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Today is Kentucky Oaks day, a day I have taken off every year for the past decade just to sit back and bet on the ponies, have a Bloody Mary and a Mint Julep or three. Should be fun.
Tweet of the Morning
@wildcatnews today's top 10 plays! Check out this video on YouTube: http://t.co/kZS42FUvr6
— John Clay (@agentjohnclay) May 2, 2014
This is awesome!
Your Quickies:
Kentucky football
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Kentucky in 4 Star's top ten (Hank):
Top 10 (No Order), Here it is! pic.twitter.com/5wNruLlw0P
— Darrin Kirkland Jr. (@_KIRKjunior) May 2, 2014Pretty sure this is for 2015 recruiting.
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Neal Brown visits Madisonville North Hopkins' Culen Reynolds, another Center who also plays DE (Hank):
Coach Neal Brown stopped by to see me today!
— Cullen Reynolds (@cullen_reynolds) May 1, 2014 -
Graves County HS DE Heath Wiggins also received a visit (Hank):
UK just stopped by #BBN
— Heath Wiggins (@WigginsHeath) May 1, 2014 -
Kyle at Wildcat Blue Nation says Kentucky looks to be a lot better in 2014 (Hank).
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Kentucky currently stands at #26 in the 2015 recruiting rankings (Hank).
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Mark Stoops still undecided on starting QB. I'd honestly be very surprised if it was anyone other than Towles. The position appears to be his to lose.
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Wanna see Kentucky vs. Florida next fall? You'll need the SEC Network.
Kentucky basketball
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Barry Rohrssen officially joins Kentucky's coaching staff. This has been known for a while, even if it hasn't been made "official."
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This lament is just silly, in my view. I'd love to see Randle play three more years at Kentucky, but I'll remember him. What's my favorite Randall memory? That's easy — his game against Michigan State, where the Spartans did everything but pull out a gun and shoot him, and still couldn't stop him. He was magnificent.
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Coach Cal will have his hip replaced today. Good luck to him, I hope it goes well.
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Calipari's "Players first" remains on the NYT Best-Sellers list for the second straight week.
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Kentucky's recruiting class is #2 this season after final recruiting evaluations. This also happens to be the first season when Kentucky doesn't need a #1 class.
Other Kentucky sports
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Kentucky hires Christian Stephanopoulos as assistant women's basketball coach. She was the Wildcats' video coordinator before getting the assistant coach gig at Bucknell.
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Kyvin Goodin-Rogers, who suffered from a pulmonary embolism, has been cleared to return to the Hoops squad.
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Softball heads down to Georgia for their final SEC game today at 4:00 EDT.
Links posts
College football
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Pac-12, B1G coaches whine about SEC staying at eight league games while they go to nine. Sorry, my response is "up yours, losers."
College football is the SEC’s world and the rest of it is just taking a number. That leads Mike Leach, the Washington State coach, to say, "If I was the SEC, I’d probably keep it that way. They’re fairly clever to do it."
That's how it is.
College basketball
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Dana O'Neil looks back at some of the "other" teams in college basketball last season.
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Rick Barnes signing of Myles Turner raises expectation for Texas. I'm pretty sure that's a good thing based on what has been going on down there the last couple of seasons. It was nice of Coach Cal to call him and congratulate him.
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Mark Story says that the SEC is a winner in the coaching carousel if you don't care about NCAA violations.
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Tennessee gets a good commitment for next season from Jabari McGhee.
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Bruins Nation seems to be asking the Lakers to take Steve Alford off their hands.
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Myles Turner gives Texas a "super-sized" front line. Yeah, pretty big, I guess. Yawn.
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Nice.
Other sports news
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Donald Sterling is battling prostate cancer. I suspect that means the NBA has a fight on its hands.
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NBA investigates Twitter threats sent to Wizards. I know right where to go — Colin Cowherd.
Other news
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OMG, it's Star Wars Day today! May the fourth be with you — and the Schartz, too.