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From Kuala Lumpur to Louiseville?
On a recent Malaysia Airlines flight, I was thumbing through their inflight magazine and inevitably made my way to their network map page. As I always do whenever I come across an airline network map,...
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PatheTIF: What’s Next for the KFC Yum! Center?
As has long been speculated by many, Moody’s finally downgraded the Louisville Arena Authority’s debt to junk bond status last month. It wasn’t just a one-notch downgrade, but a double-notch downgrade...
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Oklahoma City Thunders into NBA Finals; Louisville Watches
Last year’s NBA Finals brought an interesting global story line to the table, with German Dirk Nowitzki leading the Dallas Mavericks over the Miami Heat, coached by Filipino-American Erik Spoelstra....
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Tenanting Key to Fixing KFC Yum! Center TIF Woes
At Monday’s Louisville Arena Authority’s (LAA) meeting, the LAA Board of Directors decided it’s time to part ways with the Kentucky State Fair Board and find new arena management. Three national venue...
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U.S. Route 25: From Corbin to Tokyo, via Gardiner Lane
In 1939, Winston Churchill claimed Russia to be “…a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.” That was 25 years before Col....
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KFC Yum! Center Lease: Problems from 2011 Still Exist in 2012
This article was originally written last year when there was some debate as to where a potential Louisville NBA team would play, at the new KFC Yum! Center or at a renovated Freedom Hall....
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Louisville’s Long, Tortured Professional Sports History
There is no doubt that Louisville does big sporting events extremely well, which might be expected given its practice with 138 Kentucky Derbies. Churchill Downs has also hosted eight Breeders’ Cup...
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Louisville, Seattle, Sacramento and the NBA
HoopsWorld NBA Editor Steve Kyler, a man in the know about the NBA, wrote an interesting piece on July 31 suggesting that the Sacramento Kings are all but done in their current hometown when their...
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Louisville Arena Authority Offers Bizarre Reassurance
Louisville Arena Authority Chairman Larry Hayes expressed confidence in arena finances today relying on a bizarre strategy of primarily maintaining the status quo, according to a WHAS11 report by Joe...
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The Colonels, the Cardinals and Freedom Hall
One of the first–and biggest–objections pro-NBA to Louisville supporters encounter is the fear that a Louisville NBA team would negatively impact the University of Louisville basketball program’s...
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