The University of Louisville has an interim basketball coach.
One has to wonder, is David Padgett ready in his first gig as a head coach to step into the kleig lights that shine upon he who is roaming the sideline of a national contender.
Lou Gehrig, now there's a guy ready to carpe diem, and carpe diem, and carpe diem. On June 1, 1925, baseball's greatest trivia answer Wally Pipp wasn't fit to take the field. Gehrig played first for that and the next 2,130 Yankee games.
On August 13, 1919, Upset was ready. On the Saratoga race course, the thoroughbred handed heralded Man o' War the only defeat of his career, thereby cementing the victor's name forever in the sports lexicon.