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Baseball's 'Most Durable Batboy' Marks 55 Years On The Field

Thu, 16 May 2013 17:45:00 +0000

The University of Memphis baseball team plays its final home game of the season Tuesday. In addition to rooting for the players, Memphis fans will cheer for someone else: batboy Stan Bronson Jr.

But "boy" is a relative term. Bronson is 84, and this year he celebrates his 55th year in the honorary position with the University of Memphis Tigers.

Hiring Julie Hermann, Rutgers Seeks A New Era In Athletics

Bill Chappell — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:14:00 +0000

Rutgers University officials are welcoming the arrival of new athletic director Julie Hermann as the beginning of a new era, as the school seeks to rebound from the turmoil that recently engulfed its athletics department.

The hiring of Hermann, who most recently was the executive senior associate director of athletics at Louisville, comes one month after the school fired its basketball coach, Mike Rice, who was shown in video recordings to have shoved and

Pitino Keeps Promise, Gets Tattoo

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:53:00 +0000

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

Good morning, I'm Steve Inskeep.

Once Louisville won the NCAA men's basketball title, there was only one thing for Rick Pitino to do. He promised his players that if they won, he'd get a tattoo. We do not know if Pitino had second thoughts in the final seconds of the win over Michigan, but now the coach has done it. A Louisville spokesman tweeted a photo of the 60-year-old coach's back. It is now marked with the team record, 35-and-five, along with a blood-red letter L.

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8 For 8: Connecticut Wins Another Women's Hoops Title

Mark Memmott — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:15:00 +0000

For the University of Louisville's Lady Cardinals, it just wasn't meant to be.

Hoping to follow the Louisville men's basketball championship with one of their own, the women played for the Division I title Tuesday night in New Orleans.

How Louisville Went From 'Little Brother' To Powerhouse

Rick Howlett — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 21:18:00 +0000

University of Louisville fans have had a lot to cheer about lately — and not just basketball.

Monday's big victory by Louisville's men's basketball team over Michigan is just the latest success for the school and for an athletic department that is quickly becoming one of the country's most admired.

In January, the football team upset fourth-ranked Florida to win the Sugar Bowl, and coach Charlie Strong turned down a lucrative offer from the University of Tennessee to continue rebuilding the Louisville program.

Louisville also fields some of the nation's best teams in other sports, like s