The University of Louisville basketball team is off to its best start in 15 years.The Cards are 10-0 heading into tomorrow’s game against the College of Charleston.Coach Rick Pitino says his team is spending its holiday break preparing for its final stretch of non-conference games, then the Big East race. "We can rest our players, practice hard, get a lot of different individual instructions in. We can go recruiting at night. It’s a great time of year because the players are not under pressure with their academics," Pitino said. U of L has four games left in the 2011 calendar year, including a New Year’s Eve visit to the University of Kentucky. Tomorrow’s game against the College of Charleston tips off at 9:00pm at the KFC Yum Center.
Rick Howlett was midday host and the host of LPM's weekly talk show, "In Conversation." He was with LPM from 2001-2023 and held many different titles, including Morning Edition host, Assignment Editor and Interim News Director. He died in August 2023. Read a remembrance of Rick here.