Eric Crawford
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Louisville, Ky., writer and photographer for WDRB Media.
BID ACCEPTED | Louisville will face Toledo in the Boca Raton Bowl on Dec. 23 www.wdrb.com/sports/bowl-...
Bowl Destination: Louisville will face Toledo in the Boca Raton Bowl on Dec. 23
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) – Louisville football will get a Florida bowl destination. The Cardinals have accepted an invitation to the Boca Raton Bowl to face Toledo of the Mid-American Conference.
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December 7, 2025 at 9:51 PM
BID ACCEPTED | Louisville will face Toledo in the Boca Raton Bowl on Dec. 23 www.wdrb.com/sports/bowl-...
NEW | Indiana is No. 1 CFP seed, heading to the Jan. 1 Rose Bowl, where it will face the Alabama-Oklahoma winner www.wdrb.com/sports/india...
Indiana named No. 1 College Football Playoff seed, will get Oklahoma or Alabama in Rose Bowl
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) – It’s been a heady morning for the newly crowned Big Ten champion Indiana football team. At around 11, it was announced as a unanimous No. 1
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December 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
NEW | Indiana is No. 1 CFP seed, heading to the Jan. 1 Rose Bowl, where it will face the Alabama-Oklahoma winner www.wdrb.com/sports/india...
NEW | Hit, hurt, heroic: Mendoza, Indiana knock out Ohio State to win Big Ten title www.wdrb.com/sports/crawf...
CRAWFORD | Hit, hurt, heroic: Mendoza, Indiana knock out Ohio State to win Big Ten title
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (WDRB) — He stayed down. For a moment, that’s all anyone could see. Indiana’s quarterback. Face down on the turf at Lucas Oil Stadium, unmoving.
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December 7, 2025 at 1:42 PM
NEW | Hit, hurt, heroic: Mendoza, Indiana knock out Ohio State to win Big Ten title www.wdrb.com/sports/crawf...
WOW | Indiana shocks the sport, stuns Ohio State 13-10, in Big Ten title game to earn No. 1 ranking, trip to Rose Bowl www.wdrb.com/sports/crawf...
CRAWFORD | Indiana shocks the sport, stuns Ohio State, 13-10 for Big Ten title, No. 1 ranking
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (WDRB) — Gentlemen, start your dreaming
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December 7, 2025 at 5:49 AM
WOW | Indiana shocks the sport, stuns Ohio State 13-10, in Big Ten title game to earn No. 1 ranking, trip to Rose Bowl www.wdrb.com/sports/crawf...
RAPID REACTION | No. 6 Louisville comes out swinging to drop No. 17 Indiana 87-78 www.wdrb.com/sports/rapid...
RAPID REACTION | No. 6 Louisville comes out swinging to drop No. 17 Indiana, 87-78
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (WDRB) — They called it the CareSource Invitational, but for Indiana it felt more like a health-insurance claim. Louisville didn’t so much play a basketball game Saturday as
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December 6, 2025 at 9:50 PM
RAPID REACTION | No. 6 Louisville comes out swinging to drop No. 17 Indiana 87-78 www.wdrb.com/sports/rapid...
Championship Day | Indiana faces historic test — and opportunity — against top-ranked Ohio Stare www.wdrb.com/sports/champ...
Championship Day: Indiana faces historic test — and opportunity — vs. No. 1 Ohio State
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Indiana has waited more than a century to play a game like this.
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December 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Championship Day | Indiana faces historic test — and opportunity — against top-ranked Ohio Stare www.wdrb.com/sports/champ...
Championship Day | Indiana faces historic test — and opportunity — against top-ranked Ohio Stare www.wdrb.com/sports/champ...
Championship Day: Indiana faces historic test — and opportunity — vs. No. 1 Ohio State
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Indiana has waited more than a century to play a game like this.
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December 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Championship Day | Indiana faces historic test — and opportunity — against top-ranked Ohio Stare www.wdrb.com/sports/champ...
NEW | Kentucky's problems are evident. Whether Pope has answers is not www.wdrb.com/sports/crawf...
