{"id":8730,"date":"2013-04-10T22:00:20","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T02:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/?p=8730"},"modified":"2024-12-04T17:50:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T22:50:29","slug":"seeing-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/?p=8730","title":{"rendered":"Seeing Red"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"10<\/a>Linda Burton posting from Frankfort, Kentucky <\/i>\u2013 They must eat a lot of Wheaties in Louisville, Kentucky. At least that\u2019s what I thought, as I watched a raving waving sea of cheering red on TV tonight. Louisville is almost 50 miles west of Frankfort, but I can hear the noise clear over here. What\u2019s going on? The University of Louisville Cardinals men\u2019s basketball team came home from Atlanta yesterday with an 82-76 win over Michigan, that\u2019s what, making them the NCAA National Champions<\/i> for 2013. And what\u2019s more, the Lady Cards just returned from New Orleans with a women\u2019s second place; yes, well, those UConn Huskies pulled it out again. So who\u2019s crying? Nobody! It\u2019s a celebration of what can happen when you \u201cgo for it,\u201d and from \"10<\/a>what I learn that seems to be the norm at U of L. Since the year 2000 the Cardinals have gone to basketball\u2019s Final Four three times and the Lady Cards twice; as to football, U of L claims an Orange Bowl win in 2007 and a Sugar Bowl in 2013; the guys have gone to the College Baseball World Series and won the National Soccer Championship in 2010. The gals have three Big East Tournament championships for volleyball and four Big East titles for track and field. All in all, there are 13 women\u2019s and 10 men\u2019s teams that participate in the Big East Conference (though they\u2019ll be switching to the \"10<\/a>Atlantic Coast Conference in 2014). The men\u2019s basketball program is the most profitable NCAA program in the country; it ranks 5th<\/sup> in NCAA Tournament wins and 5th<\/sup> in annual attendance; the women\u2019s basketball team broke the Big East paid attendance records in 2008 when they defeated U of Kentucky at Freedom Hall. But sports doesn\u2019t get all the recognition at U of L. <\/p>\n

\"10<\/a>When the University of Louisville was founded in 1798, it was the first city-owned public university in the United States. The Kentucky General Assembly mandated that it would be a \u201cPre-eminent Metropolitan Research University\u201d and that it is; between 1999 and 2006 the National Institutes of Health rated it one of the fastest growing medical research institutions. Over the years researchers from the U of L Health Sciences Center have been a part of:<\/p>\n