There are dominating programs in sports, and then there’s the UK Cheerleading program. While the men’s basketball team may be the most renowned at UK, the cheerleading team is the most successful. The Cats won their 17th national championship on Sunday night in Orlando, Fla. It is the Cats’ 13th championship in the last 15 [...]
Continue reading …By Alex Risen The Hawaii holiday is over. That’s the feeling the UK men’s tennis team got during the 2009 Southeastern Conference Coaches Indoor Championship, held at the UK Tennis Complex. The Cats came up short in the last stretch of several individual matches, with team play beginning next weekend. “We’re in the best conference [...]
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Sophomore Victoria Dunlap drives to the hoop during UK’s 52-45 loss against Mississippi State on Sunday at Memorial Coliseum. Dunlap recorded her sixth double-double in the loss. Photo by Allie Garza | Staff Just when it looked like the recent hot streak of the UK women’s basketball team had carried over into another game, it [...]
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Junior Perry Stevenson, left, and sophomore Patrick Patterson guard Georgia’s Howard Thompkins in the Cats’ 68-45 win Sunday. Photo by Zack Brake | Staff RELATED STORIES: Column: National ranking in Cats’ future Replay the game’s live blog ATHENS, Ga. — Respect. It’s something the Cats are fighting, diving and blocking their way for. UK has [...]
Continue reading …UK football head coach Rich Brooks announced Thursday that coaches Joker Phillips and Randy Sanders will receive title upgrades. Phillips, UK’s offensive coordinator since 2005, will now be head coach of the offense. Sanders, who has patrolled the Cats sideline as quarterbacks coach since 2006, will now be Brooks’ offensive coordinator. According to a UK [...]
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The defensive triumvirate is complete. After watching fellow juniors Jeremy Jarmon and Micah Johnson announce their decisions to return to the UK football team for their senior seasons, junior cornerback Trevard Lindley announced that he would also return for his last season as a Cat on Wednesday. The announcement was made on UK Athletics’ Cat [...]
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Jodie Meeks, a junior guard, finished his historic night with 54 points, breaking Dan Issel’s 53-point record that stood for just under 39 years. RELATED STORIES: Column: Scoring outburst not a surprise Replay the game’s live blog KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — With 8:02 left in the second half of UK’s 90-72 win against Tennessee, UK coach [...]
Continue reading …MEMPHIS — Three straight winning seasons, three straight bowls and three straight wins. All goals of UK head coach Rich Brooks when he took over the struggling UK football program in 2003. Now, those goals are a reality as the Cats defeated East Carolina 25-19 in front of 56,125 fans Jan. 2 at Liberty Bowl [...]
Continue reading …As the old saying goes, two out of three ain’t bad — at least for the UK football team and UK head coach Rich Brooks, who have seen two of three juniors who filed for NFL draft evaluations decide to return to school for their senior seasons. Linebacker Micah Johnson and defensive end Jeremy Jarmon [...]
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