“Louisville” on The Daily Caller

Sen. Joe Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat, has called for a congressional investigation into political interference in the NCAA’s conference-realignment process, following reports that West Virginia University’s acceptance into the Big 12 Conference, which was a near-certainty on Tuesday morning, is being held up following competitive lobbying from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell — on behalf of his alma mater, the University of Louisville. (more)

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A Wisconsin man has been charged with drunken driving after police said he was driving the wrong way down a Louisville highway. (more)

LOUISVILLE, KY (WDRB Fox 41) – The man accused of killing a Sullivan University student faced a judge Wednesday morning.  At the same time, detectives continued combing a southern Indiana landfill for Andrew Compton’s body. (more)

A COUPLE OF kids figure to add even more juice to the North Carolina-Duke rivalry, a Hurricane hit the Great Wall of China and the Wall hit back, and does anybody know how to get to Iowa City? Watch those elbows, fellas. The annual college basketball primer is coming through. (more)

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -Workforce, the 7-5 early favorite, was scratched from the $3 million Breeders’ Cup Turf on Saturday morning because of the firm grass course at Churchill Downs. (more)

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Jerry Moss has survived cancer. He has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He is a Bronx native who went to college in Brooklyn but found a life in California, a good one. Still, he remains a Yankees fan, a devoted one. (more)

Jack Conway, the Democratic attorney general of Kentucky who is running for U.S. Senate, says he was not involved in a recent criminal investigation involving his brother and drug trafficking. (more)

BULLITT County, Ky. –Rand Paul said he has nothing to apologize about and neither do the folks who turned up for what’s being billed as the world’s biggest machine gun shoot just outside Louisville, Ky. (more)

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino is used to answering questions from reporters. (more)

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Opening statements will begin Monday in the case of a woman charged with trying to extort University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino, then lying about it to the FBI. (more)

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Republican Senate hopeful Rand Paul said Tuesday he couldn’t have won the GOP nomination in Kentucky without support from the tea party, and claimed the movement criticizes Republicans and Democrats equally. (more)

LOUISVILLE — The push to integrate Kentucky’s private social clubs, whose members clung to old notions of Southern white privilege for decades after the end of Jim Crow, began in the early 1990s with a lone, quiet protest: At lunchtime on days when the weather was nice, a black preacher and civil rights activist named Louis Coleman would put up a folding card table in front of one of the many unofficially restricted clubs here; set it with a tablecloth, china and candles; and dine on buns and lemonade. (more)

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A Louisville man has been charged with indecent exposure after witnesses said he masturbated in front of them. (more)

LOUISVILLE, Ky. –A Louisville man is charged with murder and sodomy after police said the man’s girlfriend was found dead at his home. (more)

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Hall of Fame trainer Ron McAnally will have a tough time holding it together if Sidney’s Candy ends up in the winner’s circle at Churchill Downs. (more)

There are few places where you can experience the aura of another era. Churchill Downs is one of them. (more)

A few weeks ago on these pages I shocked a lot of people by strongly stating what seems to be an obvious but important reality that Sarah Palin cannot beat President Obama in 2012. While many of her incredibly passionate fans are still understandably unwilling to accept this clear fact (and therefore take their frustrations out on me), this post is not to gloat over the most recent credible poll showing that Palin would be, as I predicted, the worst possible contender against an Obama who still is a strong favorite to win reelection. Instead, I want to praise Palin for possibly understanding this situation and reacting brilliantly to it. (more)

The Big East fondly remembers the NCAA tournament of last season, when the conference placed two teams, including Villanova, in the Final Four and four squads in the Elite Eight, and basked in all the coast-to-coast praise. (more)

Last week I made a rare appearance on MSNBC (a network on which I have had numerous “YouTube moments” since the 2008 election, when they became the “Obama Network”) and shared some statements which apparently shocked some of my fellow conservatives. (more)

Connecticut is used to drama at the Big East Tournament, just not this kind. (more)