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The Rival Rundown: Kentucky vs Louisville

Welcome back to The Rival Rundown! If you’ve always wanted to give props to your school on CC, now’s your chance! Shoot us an email explaining what’s awesome and unique about your school (or what stinks about Rival U) at rivalrundown [at] collegecandy.com!

One of the fiercest college basketball rivalries calls the Bluegrass State home.  Perennial March Madness top seeds University of Kentucky and University of Louisville go head-to-head this week!

Quick Facts

Kentucky: Public research institution in Lexington, KY with 19,000 undergraduates. Founded 1865.
Louisville: Public research institution in Louisville, KY with 15,000 undergraduates. Founded 1798.

1. Basketball Record

Kentucky: 27 wins
Louisville:
14 wins

Three credits to: Kentucky Read More »


Cards for Every Occasion

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I spent twenty five minutes in the greeting card aisle of CVS last night. I literally picked up and restocked every single card in the entire store before leaving in a frustrated huff with a card that was far from appropriate for the situation at hand.

It is not that the folks over at CVS don’t have a wide enough selection of cards – they have like 10,000! – it is just that there are some occasions that just don’t quite fit into the limited card categories that exist. Sometimes people may want to buy a card for something a little more specific than a generic birthday/thanks/anniversary/holiday/sympathy/etc/ card.

You know; like when you want to thank your guy for respecting you. Or a good friend for being there when you need her most. Or for a situation when you just can’t seem to find the right words. Read More »


Cute and Professional, Just Like You!

minicard_shot.pngI love pretty little things.

I really love pretty little things with a purpose. So imagine my glee when I happened upon the adorably named Moo.com, a website dedicated to “printing things from your stuff”.

Although the crafty folks at Moo will make lots of cute stuff from your uploaded pictures, my favorite product of theirs are the MiniCards.

For $20 you get 100 colorful mini cards (about half the size of a normal calling card) packed in a reusable plastic box. They can make the cards look nice for you, or you can pretty them up yourself with up to 100 different images. With six lines of available text on the back, these adorable little information holders are my new must haves. Read More »