A clarification...Happy Halloween! -- SATURDAY CARDINAL COUPLE

 WHAT YOU READ IS NOT WHAT I MEANT TO ACTUALLY SAY...

Hi and greetings from the house where the trick or treaters no longer cross the street for treats one night a year, but go to sponsored school parties with themes and other assorted nonsense. 

I still remember the days of carrying my bag of goodies around me as me and the guys and I cruised our streets and collected treats. At the end of the night, I would dump them out on my bed and, with dancing eyes pick of three to have before brushing my teeth and going to bed . That was Dad's rule, not too many sweets before bedtime. He was a man that didn't deal in nonsense. He just worked hard for his wife and family. Clarity and accuracy were his staples. I admired them. I wish I were more like him.

I probably wasn't nearly as clear the other day when I posted an article about the end of daily Cardinal Couple columns. Some thought I was done with the site forever. That is not correct. Instead, I was trying to get across that Cardinal Couple would be an occasional article instead of a daily report. I failed badly in trying to get that across, just like I failed anytime I tried to shoot a basketball from 10 feet or further from the hoop. Great rebounder, wonderful putback artist up underneath the basket...horrible outside shooter was the "book" on me. 

Thank you to all who contact me with concerns, wishes and ideas. You are the reason I will always write. Your and my love affair is still strong. 

I reached the ripe old age of 70 and I looked back 50 years. I tried to remember what i remember what I did. I was a fraternity boy/man at Louisville and participated in every intramural sport that was offered.  Racquetball, basketball, flag football, softball, cross country, badminton, softball, and many others. I had just come out of a tumultuous relationship with a woman I should of married and was now a "free agent" in the dating game. I will probably never go into my dating game here...but..with shoulder length hair, full beard and chiseled 185 lb. body...let's just say I had no problems meeting women. I won't name names here, but made sure I had a single room, no roommate and...well. I'll stop there. The old tie hanging on the doorknob was our signal. Don't bother...but there was one guy in the frat who would track the women I was with. A pervert, I just didn't care at the time. When I went to the single occupant of room status...another story , another time.

Cardinal Couple will live on as long as I do. With no writers now, I choose to be more selective and careful on what I post. I still watch and observe,a lot of UofL women's sports I just don't make any of the pressers, practices or events. Internet makes that almost secondary, I don't need to be news breaking or controversial anymore. And I guard my sites and social media outlets careful, When someone hacked my X account a few years back and was posting horrible, depraved stuff.  or a personal sticking point with a coach or player. I just write when I want to, about what I want to. I hope you enjoy it and read me. If not, I understand. 

Have a great Halloween tonight. We don't get many kids anymore....and that is fine with me. More candy for me to snack on after Halloween. 

I remain...Paulie. 

While Paulie rests -- CARDINAL COUPLE 10/29

 

A "hello" to all the readers! I am Nick O...(Nick O'Hern) and have been a regular reader here since PAULIE STARTED THE SITE  I speak to you today with his permission. I am not a  regular writer here, all those lousy @#$%^ left almost at the same time. Talk about a kick in the "balls". No gratitude is so commonplace in the world anymore. While Paulie struggles each day with his kidney disease, they go on doing whatever slugs like them do. Honor is...history. Some have said UofL threatened them with punishments if they stayed with Paulie 

I am a huge Cards softball fan. My daughters and wife all played. They were pretty damn good, too. 

Paulie was killed because of a hijacked X account. 

I thought I needed to come here today and tell you that Paulie still watches everything he can on TV, Cable and internet as far as women's games go. He is just too weak to run a daily website.anymore.

I call them out...Jeff, who said he was creating a Volleyball site that never materialized. Jared, who abandoned Paulie to go to a rival site and then rumors of UofL sanctions toward him arose. Daryl...who knows? She got a job at UofL. Did they pressure her to quit Cardinal Couple? Case, who stayed the longest but is very involved in family life these days. 

Why did UofL kill Paulie's site? There were rumors of one now-defunct UofL media administrator carrying out a vendetta on Paulie, then all of a sudden going to take another job at a another school. A couple of other "S.I.D.'s" who showed him no support. 

I just wanted to let you know I stay in contact with Paulie. He is not a well man, but he still reads, watches and loves certain coaches down there. 

As forthose who betrayed him and joined forces to shut him down. Shame o you. 

Nick O, I am a Cards fan but the Cards administration can go jump off a bridge. 

I know Paulie will get upset when he reads this. I just hope he doesn't delete it. the truth needs to come out. 

Go Cards, Go Kroger-ing.  I'm out. 

ON Delay -- Cardinal Couple 10/8/2026

 CARDINAL COUPLE ON HOLD

Cardinal Couple is on delay until further notice due to PAULIE'S HOSPITALIZATION. 

