All Entries Tagged With: "tennessee volunteers"
David Cutcliffe Passes on Tennessee Job
It has been a rough couple days for that orange team down in Knoxville. First, Lane Kiffin bolted for USC just a year after taking the Tennessee job and energizing Rocky Top with his recruiting and ridiculous behavior. Texas defensive coordinator/coach in waiting Will Muschamp was then the prime target, but he decided Austin was [...]
Four Tennessee Basketball Players Arrested on Drugs and Weapons Charges
The Knoxville News-Sentinel is reporting that four Volunteer basketball players have been arrested on misdemeanor drugs and weapons charges. After a traffic stop around noon on Friday, Tyler Smith, Brian Williams, Cameron Tatum, and Melvin Goins were taken into custody: Tennessee men’s basketball players Tyler Smith, Cameron Tatum, Brian Williams and Melvin Goins were arrested [...]
NY Times: NCAA Investigating Tennessee Football Recruiting
Lane Kiffin has made a habit of flirting with NCAA rules and regulations since becoming head coach at Tennessee. Ironically, it now appears that it may be actual flirting that gets him in real trouble. The New York Times is reporting that Tennessee’s football recruiting is currently subject to a “wide-ranging investigation” by the NCAA. [...]
UK falls in heartbreaker to Tennessee
In case you missed it during ESPNU’s broadcast of last night’s Tennessee-UK game, UT has now beaten Kentucky 25 years in a row. Odds are, though, you didn’t miss it, because they mentioned it about 40 times in three and a half hours. I’m guessing the TV crew realized on Saturday morning “Oh crap, we’ve [...]
Media picks UK to win SEC, Patterson to win POY
One year after collapsing down the stretch and finishing on the outside looking in on the NCAA Tournament, the SEC media has nearly unanimously picked Kentucky to win the conference and picked the Wildcats leader, Patrick Patterson, to win top honors as the player of the year. Needless to say, things have changed a bit [...]
SEC Saturday Round-Up – Week 2
Kentucky had Saturday off, so instead of focusing my energy on the ‘Cats game, I’ve been watching Kentucky’s SEC opponents trying to evaluate exactly where UK stands with respect to each of them. I know we’ve only gotten to see UK at full speed for about 3 quarters against an overmatched MAC squad, but I [...]
2009 Target Profile: Josh Selby
With the news that he has decommitted from the Tennessee Volunteers and that Kentucky is widely thought to be a major player in his reopened recruitment, Josh Selby has become a name that must be known by UK fans following basketball recruiting. Since he was excluded from our breakdown of UK’s point guard targets due [...]
So what IS the deal with LeBron and Coach Cal?
Friday afternoon just as I was getting ready to leave work, I got wind of a rumor floating around that LeBron James was making a stop by Lexington to visit the Joe Craft Center. It wasn’t clear whether the rumors were legit or not…until about an hour later when John Calipari substantiated the rumors with [...]
WKYT: No charges to be filed in Royal Lex investigation
The UK football “message board monster” I wrote about may turn out to be a little more tame than we were all led to believe. WKYT is reporting that the police investigation into the incident Saturday night at the Royal Lexington apartments has concluded and that no charges will stem from it: The chat sites [...]
UK football rumors are latest message board monster
Since sometime Sunday night or Monday morning, there’s been a monster lurking under the bed for every UK fan that keeps up with the message boards. If you’re not a message board type, maybe you haven’t heard. Reportedly, some UK football players were involved in an altercation late Saturday night at the Royal Lex Apartments [...]
