At the age of 25 a young man came out of the University of Kentucky, accepting a position as a sportscaster with WHAS television for their major television broadcasts.

That man was a young Paul Rogers, and he had been thrown into the mix by local broadcasting giant Cawood Ledford, armed with a distinctive and powerful voice Rogers immediately gained a following as a member of the 1976 broadcasting crew.

Rogers actually joined WHAS three years prior to that though, working in both television and radio and gaining hands on experience along with his education. 

If history has a tendency to repeat itself, let’s hope the flooding of Louisville is an exception to the rule. In January of 1937, during the hard economic times of the Great Depression, heavy rains began to fall and continued to do so for two straight weeks. The Ohio River reached a crest of 57.1 feet—nearly 30 feet above flood stage and more than 175,000 citizens were displaced. Just to give you a frame of reference of just how many people that is, the KFC Yum Center can hold 22,000 people.

In 1913 Woodrow Wilson was sworn in as president of the United States, gas was about 8 cents a gallon and a true sports legend in the city of Louisville was born in the University of Louisville Cardinal.

An athletics representative for the school the Cardinal bird quickly became a staple, the animal selection was relatively simple. It was the state bird of Kentucky, and the city had an abundance of the red birds. In addition, it was an attempt to give the mascot a broader and more state wide appreciation.

After falling from the ranks of the unbeaten in Wednesday’s 71-68 loss to Georgetown, Rick Pitino said his team would not hold a press conference prior to Saturday’s matchup against Kentucky. From a coaching standpoint, it’s probably a wise move to not put your players through another round of questioning and instead have get it over with while still steaming about their first loss of the season.