Kentucky Wildcats Sunday Quickies: American Pharoah Edition

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By Glenn Logan May 17, 2015, 10:45am EDT

American Pharoah is now only one race away from legend. He has successfully navigated the first two prongs of the Triple Crown, and now only the Belmont, well known as the graveyard of Triple Crown aspirants, stands in his way.

What an impressive win it was, in the middle of a raging thunderstorm. If this horse does win the Triple Crown, the Preakness victory in unbelievable conditions will only add to the legend.

Tweet of the Morning

Congrats to Coach Henderson, staff & team on winning the final series at Missouri. Great momentum for @UKBaseball going in to SEC tourney.
— Keith Madison (@KeithMadison32) May 17, 2015

Your Quickies:

Kentucky football

Class breakdown: UK football sophomores. It will be good to see Jeff Badet back, and how good is Matt Elam going to be in his second year?

Kentucky basketball

Catching up with ex-Wildcat Bobby Perry and his country music band. Pretty cool, Bobby.
Willie (I think I figured out what the “Trill” is — he’s got an alien symbiotic organism inside him that gives him his super powers) Cauley-Stein works out for the Knicks today.

Other Kentucky sports

Track and filed wins three titles at SEC outdoors.
Wildcats Track and Field earns silver and bronze in SEC discus.
Softball takes on Notre Dame for a trip to the super-regional round today.
Bat Cats take out Missouri in Columbia, head to the SEC Tournament on an uptick.
Bat Cats a #8 seed, will take on #9 Auburn in the first round of the SEC Tournament.

Links posts

College football

Texas A&M was #2 in football attendance last season.
The greatest obstacle in college football is the enemy within. With such a large number of athletes, I’m not surprised.
SEC, Big Ten tops in attendance in college football.

College basketball

Louisiana Tech to hire Miami assistant Eric Konkol as head basketball coach after losing their coach to Florida.
Sterling Gibbs, ex Seaton Hall player, transfers to UConn.

Other sports news

It’s game 7 for the Clippers and Rockets. The winner will advance to probably become the next victim of Golden State.

Other news

Gene editing technology could pave the way for a sickle-cell anemia cure. Faster, please.
Well, why not? Cleaning up space junk with a laser cannon. Hey, space is a target-rich environment these days around Earth.
5 reasons why your to-do lists aren’t working for you. I’ve been working on todo list issues for months, and I’m finally getting close to perfecting a system that works for me.