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Kentucky Basketball Recruiting: Derek Willis Becomes the Wildcats' First 2013 Commitment
As expected by the Internet, 2013 power forward Derek Willis committed to the University of Kentucky at a press conference from his high school, Bullitt East. Willis is an area product from Mt. Washington, Kentucky. He's a highly regarded prospect in the class of 2013, ranking as a high four star:...
No. 2 Kentucky 68, Auburn 53: Same Story, Different Ending
Georgia, Alabama, Ole Miss, Florida, Vanderbilt, and Arkansas -- Those six teams represent the sextet of SEC road losses the Kentucky Wildcats suffered last year, road losses UK coach John Calipari was telling anyone with a microphone about leading up to the 'Cats first league road game of the year...
Kentucky Wildcat Basketball: All I want for Christmas is ...
As Santa readies his reindeer and fills his sleigh with goodies for all the good boys and girls who find themselves on the North Pole Nice List, it's time to reveal what I requested from the bearded one this year. Keeping in line with my extremely unselfish nature (that's my wife laughing...
Louisville's Chane Behanan: "We're going undefeated"
I'm sure Rick Pitino has plenty of headaches. First of all, he's coaching at Louisville, that alone is enough to give anyone a migraine, and second, his team can't shoot -- The Cards are making less than 45% from the field and 31.5% from the 3-point line. UofL does play pretty good defense, though...
Kentucky Wildcat Basketball: Eight for Eight
As the sun rises on yet another Kentucky basketball season, giving birth to the same questions and discussions that take place every year in anticipation of what is to come, the urgency of the dawning season suddenly takes center stage. For this year, what is at stake is a very real chance to take...
Calipari vs. Pitino: Who Was "First?"
The Card Chronicle has this piece yesterday discussing a Gary Parrish article in which Parrish finds it telling that Calipari used the term, "players first" over and over again during his speech the other night at Big Blue Madness. First, Parrish: So I was walking around Louisville's practice...
Another A Sea of Blue Exclusive: Rick Bozoich and Rick Pitino Collude to Smear John Calipari
By now, most of the Big Blue Nation, which includes about 60% of the city of Louisville, has heard about, or read Courier-Journal "sportswriter" Rick Bozoich's article stating that Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari has a serious case of Rick Pitino envy. (I'll wait, I'll wait) Now that you've...
John Calipari Draws Out The Worst In Sportswriters
Just yesterday I noted how Kentucky coach John Calipari's offhand dismissal of the Louisville Cardinals for the Kentucky fan media had produced a satisfyingly petulant whine around some in the national media as well as Cardinal fan sites, but nothing out there even comes close to the hilarious...
Kentucky Wildcats Basketball: Calipari Reminds Somebody To Beware The Scorpion
Call me cynical, but I am convinced that for the most part, John Calipari has a reason for doing everything he does. So what was Coach Cal's motivation for reminding Kentucky fans of an old adage on CoachCal.com that probably everyone from the state over the age of 20 has heard -- the parable of...
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