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April 18, 2012 9:57 AM
For the second-consecutive year, the Kentucky Wildcats will play a regular-game format for Saturday's Blue/White Game.
The game will feature the first team (White) vs. the second team (Blue). The Blue team will be staked to a 14-0 lead at the beginning of the game.
Last year, the...
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April 6, 2012 10:18 AM
Athlon Sports issued its 2012 list of the 10 worst college football coaches and the University of Kentucky skipper made the cut.
Joker Phillips came in sixth in the rankings.
The Wildcat coach put together a mediocre 11-14 record over the last two years. Athlon says Phillips likely...
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November 18, 2011 12:45 PM
How does an undefeated football team ranked second in class 6A fly under the radar?
Scott County players, fans and coaches know the answer to that question: play in the same class as one of the top teams in the entire nation.
Trinity has dominated class 6A for...
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November 14, 2011 1:00 PM
Lexington Catholic and Boyle County both won Friday night, setting up an intriguing class 4A match-up for next weekend.
Last year in the playoffs, Catholic came back and played the Rebels tough after getting shellacked in during the regular season, but Boyle County came away with a 45-35 victory...
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October 27, 2011 1:02 PM
As the old saying goes, where there's a will there's a way.
The Patriots found a way.
To say the Lincoln County High School football team struggled early in the season would count as an understatement.
The Patriots lost their first five games, and opponents outscored them...
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October 8, 2011 12:54 PM
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September 29, 2011 5:37 PM
(AP) No. 1 LSU (4-0) vs Kentucky (2-2), 12:21 p.m. (SEC Network) Line: LSU by 30. Series Record: LSU leads 38-16-1.
WHAT'S AT STAKE LSU is in its first week atop the AP poll and must keep winning to stay there and maintain the inside lane to the BCS...
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September 24, 2011 10:31 PM
Kentucky lost to Florida 48-10 Saturday night at Commonwealth Stadium, making it twenty five wins in a row for the Gators over the Wildcats.
Florida capitalized on four Kentucky turnovers and rushed for 406 yards in a dominant win. Kentucky scored late in the first half on a 19-yard...
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August 23, 2011 11:25 AM
Officials at Pike County Central High School self-imposed penalties on the school's football program after receiving results and findings of a nearly year-long KHSAA investigation into recruiting and transfer violations.
In addition, KHSAA Commissioner Julian Tackett imposed additional sanctions based on the investigation.
The probe centered on issues...
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July 26, 2011 1:24 PM
The Woodford County High School football team struggled mightily last season, winning just one game.
The year ended with a 70-8 thrashing at the hands of Highlands in the opening round of the 5A playoffs.
But things aren't necessarily as bleak in Versailles as they may seem at...
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June 21, 2011 1:16 PM
Union College linebacker Zach Eagler will start off the 2011 season as a member of the Consensus Draft Services (CDS) NAIA Preseason All-American Team.
The junior from Florence is coming off an impressive 2010 campaign. Eagler made the 2010 MSC West All-Conference Team as an honorable mention, leading the...
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June 21, 2011 1:02 PM
MaxPreps.com includes a Kentucky team among its nation's top-25 in preseason rankings.
Louisville Trinity comes in at No. 20 in the MaxPreps rankings.
The Shamrocks finished 15-1 last year, en-route to a 6A state championship. The team may prove even more formidable in the 2011 campaign. Trinity returns...
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April 20, 2011 8:28 AM
The University of Kentucky has dismissed linebacker Jewell Ratliff from the team for violation of undisclosed team rules.
The 6-foot-1, 242-pound sophomore from New Orleans was second on the depth chart, playing behind Danny Trevathan. Ratliff played in 12 games last season, primarily on special teams.
Just two...
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April 18, 2011 9:17 AM
The leading rusher on Trinity High School's class 6A championship team will head to UK, according to multiple media reports.
Derek Bishop will join the Wildcats as a preferred walk-on.
The 5-foot-9, 185-pound running back rushed for a career 3,326 yards and 44 touchdowns over two seasons, leading...
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February 3, 2011 6:17 PM
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - An Alabama Web cam broadcasting the posting of faxed national letters of intent on signing day has drawn a complaint from another Southeastern Conference school after a provocative photo of a female student circulated on the Internet. SEC spokesman Charles Bloom said league Commissioner Mike Slive...
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February 2, 2011 9:52 AM
Ten players had officially signed with UK as of 9:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Others players may have faxed in letters, but UK staff must confirm compliance and eligibility before officially releasing a signee's name.
Following are the 10 player bios provided by the UK Athletic Department.
Josh Clemons...
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January 18, 2011 12:59 PM
A Southwestern High School defensive standout plans to trade in Bluegrass for Ivy.
Warrior defensive lineman/linebacker Zack Fowler will sign a letter of intent to play football at Dartmouth on Feb. 2.
Fowler earned second team All-State honors last season, recording 102 tackles. The 6-foot-2, 240 pounder set...
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December 16, 2010 1:18 PM
Rick Minter has joined the Kentucky football staff as co-defensive coordinator, coach Joker Phillips announced Thursday.
"Rick is a tough, hard-nosed defensive coordinator who has put together outstanding defenses at numerous schools," Phillips said. "When I worked with him at Cincinnati, Rick had great knowledge of both sides of...
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December 9, 2010 11:33 AM
An eastern Kentucky high school coaching legend stepped down to step up.
Bell County High School coach Dudley Hilton announced he will step away from the high school ranks to take the helm at Pikeville College in a news conference Wednesday.
"You just live once, and like they...
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November 30, 2010 1:57 PM
A defensive back from Alabama has become the latest player to give a verbal commitment to play football at Kentucky next season.
Defensive back Eric Dixon from Vigor High School in Mobile, Alabama gave his committment to UK recently, according to the website www.al.com .
