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Kentucky Basketball: Devastating Deja Vu
Watching the University of Kentucky basketball team thoroughly dismantle, dismember, and just generally "dis" the Wake Forest Demon Deacons 90-60 Saturday night, I was taken back. Transported, via my memory bank, to March of 1996. Seeing this inexperienced (Kansas was experienced, right?), yet...
Kentucky Basketball: A Season to Embrace
With the official start of the Kentucky basketball season now less than 36 hours away, the sense of anticipation among Big Blue backers is palpable. Found on message boards, blogs, sport's pages, and Starbucks throughout Kentucky, are opinions (some good, some lame), prognostications, and some...
The 10 Best UK Squads to not win a National Championship/Open Thread
I was not planning on posting this evening, but our fearless leader is on a 24 hour road trip, so I thought an Open Thread (with a twist) was called for. Something that me and my UK friends discuss from time to time are the best teams in Kentucky history that didn't win a National Championship. ...
Q & A with "Comeback 'Cat" Jeff Sheppard
Rings. That's all that mattered to Jeff Sheppard ... and he's one of only 15 former Wildcats who have earned the right to wear two NCAA National Championship rings. (Trivia -- Who is the only Wildcat with three NCAA Championships to his name?) Sheppard, a 6'4" 189 pound jumping-jack out of...
UK Basketball: Tennessee, Ramon Harris, and the ever elusive 'third scorer'
Editor's Disclaimer -- I will not allow my innate anti-Tennessee demeanor to improperly effect my thoughts on the upcoming "Titanic struggle" (apologies to Marty B.) between the good guys, and the understandably "unliked" Tennessee Volunteers. Tennessee Please allow me to be as bold as I wanna...
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