Author Archive for Tim Johnstone
7 Myths and Misconceptions about this Governor’s Cup
If you’re like me you can’t get enough of the pre-game hype, despite the fact that 97% is finding different ways to say “If X team plays solid defense, competent offense, wins the turnover battle, and scores more points than the other team, they stand a good chance of winning”. But while I’m enjoying the [...]
Petrino & Kragthorpe Mock Talk Gov Cup
The time is upon us. With less than a week before the season kicks off and the battle for the Commonwealth determined, both camps will now entrench themselves, lob some verbal grenades, and hone the pre-game spin. I wish I could partake, but it’s not in my fan DNA. This is always a week that [...]
Weekly Red review
Another week in the books, and as far as the dog days of summer go, this one was drama-filled. The biggest news was the late addition of four-star power forward Montrezl Harrell to the Cards 2012 class. Scroll through the first couple YouTube videos that pop up under his name and you’ll quickly see why [...]
Weekly Red review and preview
Well, post-Derby depression has officially set in. All the festivities have passed, the hangovers weathered, bank accounts destroyed, and now we’re stuck staring at a long hot summer of counting down days till September 3rd when the Train runs over Joker Philips and puts him out of his misery. That’s a long time from now. [...]
Weekly Red review and preview
Derby week. The only days of the year when Cardinal sports take a backseat, or at least have to ride shotgun for awhile. And since Pitino’s horse “Gorgui” is still adding weight and learning more languages, we’ll have to wait awhile before our two great loves become one. But there was some non-equine related news [...]
Weekly Red review and preview
Another week in Cardinal history is almost in the books, and if you stick your head out the window, that sound you hear is the baseball Cards scoring yet another run over the Wildcats (insert “They s’posed to be SEC” joke). Tattooing the #1 ranked team in the country twice in one season is pretty [...]
