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Boxing tournament raises money for charity

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Boxing tournament raises money for charity

More than 21,000 people were in Rupp Arena Friday night to see the UK basketball team, but The Main Event was downstairs. Over two nights, more than 30 amateur boxers from UK fraternities, the UK boxing club and nearby boxing clubs competed in a boxing tournament organized by Sigma Chi and Alpha Delta Pi at [...]

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Cats struggle to put Bucs away, win 49-21

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Cats struggle to put Bucs away, win 49-21

On Military Appreciation Day at Commonwealth Stadium, it took the Cats all four quarters to take another step forward in Operation Win.

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Late bye gives Cats more than headaches

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Late bye gives Cats more than headaches

When the UK football schedule was released, most fans likely glossed over this weekend’s game against Charleston Southern and checked it off as a win before examining the last two games of the season against Vanderbilt and Tennessee.

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Wilson trying to do better than good enough

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Wilson trying to do better than good enough

Ridge Wilson was arrested his freshman year. Now he’s making his first start Saturday against Mississippi State.

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UK, Georgia look to stay alive in East

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UK, Georgia look to stay alive in East

UK football hasn’t been compared to Georgia much over the years. Even though the Cats have split the last four meetings with the Bulldogs, Georgia still holds a 49-12-2 record in the series. But going into Saturday’s matchup, the teams have more in common than usual. After a four-game losing streak earlier this year, Georgia [...]

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Junior wide receiver Randall Cobb, one of the most passionate and vocal Cats, took to Twitter on Sunday to let fans know how he felt after UK’s win over No. 10 South Carolina. Over the course of several tweets, Cobb delivered the following message: To all the fans: loved seein Yall come late, love hearing [...]

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Cats’ corners hope to avoid repeat success by Jeffery

The UK defense has had to match up with more than its fair share of elite wide receivers in the last two seasons. The Cats have had to account for Alabama’s Julio Jones and Georgia’s A.J. Green, but neither of those players gave the secondary fits like a little-known freshman did last year in Columbia, [...]

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Maybe Joker Phillips couldn’t help but repeat himself. After No. 8 Auburn hung on to beat UK 37-34 on Saturday, giving the Cats their third straight loss, UK’s head coach kept retreating to the same words in his postgame news conference. “My heart aches for those guys. They played their hearts out,” Phillips said. “We [...]

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Offensive line surpasses expectations

When offensive line coach Mark Summers arrived at UK after the 2009 season, he inherited a position group that had been decimated by graduation. Four seniors departed, leaving Summers with plenty of questions and only one returning starter. But through the first five games of the season, the offensive line has been one of the [...]

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Mark Crawford earns first start

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The education of junior defensive tackle Mark Crawford didn’t begin in earnest until well after high school. As a senior at Ben Davis High School in Indianapolis, he drew recruiting attention from nearly every school in the Big Ten. But he was academically ineligible, and had to take a detour to the most unlikely of [...]

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