Williams will seek transfer
Posted: 5:31 PM Earlier this year, UK coach Billy Gillispie said freshman big man Morakinyo Williams likely would be transferring to another school. Now it seems apparant that Williams is on his way out.
Posted: 5:31 PM Earlier this year, UK coach Billy Gillispie said freshman big man Morakinyo Williams likely would be transferring to another school. Now it seems apparant that Williams is on his way out.
Posted: 4:52 PM LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - It will be at least two more weeks before additional information is known about what caused the filly Eight Belles to break down in the Kentucky Derby.
Posted: 4:49 PM ATLANTA (AP) - UPS believes Big Brown is the complete package. The shipping giant is trying to capitalize on Kentucky Derby winner Big Brown, whose minority owner named the horse in the company's honor.
Updated: 1:31 PM Our Rob Bromley got the chance to sit down with UK basketball signee Josh Harrellson. Follow this link to watch the videos.
Updated: 5:42 PM Tom Hammond is a busy man these days. The former Lafayette product and UK grad has become the face of NBC’s thoroughbred racing coverage, but around Central Kentucky, Wildcat fans know Hammond as a fixture on Raycom Sports’ SEC basketball broadcasts.
Posted: 1:12 PM LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - The death of Kentucky Derby runner-up Eight Belles has the thoroughbred industry taking a closer look at equine safety.
Posted: 12:26 PM KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- In a tie for the eighth and final spot in the Southeastern Conference Tournament with Tennessee, the No. 22 Kentucky baseball team hits the road for its final road series of the season, a pivotal three-game set with the Volunteers, beginning on Friday at 7 p.m. ET at Lindsey Nelson Stadium.
Posted: 10:00 AM Madisonville's Jon Hood became the fifth player in the last two weeks to commit to play basketball at Kentucky. Hood, a 6-foot-6 junior, had offers from Georgia, Georgia Tech, Tennessee and Mississippi.
Posted: 9:18 AM Former Scott Co. star and Ms. Basketball Rebecca Gray has been given her release from North Carolina and plans to meet with UK coach Matthew Mitchell next week about transferring to the school.
Posted: 8:43 PM Rowan County Junior Amber Riddle broke the Kentucky High School record for home runs in a career with her 31st earlier this week. We caught up with her and her coach to talk about the accomplishment.
Posted: 6:37 PM Former UK Quarterback Andre' Woodson spoke publicly for the first time Tuesday about being drafted in the 6th round of the NFL Draft. Woodson was told up until the draft he would be a 2nd round selection. Listen to what he had to say as part of our podcast, Wildcat Nation.
Posted: 5:21 PM LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky Derby champion Big Brown returned to the track at Churchill Downs on Wednesday, four days after his 4¾-length win in the Run for the Roses.
Posted: 4:54 PM WKYT traveled to Illinois to talk with future Kentucky Wildcat Josh Harrellson about coming to Lexington. On Thursday, we will run longer versions of this interview, but here's a preview of what he had to say.
Posted: 9:15 PM Andre Woodson spoke publicly for the first time on Wednesday about his disappointing NFL Draft. He will have to battle it out with another former UK quarterback, Jared Lorenzen to win a roster spot from the New York Giants
Updated: 10:43 PM The trainer of euthanized filly Eight Belles adamantly defended the way jockey Gabriel Saez handled the Kentucky Derby runner-up. In an interview with The Associated Press on Monday, Larry Jones said Saez applied the whip only to prevent Eight Belles from crashing into the rail.
Updated: 9:43 PM Matt Clark’s two-run home run with two outs in the top of the ninth erased a 8-7 Kentucky lead, as the streaking LSU Tigers ran its win streak up to nine games with a 9-8 win over the 16th-ranked Wildcats, on a beautiful Sunday afternoon at Cliff Hagan Stadium.
Posted: 7:31 PM Big Brown gobbled up a few peppermints and did some leisurely laps around his barn Sunday while camera-snapping admirers gawked at the dominant winner of the Kentucky Derby. What they saw was a colt who defied Derby history with his 4¾-length victory a day earlier. Big Brown became the first horse since the filly Regret in 1915 to win the Derby off just three career starts and the second to win from post position No. 20. "I don't know who's going to beat him," said Graham Motion, who trained 19th-place Adriano. "To win off three starts ... even Curlin could not do that."
Updated: 9:01 PM The former coach received a honorary Doctor of Humanities degree at UK's commencement
Posted: 9:56 PM LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Riding a 25-2 home record entering Saturday’s doubleheader, the No. 16 Kentucky Wildcats dropped both games of a twinbill to the streaking LSU Tigers – winners of eight consecutive games – 3-1, 12-5, on a windy Saturday afternoon at Cliff Hagan Stadium.
Posted: 9:23 PM By RICHARD ROSENBLATT AP Racing Writer LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Big Brown backed up his trainer's boasts with an explosive finishing kick and won the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, a commanding victory turned somber by the fatal breakdown of the filly Eight Belles on horse racing's biggest day.
Updated: 6:54 PM By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Larry Jones is halfway to history. Proud Spell drew away down the stretch to win the $500,000 Kentucky Oaks on Friday at Churchill Downs, giving her homespun trainer a shot at pulling off an unprecedented Oaks-Kentucky Derby double.
Posted: 5:16 PM By RICHARD ROSENBLATT AP Racing Writer LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - All week, the chatter along the Churchill Downs backstretch has been about Big Brown running away with the Kentucky Derby.
Posted: 4:41 PM By BEN WALKER AP National Writer LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - When it comes to picking a Kentucky Derby favorite, a lot of people simply play the name game. Be it cute, curious or catchy, that can be the deciding factor.
Posted: 11:50 PM Lofton played last season after undergoing treatment for testicular cancer, revealing to ESPN.com that he had surgery in March 2007 and four weeks of radiation starting last May.
Posted: 4:26 PM New UK Basketball signee Josh Harrelson says Billy Gillispie has told him he could get 60-70 touches per game. The forward also talks about the biggest crowd he played in front of last year in junior college.
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