A Little About Me...
Longtime Kentucky Journalism fixture Billy Reed is a former writer for Sports Illustrated and a member of the U.S. Basketball Writers Hall of Fame, the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame and the Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame.
The former Courier-Journal Sports Editor and columnist and Lexington Herald-Leader columnist is an eight-time Kentucky Sports Writer of the Year eight times and two-time Eclipse Award winner.
Mr. Reed now will be posting some of his thoughts, opinions and news stories to Louisvillemojo, as part of our broadening effort to bring readers high-quality journalism and content.
Hoops' Demise in the SportsCenter Era
I've become convinced that the toughest opponent on any major college basketball coach's schedule isn't UNC, OSU, or UCLA. It's ESPN, especially the nightly SportsCenter show. It's the only TV program that has demonstrably altered the way a game is played and coached. Think about it. Of all the blue-chip ...
NOV
17
2009
Recruiting Scams and Hype in Basketball's Bermuda Triangle
I've never paid much attention to the basketball recruiting services, which I consider to be little more than a scam. Anybody who knows anything about basketball always can pick out the really good prospects. When it comes to evaluating the others, I don't trust anybody who's egotistical enough to tell ...
NOV
13
2009
The Next U of L Football Coach Should be...
At the time I met Turner Gill in 1995, he was the quarterbacks coach at Nebraska, then one of the nation's premier programs. He was in Louisville with Tommie Frazier, the Nebraska QB who had been selected as the winner of the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award, given to the ...
NOV
9
2009
The Barefoot Coach, Pt. II
Without Hill, the Jags struggled to a 16-14 record last season. But then they went overseas again, taking 20,000 pairs of shoes to Nigeria even though Hunter couldn't go with them. Laid up by surgery for a herniated disc, the coach nevertheless worked the phones from his bed, trying to ...
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