish on their March Madness resume, as they escaped by only the skin of their teeth in a 67-66 road win over the Louisville Cardinals. Down […]

When it comes to the NCAA, it appears that Los Angeles Lakers rookie rising star forward Kyle Kuzma is not a big fan of how it operates. The 22-year-old rookie drafted No. 27 overall out of the University of Utah, was clearly not happy when it was announced yesterday that the NCAA forced the University […]

With Rick Pitino later going on television to address his situation, former Louisville Cardinals buddy Tom Jurich had already been fired by the program. With now both being unemployed, maybe they could go clubbing together or something. In what felt like the inevitable, Louisville “officially” canned Tom Jurich. That’s the immediate news bit here. Pitino and […]

Disgraced ex-Louisville Cardinals basketball head coach Rick Pitino isn’t going down without a fight – or at least without being an annoying figure hellbent on squeezing out whatever dignity is left inside of him. In a direct path to weird logic in an attempt to avoid accountability, Rick Pitino is claiming Adidas did things under […]

Some relatively good news is finally coming out of the Louisville Cardinals basketball program. In a statement, the university announced the hiring of Trent Johnson as an assistant coach. It is certainly worth noting that this came after the school announced that assistant coach Jordan Fair had been terminated. David Padgett released a statement in […]

Louisville has announced that the only two remaining assistant coaches on the staff in the era of Rick Pitino, Jordan Fair and Kenny Johnson, have been placed on paid administrative leave as the school continues to investigate their involvement in allegations made in last week’s FBI complaint. Jordan Fair had been with the program for […]

The Louisville Cardinals basketball program isn’t exactly having the greatest run as of late. Despite that, interim head coach David Padgett believes things are starting to return to form. “We’re returning to some sense of normalcy,” Padgett said Wednesday, as written by the AP, “and we’re getting there because we’ve been able to practice and […]

Rick Pitino can continue to be defiant. Rick Pitino can claim both ignorance and innocence. But what the effectively fired Louisville Cardinals coach can’t do is prevent the flood of news coming out that continues to paint him in the most awful of lights. According to a report, the (again) effectively fired Louisville Cardinals coach […]

The Louisville Cardinals stay losing in the wake of the FBI looming in the shadows. 4-star talent in the 2018 recruiting class, David Johnson, has announced that he is backing out of his commitment to the program. “I’ve decided that I’ll be reopening my recruitment,” Johnson told Scout. Obviously, this isn’t incredibly shocking. Most people […]

Rick Pitino must think he’s arguing against the NCAA. Or, maybe, he is truly innocent. Either way, it has to be one of those two, because rare is the man being this defiant against allegations as the feds are nearing the doorstep. In an interview with the Courier-Journal, Rick Pitino said some nice things. Like […]

Rick Pitino has released yet another statement. This time, following the university effectively firing him, the tone of his words are slightly different. No, silly. Of course he isn’t admitting to the logical theory that he knew of anything that went down at Louisville. Rather, he is willing to take blame… for things he continues […]

In what is the most shocking development in an incredibly stunning story, Rick Pitino is reportedly the unidentified Coach 2 in the FBI’s affidavit. Basically, if things were awful at Louisville as they are now, they are about to get worse 10 times over. According to CBS News and the Wall Street Journal, Rick Pitino […]

The Louisville Cardinals are in a bit of trouble. Not only is the FBI cornering in on the program’s connections to a shoe company, but Louisville was forced to fire Rick Pitino, and now two of the team’s top high school commitments — Courtney Ramey and Anfernee Simons — are bailing on them. For good reason, too. […]

The inevitable finally happened. The Louisville Cardinals have fired both head coach Rick Pitino and athletic director Tom Jurich in the wake of the FBI arrests on Tuesday. Coach Pitino leaving practice facility. Would not answer my or @mikelacett questions. @WDRBNews pic.twitter.com/Zm5RghAWn4 — Travis Ragsdale (@TravisRagsdale) September 27, 2017 Reportedly, Jurich was asked to fire […]

There is an expectation that University of Louisville men’s basketball head coach Rick Pitino will be fired on Wednesday after a report of the school’s involvement in an NCAA corruption scandal, according to Michael Eaves of ESPN. Pitino has told members of his coaching staff he believes he will lose his job. Louisville athletic director Tom Jurich could also be on his […]

The recruitment scandal that’s currently rocking the world of college basketball is just getting started. The Louisville Cardinals are among the programs being probed by the FBI, whose interest in the school mostly lies in the way it recruited a certain player that was allegedly made possible by an Adidas executive paying the recruit’s family […]

It may not shock those who’ve followed Rick Pitino’s career as head coach of the Louisville Cardinals basketball program, but the news of the school’s hoops program being under FBI investigation for corruption is decidedly serious. Earlier, it was reported that the United States Department of Justice has zeroed in on 10 people, including four […]

The ‘one-and-done’ rule, which requires high school players to spend at least one year in college to be eligible for the NBA Draft, has been in effect for more than a decade already. However, after years of criticism, its days might be numbered now. At least according to University of Louisville head coach Rick Pitino. […]

Muhammad Ali has been receiving tremendous support from athletes and sports figures alike since his passing last Friday. Amongst the people he touched was Doc Rivers who had a personal connection with Ali when the “Greatest” reached out to him in his playing days. According to Rivers, Ali reached out to him to play for […]