Kentucky Wildcats Quickies: Changes Coming Edition

After long thought and reflection, the Quickies are changing to better permit your humble correspondent to produce and stay on top of them. What has been happening is that as my work life gets busier and busier, it makes it more difficult to set aside the hour-and-one-half it takes for me to do a normal Quickies post. In order to better accommodate my schedule and still enable me to bring you the news, we will be using a hub to contain all the quickies. That hub will reside just below the normal "cover", which is what we call "five up" because it displays five stories in boxes.

If we decided to switch layouts, which we do from time to time for various reasons, the quickies may move down a bit, but their normal home will be just below what we call the "cover," or the section of main stories at the very top of the page.

The new Quickies will consist of stories, fanshots and possibly even fanposts. This will help keep the news better organized, and help me keep my posts a bit shorter and less time-consuming. It will also help keep the conversation on topic rather than widely disbursed, and I’ll have a catch-all thread every day to enable people to put their own links to news in. I know this is important.

At the top of the news today:

Kentucky football

• Ryan Timmons hopes to shock the Wildcats’ return game back to life. That would be most welcome.

College football

• One of the teens convicted and jailed in the Stubenville, Ohio rape case was allowed back on his high school team. Perhaps he’ll end up being recruited by Louisville? {Via Hank}

• Hank has informed me that according to a source (no link), Luke Hiers may still wind up at Kentucky if he improves over the season. According to what he hears, Hiers just isn’t good enough yet to get a commitable offer.

Kentucky basketball

• UK cancels annual charity game due to lack of availability of former UK players:

  A number of players were unavailable for the event, including DeMarcus Cousins and Anthony Davis who are participating with Team USA, and John Wall, who was committed to a function in China.

  That is definitely bad news. All sold tickets will of course be refunded.

• Running, dunking ‘Cats smother Puerto Rico.

• Unselfishness could make these ‘Cats unique. In a way, I’d say it already has.

Other sports news

• Colin Cowherd blames the tragedy involving Tony Stewart and Kevin Ward Jr. on "the South." As Bugs Bunny used to say, "What a maroon." Hat tip: Real Clear Sports

• Donald Sterling not dead yet in Clippers fight, despite many postmortems having already been written.

  While Sterling’s odds of obtaining a stay are low, he was afforded very little time to react following Levanas signing his probate order. Notably, Shelly Sterling and Ballmer finalized their deal within minutes of [L.A. Superior Court Judge] Levanas signing the order, a short window which arguably denied Sterling adequate time. An appellate court might be sympathetic to Sterling on this narrow issue seeking a stay, especially given that Sterling tried to do so last Friday but was precluded by Levanas’ curious decision to withdraw his order. Alan Milstein, a litigator with Sherman Silvestein, tells SI.com Levanas’ decision was "very strange."

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