Joe Mansour arrived on campus with a reputation for long, long field goals. The kind of field goals booted from the midfield logo. “The first day I got here, the team was surrounding me,” Mansour, a freshman, said on Media Day of his introduction to UK players. “And I think I kicked a 65-yarder.” The […]
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When players like Stuart Hines and Jacob Dufrene arrived on campus four years ago, there were plenty of losing streaks facing the UK football program that they wanted to break. Among the biggest was a four-game losing streak to archrival Louisville. When Hines, a redshirt junior guard, and Dufrene, a senior linebacker, began their UK […]
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Before having ever played a down in Division I football, junior safety Mychal Bailey was already an Internet sensation. Bailey is just one of many Cats in recent years to make his way to campus via LaGrange (Ga.) High School. During a game in his senior year of high school, Bailey won a bet against […]
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Sandwiched between the 1976 Peach Bowl and the 2009 Liberty Bowl in the glass trophy case in the lobby of the Nutter Training Facility sits the Governor’s Cup. For UK’s 13 seniors, they’ve become accustomed to seeing the 110-pound trophy on a consistent basis. “Yeah we got to keep that in there, I was just […]
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By Brandon Thomas sports@kykernel.com The UK men’s soccer team has its eyes on the prize. After finishing a series of preseason exhibition matches, UK moves toward the regular season with their eyes set on a Conference USA championship and a bid at the national championship. Solid overall performances in all three of the exhibition games […]
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Fifty thousand catches. That’s how many footballs UK receivers were tasked with catching over the summer. It was a number that UK head coach Joker Phillips admitted was a little staggering. “They were a little short,” Phillips said. “Not sure if we gave them a realistic goal, but it was something that they were shooting […]
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With less than a week before UK faces its biggest rival, first-year UK head coach Joker Phillips is feeling rather calm and collected. “Maybe Saturday morning I’ll be hugging a toilet somewhere,” Phillips joked. “I don’t know. I haven’t done that in a long time, since I was a player at one time. But I […]
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