Kentucky Wildcats Morning Quickies: Apple Developer's Conference Edition

Apple announced all sorts of things in the kickoff of their Worldwide Developer's Conference in San Francisco, except for one — no new devices.

Tweet of the Morning

Hearing from multiple sources that Kentucky is strongly in the mix for transfer Leticia Romero, who led Kansas State in scoring last season.

— Jen Smith (@jenheraldleader) June 2, 2014

That's exciting news! Romero has been the subject of extensive commentary as Kansas St. has repeatedly tried to block her transfer.

Your Quickies:

Kentucky football

• Guess who made the final five in the OL competition? 2016 prime target Drake Jackson of Woodford County and 2015 UK commit Mason Wolfe of Henderson County. Congrats are in order. {Hank}

• Recruit of the Week: Defensive end Darius Fullwood.

• Javess Blue is #86 on Saturday Down South's top 100 in the SEC. Consider:

  Blue’s a weapon for either passer and could be in for a stellar final campaign as the Wildcats’ No. 1 option for offensive coordinator Neal Brown. To give him more touches, Kentucky will continue to utilize Blue’s quickness on special teams as well as its primary punt and kickoff return man — similar to the way former playmaker and current Green Bay Packers wideout Randall Cobb was used in Lexington.

  Read the whole thing.

Kentucky basketball

• Jarrod Polson is certain about John Calipari's motives:

  “I am sure it gives him some pride to go to as many Final Fours and championships as he has been,” said Polson. “I think that is a good thing, but I really do feel like he cares more about his players than his own accomplishments. Playing for a guy like that makes you want to win for him because you know how much he wants you to win for yourself, not him. [my emphasis]

  I really don't think there's much doubt about this. Only cynics and haters believe otherwise, in my view.

• Calipari thinks Randle will be much better suited for the NBA:

  “He was quadruple-teamed last year. No one in college basketball was played how he was played and so it took a little bit away from that, whatever you want to say, that shine. We, again, were trying to win games so there were times he could have been doing more on the perimeter, but we were trying to win.”

• Coach Cal has confirmed the Bahamas tour for the Wildcats this summer:

  Caliapari said UK will play six national teams, many of which contain current NBA players, this August. In conjunction with the trip — Division I teams are allowed to take them once every four years — the Wildcats will get 10 extra practices.

  The last one of these really did the team a world of good. I hope this one does as well.

• For practice next season, it's football pads from the beginning. Via Aaron's blog

Other Kentucky sports

• New UK hoops assistant one of the game's top recruiters.

• UK softball learns lessons from first trip to the WCWS. They plan to be back more often. I hope so.

• UK waxes philosophical about the loss to Louisville.

Links posts

• John Clay's Big Blue Links

• John Clay's SEC Links

• The Leach Report: Tuesday Wildcat Links

College football

• The SEC has a new tiebreaker system in football.

• SEC coordinator of officials tries to explain "holding":

  “From a coaching perspective, it’s a pretty regimented, defined area. So the players and coaches know,” Shaw said. “We kid: There are two types of offensive linemen: Good holders and bad holders, and we penalize the bad holders.”

  ...

  “By rule, as long as you’re in proper position, as long as you keep your hands inside his frame, you can pretty much do anything – as long as you’ve got good position on him and as he moves you’re still in good position.

  Meanwhile, Senator Blutarsky is skeptical.

• Mack Brown to become TV analyst.

• Paul Finebaum added to the SEC Nation show.

• Heh. Like Auburn, Ole Miss wants to claim a few championships, too.

• Ranking college football's transfer quarterbacks.

• Breaking down the SEC schedules. Jerry Palm says Kentucky is 23rd, South Carolina the highest in the SEC at 3rd.

College basketball

• Talk that the L.A. Lakers might be interested in Larry Brown. Well, Brown's been at SMU just about long enough.

Other sports news

• Will another Dookie be joining ESPN? They employ half the school's ex-players as it is. Okay, yes, that's a bit hyperbolic.

• Donald Sterling being sued by ex-mistress for racist comments, among other things.

• John Wall to spend more time this summer working out with Bradley Beal. Hat tip: Aaron's blog

Other news

• News you can use: This free app will translate text simply by pointing your iPhone's camera at it.

• Teacher attendance a problem in big city school districts. How about truancy officers for teachers as well as kids?