Players on the Oklahoma City Thunder have been hanging around UK’s campus all week. They moved on to UK’s practice football field Thursday, and at one point, Kevin Durant stepped in at quarterback with Russell Westbrook at wide receiver. UK cornerback Randall Burden was defending Westbrook, who beat him on a go route but couldn’t [...]
CBS’ Jeff Borzello has an interesting piece on the mentality of top basketball recruits. Nearly all are coddled. Borzello, using Memphis’ Will Barton’s maturation during high school under a coach who didn’t cater to him as a prism, says more recruits need “reality checks.” In the article, Borzello quotes UK commit Archie Goodwin, who said [...]
A team of former UK players, named the Big Blue All Stars, will play a team of UK “Villains” in Rupp Arena on Oct. 24, the Lexington Center announced Wednesday. Christian Laettner, former Duke player, will coach the Villains. Rex Chapman, former UK player, will coach the Big Blue All Stars. According to Kyle Tucker [...]
Michael Kidd-Gilchrist was handing out McDonald’s breakfast to Big Blue Madness campers. Three hours later, he was sitting in the UK Athletics office with those same 500 campers in tents ringing the building. Kidd-Gilchrist is content with being in here instead of out there. “It’s so cold outside right now,” Kidd-Gilchrist said of the 55-degree [...]
The NBA lockout is still in effect. So NBA players keep coming to UK. Sunday night, Kevin Durant tweeted that he was on his way to Lexington. Today, UK football graduate assistant coach Andre Woodson tweeted that not only were the Thunder at UK, but also Rajon Rondo and the Boston Celtics: Calls to UK [...]
The finalized rosters for the upcoming Big Blue All Stars exhibition tour featuring former Kentucky players were announced today in a release. Multiple former UK players, as well as two others with local ties, will be playing in the games. Additionally, DeMarcus Cousins and Rajon Rondo are still deciding, but Jeff Sheppard says Cousins will [...]
John Wall has been one of the most active NBA players over the summer, from countless pick-up and league games to calling out NBA leaders to help end the lockout. Most fun of all, though, are his highlight reels. He’s got another one out featuring all his dunks in the recent CP3 All-Star Game, including [...]
John Calipari was part of a coaches clinic today at Rutgers University, along with Bill Self, Larry Brown, Jeff Van Gundy, Bob Hurley and Mike Rice. Jonathan Givony of Draft Express was at the interview sessions afterward and tweeted out a bunch of Calipari quotes, from how he plans to alter his dribble-drive after experiencing [...]
At the spot outside Memorial Coliseum, beside the Adolph Rupp sign and where the sidewalk turns into the Coliseum entrance, is a metal pole and a white line in the grass. That spot, a coveted spot, is first in the line to get Big Blue Madness tickets. Wednesday morning, it was a contended spot, as [...]
UK head coach John Calipari told ESPN that should the SEC choose to expand again, it should target Virginia Tech, Maryland and Missouri. Calipari has long said that he thinks conferences will expand to 16 or 18 superconferences. After the recent addition of Texas A&M, which Calipari lauded as a good move for the conference, [...]
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