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UK Football vs. UK Basketball: Brooks Ain’t Zeus, but He’s Trying
Last Updated: 8:06 PM 10/05/09 - It was a few minutes after yet another frustrating UK loss, this one at Georgia in 1989. Once again, the Wildcats had blown an opportunity to spill one of the SEC’s Big Boys; instead, they couldn’t get out of their own way and had lost, 34-23..... (Full Story) |
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Hartline Was Much Improved, But His Critics Await
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Last Updated: 1:10 PM 09/08/09 - Thoughts scribbled on Post-It notes at Fountain Square in Cincinnati… (Full Story) |
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The 2009 Football Wildcats Will Finish…
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Last Updated: 4:59 PM 08/31/09 - It wasn’t inconceivable, writing about a UK football team that in 2009 could be setting its sights on a bowl appearance. A few years back it seemed possible. Only, what seemed likely was that the head coach would be someone other than Rich Brooks. (Full Story) |
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From the Sidelines: Freshman Starting Quarterback? Be Careful What You Wish For
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Last Updated: 5:05 PM 08/06/09 - It will come after the first loss; maybe after the first incomplete pass. The pleas from the “faithful,” the fans who believe they have UK’s best football interests at heart. They will scream, shout, cajole, implore – whatever they deem it necessary for head coach Rich Brooks to make a change. (Full Story) |
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UK Fans Want Recruiting Results, Without the Mess
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Last Updated: 4:14 PM 06/04/09 - No matter what his level of culpability within the current investigation at his former school, John Calipari’s reputation always will precede him. And that bothers a faction of Kentucky fans. (Full Story) |
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Jeremy Jarmon: The NCAA Got It Wrong
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Last Updated: 3:20 PM 05/28/09 - In 1983-84, I worked in the old Southwest Conference, back when Southern Methodist was on trial with the NCAA and wound up getting the Death Penalty. The program eventually returned, but it’s never been the same, and that’s a good thing. (Full Story) |
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From the Sidelines - Manny Ramirez
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Last Updated: 5:31 PM 05/08/09 - Baseball players, the dirty ones, already have squared up to a similar query, although it seems they’ve spent maybe a nanosecond thinking about it: Sure, there could be a lot to gain if I start shooting steroids – but what am I giving up? (Full Story) |
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Who Would Root Against Mine That Bird?
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Last Updated: 7:13 PM 05/05/09 - It took 72 hours, but I finally found it – ill will toward Mine That Bird. And I wasn’t even looking for it. (Full Story) |
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What's So Great About the Kentucky Job?
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Last Updated: 10:16 AM 03/30/09 - Many of the national media, ignoring the excellent advice of the Herald-Leader’s Mark Story, are taking the “lazy” angle on the UK basketball coaching story. They’re invoking the “beware of the short fuse” argument against any coach accepting the job in Lexington. (Full Story) |
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UK Basketball: How Did It Come to This?
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Last Updated: 7:32 PM 03/24/09 - We had no way of knowing that Kentucky’s loss to Kansas in the 2007 NCAA Tournament would be Tubby Smith’s last game as the UK head coach. What has to be a bigger shock is just the suggestion that a loss to Creighton Monday night in the National Invitation Tournament could mark the end of the Billy Gillispie era as well. (Full Story) |
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History Came Back to Life in Memorial Coliseum
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Last Updated: 2:45 PM 03/18/09 - Sure, it was the NIT. Nobody - NOBODY - saw this team playing in anything but the NCAA tournament when it was 16-4 (5-0 in the Southeastern Conference). We all saw Kentucky crumble down the stretch, as no team has in a long, long time. (Full Story) |
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From the Sidelines - Basketball Season Shouldn’t Be Like This
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Last Updated: 10:24 AM 03/04/09 - E-mails, text messages, calls to “Sports Nightly” (thanks for those – keep ‘em coming), all reflective of the misery permeating throughout the Big Blue Nation. Basketball season shouldn’t be like this. (Full Story) |
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A Foul Trip to Myrtle Beach – It’s Just Not Fair
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Last Updated: 1:18 PM 02/24/09 - A trip to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, in the dead of winter? What’s not to like?...Turns out, almost everything. (Full Story) |
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Gillispie Giving Edwards the Hal Mumme Treatment
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Last Updated: 1:32 PM 02/12/09 - So you’ve just been handed the keys to the castle. You’re a Big Blue fan, your favorite coach at your disposal, and you have a chance to ask one – just one – question. What would it be? (Full Story) |
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From the Sidelines - Bowl Games
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Last Updated: 12:45 PM 01/26/09 - All the haters, the naysayers in and around the college football bowl scene, the media screamers, bloggers and talk show hosts (and callers) who say, "Nobody cares about the bowl games" - they're talking to you. (Full Story) |
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In Knoxville, or Lexington – Seeing Meeks Is Believing
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Last Updated: 8:51 AM 01/15/09 - If you’re not going to be courtside when a Kentucky player goes on a record-breaking tear, be sure to watch the game with friends, including a couple of ex-Wildcats who know a little something about how to shoot. (Full Story) |
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Pitino Likes What He Sees – In Wildcats
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Last Updated: 2:02 PM 01/06/09 - Rick Pitino was in an upbeat mood, which you would expect from a coach who just saw his head-case-of-a-point guard, a guy who earlier that week he’d urged to transfer, hit a 28-foot shot to beat Kentucky on national television. (Full Story) |
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UK Already Has Lived Through the Race Controversy Gripping Auburn Football
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Last Updated: 1:48 PM 12/16/08 - This is the time of year when the football coaching carousel is spinning at top speed. Coaches go – they’re either fired, they retire, or they “get retired." (Full Story) |
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Didn’t a Bowl Bid Sound Good in August?
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Last Updated: 9:01 AM 12/10/08 - In today’s college football world, a half-dozen wins, and a pulse, often lands you in post-season play. Start rolling your eyes now as a I date myself; I remember when there were just a handful of bowls, when eight and even nine wins might not keep your season alive. (Full Story) |
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Liggins, Marbury Stories Play Out Differently – Right In Front of Us
Last Updated: 12:43 PM 12/02/08 - They were stories breaking on different sides of the country. One involved professional basketball, the other, college. At the center of each was one of the most storied teams in the history of their respective strains of the sport. They were similar and yet, each couldn’t have been more different. And “we” – members of the Big Blue Sports Network – had front-row seats. (Full Story) |
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