For the 47th consecutive spring, your humble correspondent has spent considerable time on the backstretch at Churchill Downs, doggedly pursuing thoroughbred trainers in search of truth and, more importantly, the winning exact…
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Billy Reed: 47 years of Derby picks
Posted by Billy Reed on May 2nd, 2013
Posted in Catholic Sports 
Tags: Billy Reed, Churchill Downs, humble correspondent, Kentucky Derby 
No Comments »Billy Reed’s March Madness and Mania
Posted by Billy Reed on March 17th, 2013
Billy Reed gives you his March Madness picks
Believe it or not, it’s not much of a stretch to suggest we could have an all-Catholic Final Four in Atlanta. For that to happen, the Louisville Cardinals would have to be u…
Health N’ Sports: Calf Strains
Posted by Billy Reed on March 14th, 2013
CALF STRAIN (TENNIS LEG)
As a part of the Louisville Orthopaedic Clinic, the Sports Rehab Team physical therapists are knowledgeable and trained in the latest advancements and techniques available in sports rehabilitation….
Billy Reed: Giving Context to Super Bowl Sunday
Posted by Billy Reed on February 4th, 2013
Super Bowl Sunday brings out the best and worst all at once
As all good Catholics surely noted, the Super Bowl once again was an excellent showcase for the Seven Deadly Sins as defined by the church many Roman numerals ago. …
Posted in Catholic Sports Tags: Billy Reed, Super Bowl, Super Bowl Sunday, The Super Bowl No Comments »Billy Reed: Tackling the Te’o Quandry
Posted by Billy Reed on January 18th, 2013
Reed lays out the Te’o mess from his unique perspective
Many years ago I went to the Jefferson County Jail to interview Tom Payne, the 7-foot-1 former University of Kentucky basketball player who had been convicted of multip…
Siva, Behanan Check Out Bellarmine
Posted by Billy Reed on January 7th, 2013
They slipped in just before tipoff and took their seats three rows behind the Bellarmine bench. If they were hoping nobody would notice, they haven’t learned much a…
Cards Reach “The Next Level”
Posted by Billy Reed on January 3rd, 2013
Otto Knop loved University of Louisville football about as much as anybody I’ve ever known. He came out of St. Xavier High in 1948 and played four years for Coach Frank Camp. Two of those seasons, he centered the ball t…
Cards, Cats Both Got Something
Posted by Billy Reed on January 2nd, 2013
At just the moment in the Louisville-Kentucky basketball game when it looked as if the Cards, up by 17 early in the second, were going to kick the Cats all the way to Waddy-Peytona, the slowest guy on the floor knocked …
Posted in Catholic Sports Tags: basketball, Cards, Cats, guy, LOUISVILLE, moment, Second, the Cards No Comments »Billy Reed: Recalling Rick Majerus
Posted by Billy Reed on December 3rd, 2012
College hoops loses its last coaching character
He was more than just a splendid tactician who won more than 70 per cent of his games over 25 seasons at Marquette, Ball State, Utah, and St. Louis. What he was, mainly, was th…
Posted in Catholic Sports Tags: ball, Ball State, basketball, Billy Reed, cent, college basketball, last, Marquette, Rick, Rick Majerus No Comments »Froschauer Rakes in Weekly Honor
Posted by Billy Reed on November 6th, 2012
Freshman clean sheeted two opponents last week
from www.daytonflyers.com
DAYTON, Ohio – University of Dayton freshman goalkeeper Chris Froschauer was selected as TopDrawerSoccer.com Goalkeeper of the Week and the At…
