Just two years after UK Athletics Director Mitch Barnhart first presented his goal of winning 15 conference and national championships across the athletic department by 2015, the athletics department is already seeing the results of his initiative.
Another of Barnhart’s goals was to have the UK athletic department rank in the top 15 of the Learfield [...]
When Qua Huzzie arrived at LaGrange High School in LaGrange, Ga., he put a couple of local legends on notice. The audacious freshman told Braxton Kelley and Wesley Woodyard, who both went on to be All-Southeastern Conference linebackers at UK and NFL players, he was going to break their records.
He made [...]
At first glance, it’s hard to imagine Moncell Allen ever played anywhere other than fullback.
His squatty 5-foot-7, 225-pound frame doesn’t lend itself to images of a playmaking tailback. But that’s where the senior-to-be has been cast mostly to this point in his career.
Now, with the departure of John Conner, Allen is moving within the backfield [...]
Several media outlets reported from the McDonald’s All-American game in Columbus, Ohio on Wednesday that a mass exodous could be occuring from the UK basketball program.
According to reports, UK head coach John Calipari told freshman center DeMarcus Cousins that only four players from this year’s team will be returning next year. [...]
Joker Phillips was introduced as UK’s head football coach on Jan. 6 after spending two years as head-coach-in-waiting. Now, as the Cats prepare to open spring practice on Wednesday, Phillips sat down with the Kernel to talk about his expectations for the team and his time as head coach to this point.
Q. Now that you’ve [...]
By Ethan Levine
Basketball is alive again in the bluegrass.
While the UK men’s and women’s basketball teams have both made runs in the NCAA tournament, one UK basketball team has already brought a title back to campus.
Earlier this month, the UK women’s club basketball team won the National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association regional basketball tournament held in [...]
NEW ORLEANS – The Big Easy is famous for its Creole food and jazz music, but the bayou is also known for something else: witchcraft and voodoo.
It doesn’t take a lot of walking through the French Quarter to find a store stocked with voodoo dolls or a palm reader set up on the street, so [...]
NEW ORLEANS – For those of you fortunate enough to make it down here to New Orleans, be sure to live it up. Now that you have a day without a UK game, you should enjoy the city. The Big Easy is definitely the most attractive venue UK will be visiting this tournament (Syracuse and [...]
NEW ORLEANS – They say that “Blue gets in” no matter where the Cats go, but even the Big Blue Nation can’t sell ‘em all out.
UK was certainly well-represented in its opening round game and on the streets of the Crescent City, but there were still plenty of empty seats for UK’s win over East [...]
NEW ORLEANS – Only a handful of people can count legendary UK basketball coaches Adolph Rupp, Joe B. Hall and Tubby Smith as friends. Almost all of them will be cheering for the Cats when UK takes on East Tennessee State on Thursday night.
But Gene Bartow won’t be.
Bartow knew all of those coaches and has [...]
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