CARDINAL Caravan this afternoon

Thursday Cardinal Couple

-Final Cardinal Caravan at Captain's Quarters

-Another Lindsey headed to the press table...

6 p.m. the start time for the activities at Captain's Quarters down on the Ohio River. Rick Pitino, volleyball's Anne Kordes and soccer's Karen Ferguson-Dayes the featured speakers. The Ladybirds and Louie the Cardinal Bird will be on hand as well with Al Greener's excellent UofL Pep Band. Who knows, you just might run into a couple of Lady Card hoopster as well.

Captain's Quarters is a great place to have Cardinal Caravan!

Even though CARDINAL COUPLE won't be able to attend, we've got readers there that have promised to provide us a full report later this evening. If you go, go early...it gets crowded down on the lawn.

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The Howitzer enters fatherdom...

Congratulations to Louisville/Cardinal Sports Report impresario Howie Lindsey and his wife Stasia on the birth of their first child...a nearly 9 lb. baby boy that was named Howard Lindsey IV.

As LSR head man Jack Coffee reports...Mother and child are doing fine...Dad not so well.

Nine pounds...about the weight of Sonja's bowling ball. You can probably expect this one to be running around with a notepad and tape recorder in pre-school a few years from now...getting inside scoop on lunch entree prospects, milk break trends and the latest scuttlebutt around the sandbox. Way to go, big guy!
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Bill the Goat proposes changes in the 12 months...

CAMPAIGN NEWS:

Bill was asked what changes he would propose in the next twelve months. Bill responded by suggesting that the months themselves needed to be changed. He wants all twelve months to be four letter words. July and June are safe. The other changes:

JANUARY would go to JANY
FEBRUARY changes to FEBY
MARCH is now ARCH
APRIL converts to FOOL (Bill's favorite day of the year...April Fools Day)
MAY adds an "e" to MAYE
AUGUST is shortened to GUST
SEPTEMBER becomes SEPT
OCTOBER translates as BILL now (Bill thinks a month should be named after him and since he was born in October...well, you get the idea.)
NOVEMBER shortens to NOER
DECEMBER would become BRRR

Bill refused to comment on the changes...but Lt. Gov. running mate Howie Lindsey thinks that the changes will save everyone a great deal of time when writing, use less ink and cut government spending. Lindsey proposed that Bill is "a stinking genius, I tell ya...and even re-named me Howe."

BILL the GOAT to campaign at Derby and Oaks

Gubernatoral candidate Bill the Goat will take the campaign to the people with appearances at the Kentucky Oaks and Kentucky Derby this Friday and Saturday. Campaign manager Tom Cahill could not be reached for comment but did issue a statement:

WE feel Bill's campaign is all about the people and where you gonna get more people in two days in this state than at the Oaks and Derby? I tried to get him seats, a box, a suite...but it looks like he's going to end up out in the infield with the crazies. No problem. He's been there before, loves to graze on the grass out there and people are always buying him beer. Plenty of trash out there, too...so Bill can practice his ecology and recycling efforts while there.

Tom Cahill, pictured right, likes Centre soccer star Andy Karel (center)
Also pictured...Paul Sykes, owner of CARDINAL COUPLE (left)
and Bread Boy...second row.

Bill will be accompanied by members of the University of Louisville's Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity and he has also invited Lt. Gov. candidate Howie Lindsey to join him. Lindsey hasn't commented on the probability of his attendance...but was busy watching Louisville Cardinal baseball yesterday...

Prospect impresario Loquacious Gadfly has agreed to be campaign treasurer for Bill's run for governor of Kentucky and noted he has already raised $1.89 for Bill's campaign...loose change he dug out of a fountain at the Oxmoor Mall.

Contributions to the campaign can be  given directly to Gadfly...who panhandles outside the Prospect Kroger or to Cahill, who can normally be found in Silks or Champions at Churchill Downs. Small bills or loose change, please. Winning tickets and cash vouchers also accepted.
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