March 20, 2009

U. of Louisville Holds Fast to Plans for Big-Time Sports

By LIBBY SANDER

For five decades, the University of Louisville men's basketball team has played its home games at the state's fairgrounds, in a modest arena originally built for horse shows. And for just as many seasons, the team's toughest competition for scheduling has come from the livestock — and the flea markets and tractor pulls that also vie for the space.

The years of wrangling over dates will end next year, when the university — and its highly ranked basketball

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