Vegas likes Wall, Cousins in ROY race
Posted: 11:23 AM When it comes to the NBA's Rookie of the Year award, Las Vegas oddsmakers like the chances of former Cats John Wall and DeMarcus Cousins.
Posted: 11:23 AM When it comes to the NBA's Rookie of the Year award, Las Vegas oddsmakers like the chances of former Cats John Wall and DeMarcus Cousins.
Posted: 10:16 AM John Wall was the summer league MVP, while former teammate DeMarcus Cousins was first runner-up.
Posted: 2:29 PM Former Wildcat DeMarcus Cousins wraps up his Summer League play on Saturday, but already, he's made believers out of the most experienced skeptics.
Posted: 2:21 PM John Wall's Las Vegas vacation was anything but that. All business, Wall even skipped ESPN's award show to stay in Vegas for a rookie meeting.
Posted: 1:10 PM Saying she didn't want her reputation tarnished, or her Olympic medal taken away by someone's bad decision, former UK sprinter Passion Richardson embarked on a nearly three year crusade to keep both. On Friday, Richardson got word around 9:00 a.m., from her attorney, that both would remain intact.
Posted: 11:14 AM "We're all like brothers," John Wall said of the five former Wildcats now entering their rookie NBA seasons.
Posted: 5:36 PM UK fans, remember Clifford Rozier? Then-UK coach Rick Pitino made the 6-foot-11 center a priority when Rozier decided to transfer out of North Carolina.
Posted: 4:59 PM Rev. Ed Bradley has been a fixture on Rick Pitino's UK and U of L benches since the coach first came to Kentucky in 1989. Serving as team chaplain, Bradley, from Henderson, has been a close Pitino confidant.
Updated: 6:20 PM John Wall now will NOT be attending the ESPY awards shown, as previously scheduled.
Updated: 11:28 AM DeMarcus Cousins isn't shy about what he wants to do this season in Sacremento.
Posted: 10:47 AM Patrick Patterson is officially a Houston Rocket.
Posted: 10:28 AM Think there might be a few teams regretting not selecting former Wildcat DeMarcus Cousins in the first four picks of the NBA Draft?
Posted: 10:18 AM The top pick in the NBA Draft isn't playing again until Thursday, but John Wall still is a busy man.
Posted: 7:00 PM Over the past few years, Big Blue Madness has become quite the show. UK's official start to the basketball season left the cozy confines of Memorial Coliseum in October 2005.
Posted: 6:19 PM Sadly, one of UK's greatest offensive players took his own life on Thursday, when the Fayette Co. coroner ruled Melvin Turpin committed suicide.
Posted: 4:01 PM Saying he could better ways to spend his money, UK quarterback Morgan Newton, flanked by his younger brothers, delivered shower sandals on Friday to needy men at Lexington's Hope Center. "I spend my money on much other useless stuff. This is probably the least I can do," Newton said.
Posted: 7:31 PM ESPN college basketball analyst Doug Gottlieb is predicting that, for the second year in a row, the best NBA prospect plays for Kentucky.
Updated: 7:36 PM Former UK defensive coordinator Mike Archer is one lucky man. So is wife Barb. That's because the couple escaped serious injuries after the car they were traveling in was involved in a terrible crash in late June.
Posted: 12:28 PM John Calipari led a campaign that raised more than $1 million for earthquake victims in Haiti. Last week, the coach backed up his commitment, by flying to Haiti to see the devastation, first-hand.
Posted: 9:50 PM UK coach John Calipari created quite a stir following the NBA Draft, which saw five of his players selected in the first round, a record from one school.
Updated: 6:18 PM For former UK player Dwane Casey, it's a hurry-up-and-wait deal with the LA Clippers.
Posted: 3:21 PM Former Wildcat big man Daniel Orton has signed his pro contract.
Updated: 5:51 PM Terri Krebs, mother of former UK walk-on Mark Krebs, passed away on Wednesday in northern Kentucky.
Posted: 11:28 AM Former Wildcats Daniel Orton and Joe Crawford will be teammates when the NBA's Summer League begins next week.
Posted: 11:19 AM John Wall was the No. 1 pick in last week's NBA Draft and now is the face of the Washington Wizards franchise. But will he be the man in DC?
Updated: 6:25 PM - A southern Kentucky grandfather is speaking out, about the charges he faces from jail that accuse him of trying to kidnap his granddaughter.
Updated: 6:38 PM - Officials say the fire started in the Second Stage costume shop on Hambley Boulevard in downtown Pikeville and quickly spread to the residence behind it.
Updated: 6:22 PM - An investigation is underway after Lexington Police say a child found a marijuana joint in a backpack at a daycare.
Updated: 5:41 PM - Lexington Police investigators have obtained an arrest warrant for a suspect in the shooting of a teen shot and killed Wednesday night.
Updated: 6:28 PM - Democratic state Rep. Derrick Graham has been named chairman of the House Education Committee.
Updated: 6:21 PM - A south-central Kentucky city is hoping to capture methane gas from a regional landfill and turn it into electricity.
Posted: 2:40 PM - A Canadian man facing federal charges of stalking the brother of actress Jennifer Lawrence in Kentucky has been ordered to undergo a psychiatric exam.
Posted: 2:24 PM - The U.S. Department of Energy has rejected a proposal that would have extended operations at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant.
Updated: 6:34 PM - This was supposed to be a time to celebrate the end of the school year, but some Lexington students are instead planning a vigil to remember a classmate.
Updated: 6:22 PM - The collapse of that bridge in Washington state is raising questions here in Kentucky about the safety of the more than 13-thousand bridges in the Commonwealth. We've learned a bridge is closed this mid-day because state highway officials deemed it too unstable for traffic.