We will be back when he cn return. 

Thanks for the cards, emails texts and such. Please continue to pray for his recovery. 

Sonja Sykes

Co-Owner Cardinal Couple.  

 c

Cards Volleyball like to play ILouisville -- THURSDAY CARDINAL COUPLE

 

WEDNESDAY CARDINAL COUPLE 

With Paulie still in hospital, Cardinal Couple will not be publishing any columns. I wish I could. I wish I still had a writer or two to occasionally post one. They all deserted me like they were under mandate. That's the thanks I get f giving them a chance to express their opinions. Nothing like that feeling of kicking an old man in the halls, is there folks. .    ....                                                          Paulie 

Cards, Irish Volleyball at 7 p.m. but...back to back?? - WEDNESDAY CARDINAL COUPLE

 # 4 CARDS TOIL AGAINST IRISH TONIGHT ..AND 1 PM. SATURDAY. 

The two ACC squads battle here in the KFC Center tonight and then go to South Bend for another match a half a day later on the UND Campus. ACCNX will show them both.

We have no idea why the teams, or the ACC decided to play back to back, or maybe they had no say in the scheduling quirk. The contests are usually fun ones, though. The Cards are 12-2 going into the one. We'll have much more on it in ..in tomorrow's recap. Have a wonderful Wednesday!

paulie

Louisville Volleyball's Addison Makun selected ACC Defensive Player of Week - TUESDAY CARDINAL COUPLE

 SOPHOMORE CARDINALS MIDDLE BLOCKER HONORED

The role of the middle blocker in college volleyball is aptly defined in the title. Teams want to score on opponents down the middle of the court in offensive attacking. The middle blocker's duty to to answer, "No, not on my watch". And few do it better in the ACC than Addison Makun. 

Makun had 2.33 blocks per set in Louisville wins over Syracuse and Boston College. Her 50 total blocks in action this season leads the team.

Louisville has had some very good middle blockers over the past few years. Volleyball fans will remember the names Cara Cresse, Amaya Tillman, Hannah Sherman and Brooke Bultema as essential to the UL successes. They even got Bultema to transfer in from UK. And once Tillman was finished playing for the Cards, UK lured her away to be an assistant coach there. 

When you have the #4 and the #6 teams in NCAA DI Volleyball in the commonwealth, and a former coach in in charge of the #1 team in the nation (Dani Busboom Kelly - Nebraska) you could say the sport has a lot of success and popularity here. 

I remember a few years ago when I was in a Louisville sports social club and they decided to have a raffle of goods and services. I went to Louisville Volleyball to see if they might be interested in putting up an item to help in the auction. A certain operations director casually asked me if I thought the club's members might be interested in bidding on a head coach signed volleyball. I almost fell out of my chair. Yes, they would, I managed to reply. It did quite well in the raffle. That was an OK club to be in for a couple years, but there were too many people with too many of their own selfish agendas they wanted to pursue. I backed out, indicating the sandbox was a little too crowded for my pail and shovel. And ,once I got my kidney diagnosis, I tendered my resignation. 

Congratulations to Addison! Keep blocking!

paulie

Sunday brings three contests for UoL women's athletics. -- MONDAY CARDINAL COUPLE

 WIN, LOSE AND DRAW FOR CARDS SUNDAY 

A very busy day for UofL women's athletics playing on the west coast, east coast and in Louisville. Let's see how the results came out, we'll start with the win. 

VOLLEYBALL SWEEPS BOSTON COLLEGE IN BEANTOWN

#4 Louisville went went to 12-2 with the straight set romp against the Eagles. The Cards took the sets 25-19, 25-21, 25-14.

Kalyssa Blackshear had 16 kills and nine aces to leads Louisville in the bird battle.  Chloe Chicoine was next with11 kills. 

The Cards return to the Ville and will bring Notre Dame on Wednesday. 

FIELD HOCKEY FALLS TO UC DAVIS 1-0

#12 Field Hockey took a surprising 1-0 loss in California to UC Davis.

After a scoreless first half, UC Davis got a goal from Molly Main in the third quarter and that concluded. the scoring. 

The loss dropped Louisville to 7-3 while the homestanding Aggies improved to 3-6. 

The Cards led in only one of the offensive categories...shots taken.  

Justine Sowry expressed disappointment . "That is a tough result for our team and credit to UC Davis for taking it to us."

UofL returns home and brings i powerhouses UNC and Stanford on Friday and Sunday.

CARDS WSOC DRAW WITH FSU AT LYNN

Ideal outdoor weather for women' s soccer and the Cards and Noles battled to a 90 minutes scoreless tie in front of the Cardinals faithful. 

