Kentucky Wildcats Morning Quickies and Open Thread: Last Basketball For A While Edition

News and commentary from around the Big Blue Internet. Kentucky plays Dominican Republic again at 1PM today. Mark Stoops encouraged by practice scrimmage. More.

By Glenn Logan Aug 17, 2014, 10:37am EDT

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Today is the last basketball game we get to watch the Kentucky Wildcats play for about two months, so be sure to enjoy it.

Tweet of the Morning

Mother Teresa in Jenkins, Ky. June 1982 opening the 1st Appalachian mission established by her order of nuns pic.twitter.com/pR081oQfTr
— KY Photo Archive (@KYPhotoArchive) August 17, 2014

Remembering Mother Theresa

Your Quickies:

Kentucky football

Videos from UK’s second scrimmage yesterday:

Stoops praises the passing game, first string defense. Dorian Baker continues to get praise. He says he feels much more confident than at any time last year.

Kentucky’s coordinators talk about the team.

Some good things said about linebacker Ryan Flannigan, running back Mikel Horton and Dorian Baker. Some offensive line guys like Kyle Meadows also drew praise. Hat tip: John Clay

Kentucky basketball

Trey Lyles and Willie Cauley-Stein update their injury status.
Calipari Basketball Experience expands.
In case you missed it, UK’s conference schedule.

Other Kentucky sports

Women’s Soccer wins an exhibition match against the Portland Pilots. We’ve played Portland several times in basketball now. Looks like we have a good sports relationship with them.

Links posts

College football

Kentucky’s not the only SEC team struggling to find a starting quarterback. Hey, if Nick Saban can wait, I guess Mark Stoops can.
Brian Kelly talks about the investigation by Notre Dame into academic integrity issues. I’ll give Notre Dame a lot of credit for being proactive in these matters, unlike some other school I could name < cough > UNC < /cough >.
CFB Playoff still creates problems for the little guys. And I care about this because … oh, that’s right, I don’t.
Heh.
Vols name a starting quarterback.

College basketball

You may have heard that the North Carolina Tar Heels did not fare so well in their opener in the Bahamas. I want to point out that they are also playing vastly inferior competition when compared to Kentucky.
Vanderbilt loses Dai-Jon Parker. He apparently did something that the school, or the basketball program, were unwilling to tolerate. This is a major setback for Vandy, who has suffered an increasing number of setbacks lately.

Other sports news

Team USA under17 wins another FIBA World Championship, defeating Austrailia 99-92 yesterday in Dubai. Malik Newman and Jayson Tatum, both UK recruits, led the team in scoring.
Oh, man, this is disgusting.

Wait. Is that bird poop?!! http://t.co/FsWLQbadY3 https://t.co/uxSyeo5dX7
— SB Nation (@SBNation) August 17, 2014
What’s this? A new, humble Johnny Football? Don’t bet on it.

Former UK players in the NBA

Anthony Davis upstages Derrick Rose in the United Center.

Other news

News you can use: Is antivirus software dead? Run Linux like I do an you won’t worry about that question as much. Note the qualifier there — no operating system is invulnerable, some are just more vulnerable than others.
Five signs Americans are broke.
Bourbon production at an all-time high. That’s good news to me!