In the press box at Commonwealth Stadium during Saturday’s Blue/White Game, Penn State’s spring game was on TV. Standing in the right spot, you could see the score of Penn State’s Blue/White Game and the scoreboard at Commonwealth. The differences between the two Blue/White scrimmages were so many, it’s unreasonable to even compare the two. [...]

DeMarcus Cousins has a lot of work to do before the NBA Draft. Perhaps most elementary, above anything basketball-related: He needs a driver’s license. Big Cuz — the same Big Cuz that drew almost as much love from NBA scouts as he did from end-of-the-bench hacks, sent in to try and hack their way through [...]

Life as a college basketball coach, especially in Lexington, isn’t always easy. It certainly isn’t always fair. So when Rod Strickland was pulled over early Sunday morning in his fourth drunk driving-related incident, the consequences shouldn’t be easy, and maybe they won’t be fair. But if UK wants to get it right, it shouldn’t wait [...]

Did you hear? A friend of a friend who works in admissions said he heard from a reliable guy that Darnell Dodson is transferring. And no, before you ask: It’s not the same guy who said Billy Donovan’s children were enrolled in Lexington’s Catholic schools hours after Billy Gillispie was let go last year. You [...]

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Standing on the precipice of greatness, perspective is easy to lose. So when the Cats stunningly fell just short of the Final Four, they fell hard. A team whose 13 players had combined to play in six NCAA Tournament games before this year’s go-around often struggled to find the right reaction in [...]

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Growing up an only child, Da’Sean Butler had a wild imagination. To stay entertained, he had to. So he would go in the backyard at home in Newark, N.J., shoot some hoops and let his mind run free. He’d haul down big rebounds, shoot game-winning shots — lay-ups and jumpers, twos and threes, [...]

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Four-hundred and eighty-three days doesn’t seem like a lot of time for a seismic shift in one program. So it seems even more improbable for two programs to do the same. On Nov. 29, 2008, UK and West Virginia, two programs struggling for an identity, clashed in an anti-climactic, TV-unfriendly brawl in [...]

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — So much for that. So much for the “smart vs. dumb” angle and the miniature societal clash that came with it. So much for the Big Red’s big upset bid. Cornell has played well all season, but not against speed, size or strength comparable to UK’s — and yes, that includes Cornell’s [...]

NEW ORLEANS — All in about a ten-hour span Saturday, a bunch of Kentucky kids across a handful of venues proved the state of the Commonwealth’s pastime may be better than ever. Both UK men’s and women’s teams won NCAA Tournament games, a mountain team (Shelby Valley) won the Kentucky state high school boys’ championship [...]