Kentucky Wildcats Morning Quickies: B.B. King Edition

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Tweet of the Morning

Kentucky has emerged as a legitimate landing spot for 2015 big man Caleb Swanigan, source told @CBSSports. #BBN

— Jon Rothstein (@JonRothstein) May 15, 2015

Your Quickies:

Kentucky football

• More on Kentucky’s new-look Commonwealth Stadium.

• Kentucky has three quality running backs, but Freddie Maggard writing for KSR says that’s not enough.

• Top UK football commitment for 2016, Landon Young, gets an offer from Auburn. Well, that’s just how it goes, but he claims to be fully committed to UK. I hope so.

Kentucky basketball

• Kentucky back in the mix for Caleb Swanigan. Man, this would be so great if it works out…

  More here from Ben Roberts at NextCats.

• The Harrison twins launch a charm offensive. Yesterday, I saw Matt Jones tweet out that Andrew was the best player on the floor during one of the NBA Combine games. Aaron is still struggling with his shooting, though.

  Andrew Harrison is balling in this Combine game…best player on the floor

  — Matt Jones (@KySportsRadio) May 14, 2015

• Aaron Harrison answers Kyle Tucker’s questions.

Other Kentucky sports

• Bat Cats shut out Mizzou, but does so with only one run. Still, this is a very important series for Kentucky, and this one was a big one. It’s Dustin Beggs turn at the mound tonight at 7 PM.

• Team Speed Kills looks at where SEC baseball stands. Kentucky is definitely an NCAA bubble team at this point, but if they can win the series against Missouri, their chances will improve — drastically with a sweep.

• Softball has had a long time to practice for the NCAA Tournament, and Rachel Lawson says that the Wildcats have had "six great days of practice," and that they haven’t had that since January. Hopefully it pays off.

Links posts

• The Leach Report: Friday Wildcat Links

College football

• Major college football attendance drops to its lowest level since 2003.

• Winning programs vital to college football’s "have nots."

College basketball

• Former North Carolina coach Bill Guthridge has died. Our prayers to his friends and family.

• Luke Winn ranks North Carolina tops in 2015-16 with UK at #2 and Kansas at #3.

Other sports news

• The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Bob Ford thinks that because Victor Espinoza had to whip American Pharoah to get him to win the Kentucky Derby that he can’t win the Triple Crown. Well, we’ll see. Hat tip: Real Clear Sports.

• Tired of seeing NBA teams tank for better draft position? Here’s a clever (and I must admit, fun) way to change that. Hat tip: Real Clear Sports.

Other news

• Robot can crack a combination lock in just seconds. Combination locks are great for securing your books in a locker, but if you have real valuables, might I suggest another option?

• Want to migrate away from Windows? Robolinux might be for you.

  As a Linux user since the mid-1990’s, I can tell you that it has come a long, long way. You can do almost everything on Linux that you can do on Windows, although you’ll have to learn to use different tools, almost all of which are free.

• Meet ITER, acronym for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, being built in the south of France. It won’t be going on line for a while, though.

• What’s the most radioactive city? You might be surprised at some of the cities on this list.