Billy W Reed

Thoroughbred: A Celebration of the Breed

Messages to Lelia: Haiku, Short Poems, and Longer Poems

A book of haiku and other poems by a noted Mid-South poet based on Memphis, Tennessee. His poetry springs from wide-ranging experience connected with his family history and with local Southern cultures in Mississippi and West Tennessee. His poetry sparkles with life, deep-rooted as it is in the soil...

Unbreakable: Louisville's Inspired 2013 Championship Run

Louisville's win over Michigan in the 2013 NCAA championship game was the culmination of a basketball season few Cardinal fans will ever forget, and this commemorative book takes fans through the team's amazing journey, from their "Battle of the Bluegrass" win over Kentucky to the final seconds in A...

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Thoroughbred: A Celebration of the Breed

Book by Reed, Billy

My Favorite Derby Stories

In over four decades of sportswriting, Billy Reed has covered virtually every major sporting event in America. But nothing means as much to him as the Kentucky Derby. He has become something of an authority on the race, not just because he loves it, but because he has covered it so closely for so lo...

Louisville Cardinals Football

This is the story of an urban university's up-and-down struggle to find its niche in the world of big-time college football. Although its bowl trips and national rankings have been few and far between, the University of Louisville has a football history that's incredibly rife with larger-than-life h...

54 Years at Freedom Hall: Great Events and Memorable Moments at One of America's Premier Arenas

Since its opening in 1956, Louisville, Kentucky's Freedom Hall has been one of the nation's premier sports and entertainment venues. Published during the arena's final season as the home of the UofL Cardinals basketball teams, this fully-illustrated, full-color commemorative coffee-table book celebr...

Lombardi and Me: Players, Coaches, and Colleagues Talk About the Man and the Myth

Explaining the legendary Vince Lombardi through the words of the men who knew him the best, this book describes Lombardi’s efforts and qualities that defined an era of football and captured the attention of the nation Former player Paul Hornung, one of Lombardi’s biggest challenges and brightest sta...