John Calipari will be UK’s 22nd men’s basketball head coach. UK Athletics sent an e-mail at 9:41 p.m. on Tuesday, which officially announced the signing of Calipari to an eight-year deal. He will be announced as UK’s head coach during a Wednesday news conference at 9:30 a.m. Former UK great Tony Delk, who played against [...]
When people talk about the Southeastern Conference in football, powerhouse names like Nick Saban, Urban Meyer and Les Miles are thrown around. With the hire of John Calipari as the new head coach of men’s basketball at UK, the same can be said about SEC basketball as well. Think of it — Calipari, Billy Donovan, [...]
Continue reading …New UK head coach John Calipari has built a reputation as one of the country’s best recruiters. As a result, more than just his reputation may be following him to Lexington. Calipari had assembled what Sporting News columnist Brian McLaughlin called “one of the greatest classes of all time,†including ESPN’s No. 1 player in [...]
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OK, now that the coaching campaign is over, John Calipari is here, and Billy Gillispie is sitting in his home in Nicholasville looking at the “Help Wanted†rather than the “Sports†section of his newspaper, it seems like a good time to remind Coach Cal how this whole thing came to be. For the past [...]
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By Austin Schmitt By mixing song, dance and clap into one, UK sororities and fraternities put their feet to the ground and “stomped†the night away at the fourth-annual Stomp-A-Palooza. About 900 people attended Stomp-A-Palooza, hosted by Alpha Phi Alpha and Kappa Alpha Theta, which showcased the stomp routines performed by sororities and fraternities. All [...]
Continue reading …By Brian Shlonsky Some liquor stores have seen a recent increase in sales as people stocked up in preparation for a state alcohol and cigarette tax hike that goes into effect Wednesday. The new tax applies Kentucky’s six percent sales tax to all alcoholic beverages and will double the state tax on cigarettes from 30 [...]
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The leaders on UK’s football team might not be known when the 2009-10 season starts. Sure, there will be familiar names, including rising senior defensive stars Jeremy Jarmon, Trevard Lindley and Micah Johnson as some of the likely candidates to become vocal leaders of the team on their campaign to appear in a school-record fourth-consecutive [...]
Continue reading …Twenty years ago, Dana Canedy walked on UK’s campus as a journalism student. Now, she’s the senior editor of The New York Times. “All I had was a dream, a good education … It turns out, it was good enough,†Canedy said. The UK alumna was invited to campus to give a lecture entitled “I [...]
Continue reading …By Cassidy Myers Students can get a taste of Africa during an event Wednesday featuring traditional music, food and poetry. “Taste of Africa†is organized by members of the African Student Association and sponsored by the Student Activities Board and will include a fashion show featuring traditional African clothing from various countries, African music, traditional [...]
Continue reading …By Melissa A. Eslinger Weeks of campaigning will end Thursday night for the top spot in UK’s Student Government. Three candidates are running in the bid for the SG presidency: Colby Khoshreza, Tyler Owen and Ryan Smith. All three plan on handing out campaign fliers this week with polling information and solicitations for votes. There [...]
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