What do you want to be when you grow up?
It’s one of the most common questions we’re asked when we’re children and the answers can range everywhere from firefighter, to doctor, to teacher to professional basketball player.
Wait, professional basketball player?
Call me crazy, but after reading the comments from a lot of Big Blue Nation – [...]
Nine months ago, the Southeastern Conference and ESPN agreed on a $2.25 billion media deal promising coverage of anything donning the conference seal. Nine months in, the deal has underperformed.
Across a number of media platforms, the Worldwide Leader has without a doubt raised the profile of football and basketball across the South.
That’s it, though.
The inherent [...]
In the press box at Commonwealth Stadium during Saturday’s Blue/White Game, Penn State’s spring game was on TV. Standing in the right spot, you could see the score of Penn State’s Blue/White Game and the scoreboard at Commonwealth.
The differences between the two Blue/White scrimmages were so many, it’s unreasonable to even [...]
Draft, draft, draft.
It’s all people are talking about this week (between talks about recruiting, obviously).
NBA Draft, NFL Draft, heck, maybe even the MLS Draft (just kidding, that one already happened).
But around these parts, specifically on UK’s campus, the buzz has waned significantly. The obvious reason is the closest NFL team is at least an hour and [...]
DeMarcus Cousins has a lot of work to do before the NBA Draft. Perhaps most elementary, above anything basketball-related: He needs a driver’s license.
Big Cuz — the same Big Cuz that drew almost as much love from NBA scouts as he did from end-of-the-bench hacks, sent in to try and hack their way through what [...]
When UK head coach Joker Phillips took over the reigns of the UK football program earlier this year, he coined a catchphrase that would speak to everyone around the program — players, coaches and fans.
By now, we all know what that catchphrase is, “Operation Win,” and how that winning is going to occur.
But I have [...]
Life as a college basketball coach, especially in Lexington, isn’t always easy. It certainly isn’t always fair.
So when Rod Strickland was pulled over early Sunday morning in his fourth drunk driving-related incident, the consequences shouldn’t be easy, and maybe they won’t be fair.
But if UK wants to get it right, it shouldn’t [...]
UK fans, rest easy.
If everyone on the current UK men’s basketball roster stays academically eligible through May 8, the Cats will have a full allotment of scholarships for UK head coach John Calipari’s second season at the helm.
Rumors have swirled about eligibility and UK’s potential Academic Progress Rating ever since a [...]
Did you hear?
A friend of a friend who works in admissions said he heard from a reliable guy that Darnell Dodson is transferring.
And no, before you ask: It’s not the same guy who said Billy Donovan’s children were enrolled in Lexington’s Catholic schools hours after Billy Gillispie was let go last year.
You can trust this [...]
For the last few days, things have been rough.
People are walking around campus in dark clothes, hoods up and eyes down. The only thing cutting through the solemnnity is the wind whipping around Patterson Office Tower.
There’s no joy or celebration, even though spring is here and Keeneland opens on Friday. It’s like a notable figure [...]
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