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means more money. We had a lot of good memories there [at the Courier-Journal], but in the end we decided to give it a shot. WDRB 41 gave us a lot of freedom for the types of content we wanted to provide." Crawford was now able to continue his career with the same Rick Bozich he grew up reading while in high school, with the admiration that Crawford still has for his colleague starkly clear. "Rick is a great friend and he's been a great sounding board. Rick was really supportive of me early in my career when the Courier-Journal kept turning me down, as was Pat Forde. I owe a great deal to them both." "Your life is about to change in waYs You don't know. You are going to have the time of Your life." This is what editorial page director David Hawpe told Crawford when Rick Pitino was hired to coach the University of Louisville. "He was in many ways right," recalls Crawford. "I was the one who placed the call to Rick the night he decided to go public with the fact that he went to the FBI over the extortion business. I wanted to reach out to him directly rather than get the story secondhand." Crawford also got to follow Louisville during their unexpected run in the 2012 NCAA tournament, from the games in Phoenix all the way to New Orleans in the Final Four matchup against University of Kentucky. "It was like watching Pitino come back to life. I remember catching him alone in the locker room after beating Michigan State in the Elite Eight, and it was as if he was already in the Final Four. He was watching Florida's game, talking to us about the Michigan State victory, and really believed they would make a run at Kentucky which they almost did." Crawford was also there during Louisville's run to the national championship last year, for which he leveraged his creative freedom at WDRB 41 to put out an eBook entitled "The Run". "I don't think people understood how well Louisville was executing in the tournament. In the Duke game, they would play one defense when Seth Curry had the ball, and another when he didn't. Duke never fgured it out. I had to watch a lot of the game in the media room. The set-up put you too far away to tell big men apart, so there I was with Mitch Albom and Hoops Weiss watching the game on a television." During that historic season Crawford and Pitino were also working on a book together "One Day Contract", scheduled to be released on Oct. 1. 42 T h e V o i c e o f L o u i s v i L L e | w w w. v o i c e - t r i b u n e . c o m fA L L 2 0 1 3