CRAWFORD | Kentucky's problems are evident. Whether Pope has answers is not
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) – For all of the notes Kentucky coach Mark Pope tried to sound after his team’s 94-59 blowout loss to Gonzaga Friday night – and there is
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December 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
NEW | Kentucky's problems are evident. Whether Pope has answers is not www.wdrb.com/sports/crawf...
BUZZER COLUMN | Music City Meltdown: Gonzaga eviscerates Kentucky, 94-59 www.wdrb.com/sports/crawf...
CRAWFORD | Music City Meltdown: No. 11 Gonzaga eviscerates No. 18 Kentucky, 94-59
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) – Maybe, coming off a 40-point loss to Michigan with a whole week to stew over it, No. 11 Gonzaga wasn’t going to lose to anyone in
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December 6, 2025 at 2:19 AM
BUZZER COLUMN | Music City Meltdown: Gonzaga eviscerates Kentucky, 94-59 www.wdrb.com/sports/crawf...
MUST WIN? Expensive roster, 0 ranked wins. Kentucky faces a key test vs. No. 11 Gonzaga in Nashville tonight www.wdrb.com/sports/crawf...
CRAWFORD | Expensive roster, 0 ranked wins. Kentucky faces key test vs. No. 11 Gonzaga
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — When it comes to Kentucky basketball, red flags are less something to calmly consider than to stack up and build into a bonfire.
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December 5, 2025 at 2:28 PM
MUST WIN? Expensive roster, 0 ranked wins. Kentucky faces a key test vs. No. 11 Gonzaga in Nashville tonight www.wdrb.com/sports/crawf...
WATCH | Dawn Staley, Jeff Walz full press conferences after tonight's 79-77 South Carolina victory www.wdrb.com/sports/sport...
FULL PRESS CONFERENCES: Staley and Walz talk South Carolina's 79-77 win at Louisville
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December 5, 2025 at 5:40 AM
WATCH | Dawn Staley, Jeff Walz full press conferences after tonight's 79-77 South Carolina victory www.wdrb.com/sports/sport...
NEW | Louisville didn't shock the world, but did shake it in 79-77 loss to No. 3 South Carolina www.wdrb.com/sports/crawf...
CRAWFORD | Louisville didn't shock the world, but shook it in 79-77 loss to South Carolina
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) – The win slipped away. But the moment? Louisville seized that.
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December 5, 2025 at 3:46 AM
NEW | Louisville didn't shock the world, but did shake it in 79-77 loss to No. 3 South Carolina www.wdrb.com/sports/crawf...
First quarter images from the KFC Yum! Center
December 5, 2025 at 12:23 AM
First quarter images from the KFC Yum! Center
ICYMI | "That's unacceptable." Pat Kelsey doesn't sugar-coat Louisville's first loss www.wdrb.com/sports/crawf...
CRAWFORD | 'That's unacceptable.' Kelsey doesn't sugar-coat Louisville's first loss
No. 6 Louisville walked in with its Top 10 ranking, a red-hot offense, and enough swagger to heat Bud Walton Arena without turning on the furnace. They left with a
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December 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
ICYMI | "That's unacceptable." Pat Kelsey doesn't sugar-coat Louisville's first loss www.wdrb.com/sports/crawf...
NEW | LouCity FC signs St. Xavier product Brandon Dayes to first professional contract www.wdrb.com/sports/louci...
LouCity FC signs St. X product Brandon Dayes to first professional contract
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) – Louisville City FC has signed 16-year-old defender Brandon Dayes to his first professional contract, making official a homegrown success story years in the making.
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December 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM
NEW | LouCity FC signs St. Xavier product Brandon Dayes to first professional contract www.wdrb.com/sports/louci...
NEW | "That's unacceptable": Kelsey doesn't sugar-coat Louisville's first loss www.wdrb.com/sports/crawf...
CRAWFORD | "That's unacceptable." Kelsey doesn't sugar-coat Louisville's first loss
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Pat Kelsey didn’t pace. He didn’t pout. But he also didn’t pretend.
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December 4, 2025 at 6:01 AM
NEW | "That's unacceptable": Kelsey doesn't sugar-coat Louisville's first loss www.wdrb.com/sports/crawf...
From earlier: Everything new Kentucky coach Will Stein had to say in his introductory news conference www.wdrb.com/sports/every...
