Sports

This week was more than tariffs! There were tortoises, genetically engineered animals, smart vacuums and a lot of other news!

Florida ends UConn's bid to repeat — again — in Sunday action that saw a memorable buzzer-beater. Meanwhile, South Carolina advances in the women's tournament, which rounds out its Sweet 16 on Monday.

Trying to prove the real inventor of the March Madness pool seems about as implausible as picking a perfect bracket. A Staten Island pub says it was the first in the late 1970s to design what would become the modern-day bracket. The family of a U.S. Postal Service worker out of Kentucky says he was the first one to create the bracket.

Former U of L, Milwaukee Bucks basketball star Junior Bridgeman was a fixture in Louisville after his playing days. Mayor Craig Greenberg said the city had “lost a kind, generous and groundbreaking legend.”

Katie Schumacher-Cawley became the first female coach to win a NCAA volleyball championship as Penn State defeated Louisville 3-1 in the final.

Penn State will face host Louisville in the championship, and set up a historic NCAA final between two female coaches. Katie Schumacher-Cawley guides the Lions, while Dani Busboom Kelly leads the Cardinals.

The University of Louisville Cardinals women’s volleyball team hopes to make history twice this year in the NCAA Final Four on their home turf.

Joe Creason Park off Newburg Road is under some construction this week. Crews are preparing for USA Cycling’s 2024 Cyclocross National Championships.

By day, Mónica Negrón is the director of Hispanic, Latinx and Indigenous Initiatives at the University of Louisville Cultural Center. She’s also the head coach of the senior women’s national Puerto Rican lacrosse team.

A long-gestating project to bring a tournament-ready sports complex to far western Kentucky has advanced in fits and spurts since it came into being more than five years ago.