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A Guide to the UK Regular Season
Basketball season is upon us. We are in the middle of our Big East and SEC previews. The SEC West was up first, the first half of the Big East will come on Wednesday, the SEC East will be on Thursday, and the second half of the Big East on Friday. However, I’m not slated [...]
Business time for Coach Cal, UK
A bit of a Flight of the Conchords feel on the Pinkie the past couple days, huh? All joking aside though, since the Campbellsville game, I think everybody around the Kentucky program, from Coach Cal all the way down to the guys who still call into radio shows, has realized that the omnipresent buzz around [...]
‘Cats take the floor for Blue-White Scrimmage
Nick was in Rupp Wednesday night for the Blue-White Scrimmage, but I have a few things to say about the action. We’ll do this in note form since I am having some internet troubles. -The teams tonight were not very fair, but that was not the idea. The game opened with the projected starters (Wall, [...]
John Wall comments on eligibility issue
Marlen Garcia of USA Today spoke with John Wall, and for the first time, he commented directly on the questions and investigation surrounding his college eligibility: LEXINGTON, Ky. — Kentucky freshman point guard John Wall said Tuesday that he has been waiting for five months for the NCAA to decide whether he is eligible to [...]
Lee Todd acknowledges John Wall’s eligibility issues
As we come upon the Blue-White Game tomorrow, the black cloud of the John Wall eligibility investigation still hangs over all of our heads. For the first time, a Kentucky official is acknowledging the issue, albeit indirectly, to everybody’s favorite UK writer Jerry Tipton. I still don’t believe there is any reason to fear for [...]
NBA executive talks to Jeff Goodman about John Wall, Daniel Orton
This is from Jeff Goodman’s blog on Foxports.com. Some really interesting stuff about a couple of UK’s heralded freshmen: I just found out the Preseason AP Poll will be released on Thursday. Kansas will be the clear-cut No. 1 team in the land, but it’ll be interesting to see who gets the nod at No. [...]
Notes on John Wall, Basketball Recruiting and Football News
OK, so yesterday I introduced our series outlooks for each player on Kentucky’s roster with a breakdown of Mark Krebs’ upcoming season…and the few of you who read it made fun of me for being able to write 800 words about Mark Krebs. Reading it a second time, I realized that, yeah, it is kind [...]
Kentucky Basketball 2009-2010 Player Outlook: Mark Krebs
As part of our coverage leading up to UK’s tipoff of the highly anticipated 2009-2010, we are beginning a series of outlooks for each of the players on this year’s roster. In this previews, we will give a short bio on each player, a quick look at the projected role for each, and a prediction [...]
Sources tell Jeff Goodman that John Wall will be cleared for season opener
Jeff Goodman of FoxSports.com is reporting that he expects Kentucky phenom John Wall to be cleared for Kentucky’s season opener on November 13 against Morehead State. I’m not breathing a sigh of relief yet, but I am definitely more relaxed that I was about 18 hours ago. We’ll keep you updated, hopefully with more good [...]
More thoughts on the John Wall eligibility issues
OK, so some time has passed since the initial shock of seeing the ESPN headline “UK’s Wall battling eligibility”. I think it’s deep breath time. Let’s look at the facts. First of all, Mike Slive confirmed that Wall is not yet eligible, not that he is ineligible. The issues that stand in the way of [...]
