UK fans lined up hours before they could camp out for 72 hours so they could get tickets to an event 15 days away that precedes the actual season by another 15 days. It serves, once again, a striking reminder of how much UK loves its basketball. About 400 tents are set up around Memorial [...]
Mark Krebs, former UK basketball player, is releasing a book titled “Beyond A Dream.” The book shares the parallel stories of his time at UK going from a walk-on to a scholarship player and his mother’s nine-year fight against breast cancer. The Kernel has a story coming out tonight delving into Krebs’ experience writing the [...]
In the Sports Illustrated Vault — which, if you haven’t checked out, I would strongly recommend — was a first person story by George Blanda on his growth into an NFL superstar. The article was written after his career, and most of it focuses on his childhood playing backyard football and his NFL days as [...]
Former UK quarterback and kicker and NFL Hall of Famer George Blanda died Monday at 83. The NFL’s Oakland Raiders confirmed the death Monday and issued a statement on behalf of the organization that Blanda spent the last nine years of his professional career with before his retirement in 1976, one month shy of his [...]
Now that I’ve had a 12-hour car ride and a couple hours of sleep to gather some (relatively) coherent thoughts on UK’s 48-14 loss to the Gators, let’s see what we can take from Saturday. 1. The game was closer than the score: UK had thrown the towel in by some point late in the [...]
Last week, the Kernel sports staff was getting ready for the potential of covering a UK win against Florida. We were blowing out coverage. We were staring at photos of riots, envisioning the streets of Lexington running rampant once again with celebration. We were planning something like eight pages to this monumental achievement. We did [...]
UK head coach Joker Phillips discusses the 48-14 loss to the University of Florida on Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010. UK defensive coordinator Steve Brown discusses the 48-14 loss to the University of Florida on Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010. UK wide receiver Chris Matthews discusses the 48-14 loss to the University of Florida on Saturday, Sept. [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Kernel writers Ben Jones and Chandler Howard are in the press box at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium for the UK-Florida game. Fellow writer Nick Craddock will join in from Lexington. The Cats (3-0) are looking to open the Southeastern Conference season with a win and break a 23-game losing streak to the [...]
This Eric Bledsoe story, which started back on Memorial Day weekend, has been going on for quite some time. It appears as if we may be heading toward the end. The Kernel has the story at our website. To quickly summarize, the report did not believe that Bledsoe legitimately earned his grades, but the report [...]
At Thursday’s practice, UK head coach Joker Phillips announced some updates regarding injured players. Senior fullback Moncell Allen, who’s suffering from a hamstring injury, will make the trip to Gainesville, Fla., for Saturday’s game against the Gators. Allen was worked out at practice and Phillips said that Allen “is close enough where two days might [...]
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