Everything new Kentucky coach Will Stein said in his introductory press conference
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WDRB) -- New Kentucky coach Will Stein got his first chance to speak directly to Wildcat fans and to ask questions from the media on Wednesday afternoon.
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December 4, 2025 at 5:05 AM
From earlier: Everything new Kentucky coach Will Stein had to say in his introductory news conference www.wdrb.com/sports/every...
RAPID REACTION | Calipari cracks Cards again as Arkansas knocks off No. 6 Louisville 89-80 www.wdrb.com/sports/crawf...
CRAWFORD | Calipari cracks Cards again as Arkansas topples No. 6 Louisville
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Louisville brought its Top 10 ranking. John Calipari brought his personal kryptonite kit.
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December 4, 2025 at 3:02 AM
RAPID REACTION | Calipari cracks Cards again as Arkansas knocks off No. 6 Louisville 89-80 www.wdrb.com/sports/crawf...
NEW | Will Stein takes over at Kentucky -- young, eager and ready to take risks www.wdrb.com/sports/crawf...
CRAWFORD | Will Stein takes over at Kentucky, young, eager, ready to take risks
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WDRB) – The new Kentucky football coach grew up going to Commonwealth Stadium. He sat in Section 128. He remembers bowl trips, the big wins and the heartbreaks.
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December 4, 2025 at 1:12 AM
NEW | Will Stein takes over at Kentucky -- young, eager and ready to take risks www.wdrb.com/sports/crawf...
NEW | Hustonville, we have a problem. Kentucky falls 67-64 to North Carolina, dropping its third straight to a ranked opponent www.wdrb.com/sports/crawf...
CRAWFORD | North Carolina hands Kentucky its 3rd straight loss to a ranked opponent, 67-64
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) – Hustonville, we have a problem.
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December 3, 2025 at 5:43 AM
NEW | Hustonville, we have a problem. Kentucky falls 67-64 to North Carolina, dropping its third straight to a ranked opponent www.wdrb.com/sports/crawf...
NEW | A Cardinal Christmas Carol: Louisville visits ghosts of basketball past at Arkansas www.wdrb.com/sports/crawf...
CRAWFORD | A Cardinal Christmas Carol: Louisville visits ghosts of basketball past at Arkansas
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) – You can have your holiday classics. Your Nutcracker. Your Miracle on 34th Street. In Fayetteville on Wednesday night, we get a different kind of reunion special:
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December 2, 2025 at 5:30 PM
NEW | A Cardinal Christmas Carol: Louisville visits ghosts of basketball past at Arkansas www.wdrb.com/sports/crawf...
NEW | My column on Will Stein, the Louisville native who takes over Kentucky football www.wdrb.com/sports/crawf...
CRAWFORD | Good Will Hunting: Stein steps forward to crack the Kentucky football code
Kentucky announced the move just after 11 p.m. Monday night.
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December 2, 2025 at 1:11 PM
NEW | My column on Will Stein, the Louisville native who takes over Kentucky football www.wdrb.com/sports/crawf...
NEW | Good Will Hunting: Stein steps forward to crack the Kentucky football code www.wdrb.com/sports/crawf...
CRAWFORD | Good Will Hunting: Stein steps forward to crack the Kentucky football code
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Kentucky found its football prodigy — not at Harvard, but at Oregon, by way of Louisville — and now it is handing Will Stein its dormant
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December 2, 2025 at 5:59 AM
NEW | Good Will Hunting: Stein steps forward to crack the Kentucky football code www.wdrb.com/sports/crawf...
STEIN TIME? Kentucky working to finalize a deal to make Louisville native and Oregon offensive coordinator Will Stein its next head coach www.wdrb.com/sports/uk-sp...
Report: Kentucky football targeting Oregon OC Will Stein as next coach
Kentucky has zeroed in on Oregon offensive coordinator Will Stein as its top target to replace Mark Stoops, according to a report Monday from ESPN’s Pete Thamel.
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December 2, 2025 at 12:36 AM
STEIN TIME? Kentucky working to finalize a deal to make Louisville native and Oregon offensive coordinator Will Stein its next head coach www.wdrb.com/sports/uk-sp...