Joker Phillips was introduced as UK’s head football coach on Jan. 6 after spending two years as head-coach-in-waiting. Now, as the Cats prepare to open spring practice on Wednesday, Phillips sat down with the Kernel to talk about his expectations for the team and his time as head coach to this point. Q. Now that [...]
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Imagine creating five businesses and competing in the CBS series “The Amazing Race” all by the time you turned 33. For one entrepreneur, this is his reality, and he — and his shoes — will be on UK’s campus Tuesday. Blake Mycoskie, founder of TOMS Shoes, Inc., will discuss his philanthropic business of helping the [...]
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By Melody Bailiff UK students will have the opportunity to use their Twitter accounts for something other than status updates Tuesday night. The Cats Den and Student Government are hosting a forum featuring the four mayoral candidates — Mayor Jim Newberry, Vice Mayor Jim Gray, former mayor Teresa Isaac and Skip Horine — and the [...]
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Kentucky has become notorious for high obesity rates, and one UK medical school graduate is looking to change that. Steve Snodgrass, who graduated from UK’s College of Medicine in 1984, has worked to develop a product he believes is an opportunity for Kentucky to work together to fight obesity and help a lot of people. [...]
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For a season which tipped off with a dance that swept the Commonwealth and an inaugural address that reenergized the Big Blue Nation, a locker room filled with tears and mourning was not what the UK men’s basketball team (35-3, 14-2 Southeastern Conference) had in mind as the final chapter. The Cats won their first [...]
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KANSAS CITY, Mo.–March is known for its madness, but the Kansas City Regional is starting to experience downright lunacy. On Sunday night, second-seeded Notre Dame fell to third-seeded Oklahoma (26-10), and top-seeded Nebraska lost to fourth-seeded UK (28-7). The respective results set up an Elite Eight matchup between two teams that have become more accustomed [...]
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The scoreboard after nine innings is what matters, but for UK, the scoreboard after six is almost as important. When the Cats hold the lead after six innings they are 14-1, largely in part to an improved bullpen that has been able to hold onto a lead. “Coming into the season, coach told the bullpen [...]
Continue reading …Kernel Editorial Board Palestinian activist and legislator Hanan Ashrawi spoke to the UK community March 23, and her welcome was much warmer than that of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert when he spoke last October. The evening served as the second installment of an effort to educate students about the conflict in the Middle [...]
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