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| College basketball is very popular in greater
Louisville; Louisville and the nearby University of Kentucky
in Lexington have won a combined nine national titles (two at
U of L and seven at UK), and four of the 25 winningest NCAA
Division I teams are located in or near the city. Loyalties
in the immediate Louisville area are fairly evenly divided between
U of L and UK, with substantial numbers of Indiana and Purdue
fans on the Indiana side of the river. |
| High school sports are also very popular in the
city. While basketball is not as popular as in the rest of the
state (a distinction it shares with Northern Kentucky and a
handful of smaller towns, notably Paducah), Louisville area
high schools have been dominant in football in recent years.
Trinity (1994, 2001, 2002, 2003), Male (1993, 1998, 2000) and
St. Xavier (1992, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2004) High Schools have
won every 4A football title except one (Nelson County 1996)
since 1992 and have been 13 of the 15 finalists since 1997.
Also, Trinity and St. Xavier have one of the fiercest rivalries
in high school football. Every year, the St. X-Trinity game
draws thousands of fans to Papa John's Cardinal Stadium. Currently,
St. Xavier leads this storied rivalry with 31 wins, 26 losses
and 2 ties. |
| Horse racing is also very popular. Churchill Downs
is home to the Kentucky Derby, the largest sports event in the
state, as well as the Kentucky Oaks which together cap the two-week-long
Kentucky Derby Festival. Churchill Downs has also hosted the
renowned Breeders' Cup on five occasions, and will host that
event again in 2006. |
| Louisville is home of Valhalla Golf Club which
will host the 2008 Ryder Cup. It is also home to one of the
top skateparks in the U.S., Louisville Extreme Park. |
| Louisville is currently home to three minor-league
professional sports teams: |
- The Louisville Bats, a baseball team playing in
the International League as the Class AAA affiliate of the Cincinnati
Reds. The team plays at Louisville Slugger Field at the edge
of the city's downtown.
- The Louisville Fire of af2 (the minor league of the Arena Football
League).
- The Kentucky Colonels of the present incarnation of the American
Basketball Association. This team bears the name of another
Louisville team that was one of the more successful franchises
in the league's original incarnation of the 1960s and 1970s.
The original Colonels did not survive the absorption of the
old ABA into the NBA in 1976.
- The Louisville Bulls, a semi-pro football team in the Mid Continental
Football League.
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