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UK head coach Rich Brooks danced around questions concerning his uncertain future with the Cats at his Monday news conference. When asked whether Saturday’s game against Tennessee would be his final one in Commonwealth Stadium, Brooks didn’t give a definitive answer. “As far as whether I’m coming back next year, I’m kind of like that [...]

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By Nick Craddock For two sophomore guards on the UK women’s basketball team, returning to the Bluegrass was almost as easy as tapping the heels of their basketball shoes together three times and saying “There’s no place like home.” Rebecca Gray, a Georgetown, Ky., native and the 2007 Miss Kentucky Basketball, and Keyla Snowden, a [...]

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Volleyball senior class excels during four years

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By T.J. Walker Three of the UK volleyball program’s winningest players will never play a regular season home match again. No. 10 UK (27-3, 17-2 Southeastern Conference) said goodbye to seniors Brooke Bartek, Sarah Rumely and BriAnne Sauer on Sunday in their final home match vs. Florida. “Those seniors have given us so much,” UK [...]

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Kernel in Print – Nov. 24, 2009

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By Nick Craddock The UK women’s basketball team’s torrid offensive start to the season turned tepid Sunday as UK looked for a solution. The answer was defensive intensity, and the result was a 65-55 victory over Chattanooga in front of 4,301 fans at Memorial Coliseum. “I told them the only way we can get it [...]

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By T.J. Walker Memorial Coliseum was all set for a historic day on Sunday, but the history the No. 10 UK volleyball team (27-3, 17-2 Southeastern Conference) expected will have to wait. The No. 13 Florida Gators (21-5, 15-4 SEC) have won the SEC title for 18 straight seasons. This year the Gators played another [...]

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The Board of Trustees is on a roll. First, they disallow any outside voices to be heard on the Wildcat Lodge issue, and now the board decides the current policy for getting on their agenda works just fine. According to a Nov. 18 Kernel article, UK President Lee Todd, a committee and the full Board [...]

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In June, the former Kentucky Alpha Chapter of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity was charged with hazing. Now, just five months later, another fraternity faces the same charges. The UK chapter of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity has been charged with hazing, violating the university’s Code of Student Conduct, said Associate Dean of Students Tony Blanton. [...]

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Former Kernel staffers win Hearst awards

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Two former Kernel staff members used a mineral and a historic city neighborhood to create award-winning stories. Out of 142 entrants in the Hearst Journalism Awards Feature Writing Competition, 2008-09 editor-in-chief Brad Luttrell won first place, and former news editor Jill Laster placed seventh. The Hearst Journalism Awards are a national journalism award for outstanding [...]

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