Louisville had nine shots, FSU three. Each team had one on goal and the Cards tried eight penalty corners where FSU attempted just two. 

The Cards go to 8-1-2 and FSU 4-1-3.

A fun Sunday of recovering and watching on laptop and TV. 

paulie

Louisville Field Hockey, Women's Soccer and Volleyball in action Sunday -- SUNDAY CARDINAL COUPLE

 Volleyball, Field Hockey on road, WSOC in Lynn 

A busy day for UofL women's sports squads, with three in action. Volleyball is at Boston College, Field Hockey in California and takes on UC Davis and Women's Soccer hosts FSU on campus in Lynn Stadium. let's look at the contests. 

LOUISVILLE VOLLEYBALL IN BEANTOWN

The 11-2 Volley Cards are #4 in the AVCA Poll and 1-0 in conference. It should be a classic one.  They'll take on a B.C. squad that is 10-2 but not in the top 16 rankings.

The Eagles losses came to Vanderbilt and Dartmouth. 

Game time is 1 p.m. and ACC Network Extra (ACCN) will have the broadcast.

LOUISVILLE FIELD HOCKEY GOES TO U.C DAVIS

Cards Field Hockey goes into the UC Davis game with a record of 7-2. They are #12 in the NFHCA poll.

U.C. Davis in 2-6 on the season and is on a four game losing streak. UMass Lowell, Columbia, Northeastern, Yale, Northwestern and Northwestern have delived the defeats. They did defeat Bellarmine and Central Michigan. They are unranked. A 1:30 ET game but no broadcast information is listed.  

LOUISVILLE WOMEN'S SOCCER HOSTS FSU

Cards WSOC kicks it off against FSU and the Noles are 4-1-2 and #22 in the nation. Louisville WSOC is 8-1-1 and not ranked but receiving votes. It's set for a noon start and will be shown nationwide on ESPN.

The Noles have defeated Stetson, FIU, Florida Atlantic and Georgia, , they tied Rice and NCST and lost to Florida. The Noles are not ranked at all....a rarity for them but they do have five National championships....including last season.  Don't overlook them. 

paulie

Cards FH defeat California in Overtime -- SATURDAY CARDINAAL COUPLE

 LOUISVILLE GETS THE 3-2 WIN TO GO TO 2-0 IN ACC

it was Aubreigh Uba's goal with 11:43 gone in the first overtime period that gave the Cards the win out at California . Her score ended the contest and it was the only time in the entire contest that Louisville ever lead against Golden Bears. 

#12 UofL had only nine shots against UC defense while Cal fired away at the Cards19 times

After Cal's first score, Uof L countered with a goal from Tyler Everslage.  Cal went up 2-1 a minute later but the Cards equalized it again when Mary Wordelmann tied it. 

The Cards will face UC Davis Sunday. The Cards are now 7-2 and on a three game win streak. 

pauie

VOLLEYBALL, FIELD HOCKEY IN ACTION ON FRIDAY -- FRIDAY CARDIAL COUPLE

VOLLEYCARDS AT SYRACUSE, FIELD HOCKEY GOES TO CALIFORNIA

#4 LOUISVILLE VOLLEYBALL TO FACE THE ORANGE.

The Louisville vs Syracuse rivalry used to be a "thing" when Leonid Yelin was coaching the Syracuse squad.. And , just because the Orange aren't in the top 25 anymore, Syracuse fans won't stay away and can still be to show up and boo against the Cards when they show up for the game tonight. Bakeer Ganesharatnam is their head coach. He is in his fifth season. You figure out how to pronounce his name, I'll just call him Coach B.

The Cuse is 5-4 on the season and this will be their first ACC game. They opened in a tournament in Illinois and lost to Cincinnati and the Illini. Wins over Howard and Albany followed, though..before losing to Arkansas in four sets. 

Canisius and FDU fell to the Orange before Buffalo swept then in straight sets. 

Kiernan Stamey is the clear kills artist with 117.

It'll be a 6 p.m. start and ACCNX will have the coverage. 

FIELD HOCKEY ON WEST COAST

Justine Sowry's 6-2 and #12 Louisville Field Hockey is ranked #12 and will face the #17 Cal Bears today at 5 p.m.. 

The Bears are 5-1 with just a loss to Michigan State. Louisville enters 6-2.

They show a start time of 5 p.m. Out there, you never know 

Cal's leading scorer is Liz Klompmaker is the leading scorer for Cal with six goals. Cal is coached by co-head coaches Tara and Steve Danielson, husband and wife team in their first year of coaching the Bears

It's another one set for ACCNX. 

paulie