At 4:18 p.m. — 18 now-pardonable minutes late — Terrence Jones’ “50-50″ feeling became 100-0, at least officially. He had waved his hand over the metaphorical NBA hat and landed instead, this time irreversibly, on UK. The tweet — simple, no teasing build-up, and worded as if PR had absolutely nothing to do with 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 [...]
I showed up late to watch the UK-Louisville game at my friend’s apartment. (This by itself should immediately make you hate me for missing the season-opening kickoff. Believe me, I would hate myself for my own actions if I wasn’t, you know, an “objective journalist.”) I was not the kind of late where you make [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 compare the two. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 wait [...]
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