For most, traveling by chartered plane is a luxury, for some it is routine, and for fewer still it is an obsession. For the Memphis Tigers’ 2008 breakout point guard’s brother, Reggie, it was the latter. Unfortunately for John Calipari and UM, as far as the NCAA is concerned, that excuse doesn’t fly when it comes to violations.

UofL basketball coach Rick Pitino is fending off a media firestorm and most of the public is caught up in the he said, she said of his Italian Sextaurant Scandal. Fortunately, one supremely dedicated Cardinal fan has risen above the din of morality questions and titillating details and to ask what no one else has.

"Why is Karen Sypher airing her dirty laundry?"

Scores of Kentuckians will be making their first trip to Ohio as the Cats take on Miami Redhawks in Cincinnati September 5th, and for most of them besides a win, their biggest concern is as one fan put it, "just making it out alive."