Two other players...
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October 25, 2010 1:33 PM
SEC OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK
CAM NEWTON
Quarterback
AUBURN
6-6 • 250 • Jr. • College Park, Ga.
• Newton rushed for a career-best 217 yards on 28 carries with two touchdowns rushing while leading the Tigers to a 24-17 win over #6-ranked LSU....
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October 22, 2010 12:06 PM
(AP) - Most seasons in the Southeastern Conference, having three losses before Halloween relegates a team to spoiler status.
This isn't most seasons, at least not in the wide-open SEC East.
Kentucky (4-3, 1-3) and Georgia (3-4, 2-3) meet on Saturday knowing a win could give them a...
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October 14, 2010 10:37 PM
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. (AP) - A Mexican television reporter who was hooted at by some of the New York Jets and said she felt uncomfortable in their locker room is returning to work next week and plans to conduct her interviews anywhere but there. Ines Sainz of TV Azteca said...
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October 14, 2010 1:32 PM
Garrard County (3-4) will face Taylor County (1-7) in an important 3A district match-up Friday night.
Garrard County coach Mark Scenters called the game key for his Golden Lion squad.
"We need to beat Taylor County this week and Casey County next week to secure second place in...
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October 14, 2010 12:34 PM
Friday night will feature a huge rivalry game down south when the Pulaski County Maroons visit the Southwestern Warriors in Somerset.
Pulaski coach John Hines calls it "the game". Southwestern skipper Dale Anderson agrees.
"This is a big game every year," Anderson said. "The entire county will be...
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October 9, 2010 11:40 PM
(AP) - Cam Newton drove Auburn into position for Wes Byrum's 24-yard field goal as time expired, lifting the eighth-ranked Tigers past Kentucky 37-34 on Saturday. Newton ran for a career-high 198 yards and four touchdowns and deftly guided the Tigers (6-0, 3-0 Southeastern Conference) 88 yards in the final...
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September 27, 2010 1:42 PM
(AP) - Kentucky coach Joker Phillips says he's confident the Wildcats are already over Saturday's 48-14 loss to Florida. Phillips calls his team's attitude down, but not necessarily defeated. The Wildcats (3-1, 0-1 SEC) were gashed by the Gators in the second half, as Florida pulled away behind the play...
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September 24, 2010 11:09 AM
University of Florida Head Football Coach Urban Meyer raised eyebrows last weekend when he called Florida's game against Kentucky a coin flip. "Really? A 50-50 shot? At home? Against Kentucky?" writes Associated Sports Writer Mark Long. "Maybe that's how much confidence Meyer has in his lethargic offense, which has yet...
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September 9, 2010 11:45 AM
With the beginning of football season only days away, the University of Kentucky event management staff has announced the following changes to game day operations on Saturdays at Commonwealth Stadium this fall. The changes will affect several aspects of game day operations, including tow-behind trailers; guests’ golf cart use; adjustments...
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August 17, 2010 2:27 PM
MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) - There are plenty of cliches about being close. It doesn't cut it. It only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. So close, but so far. Bottom line: close equals not, and Morehead State's football team, eight times out of 11 last season, did not get it...
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August 17, 2010 2:21 PM
RICHMOND, Ky. (AP) - Eastern Kentucky is used to winning. That's the way it had been around Richmond for more than three decades. The Colonels had a streak of 31 consecutive winning seasons, until the 2009 season. They came close, going 5-6, under second-year head coach Dean Hood. The coach...
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July 26, 2010 2:54 PM
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – After a vote that saw five teams receive at least one first-place nod, the Eastern Kentucky University football team was picked by the OVC coaches and sports information directors to finish third in 2010. The Colonels received one first-place vote to finish third in the preseason poll....
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July 14, 2010 12:17 PM
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Vanderbilt University has scheduled a news conference Wednesday to address "a football matter." The news conference was scheduled within an hour after WGFX-FM 104.5 The Zone cited three anonymous sources that coach Bobby Johnson had apparently resigned. The Tennessean also cited sources that Johnson has quit....
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July 9, 2010 8:44 AM
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A University of Tennessee football player has been charged with misdemeanors after several people - some identified as UT players - were involved in a fight in which two Knoxville police officers were assaulted. The Knoxville News Sentinel quoted police spokesman Darrell DeBusk in reporting 18-year-old...
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April 21, 2010 5:46 PM
The Kentucky football defense played well during practice Wednesday morning, perhaps the best it has played this spring, head coach Joker Phillips said following the workout. “I think that it was (the defense’s best practice),” Phillips said. “They did a good job of holding their gaps and stopping the run...
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January 8, 2010 1:18 PM
Bob Lawson has been named the new football coach at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School. Lawson has been the assistant head coach and defensive coordinator at Henderson County High School since 2007, where the team was District 1 runner-up in 2008 and District 1 champion and state quarter finalist in...
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January 6, 2010 4:44 PM
Joker Phillips took the reins Wednesday as Kentucky's new head football coach and choked up when he spoke about his mentor, Rich Brooks. Phillips held his first news conference as coach at a conference room in Commonwealth Stadium two days after Brooks used the same venue to announce he was...
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December 1, 2009 2:45 PM
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Florida State coach Bobby Bowden will end his 44-year coaching career after the Seminoles play in a bowl game. Bowden will retire as the second winningest coach in major-college football behind Penn State's Joe Paterno. The 80-year-old Bowden has won 388 games in his career at...
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November 28, 2009 8:32 PM
On an emotional night that began with 27 players being honored with jerseys, surrounded by their families on senior night, the emotion hit another level with 10:41 left to play in the first quarter.
Senior Sam Maxwell picked off Jonathan Crompton for his sixth interception of the year, and...
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November 23, 2009 6:04 PM
Louisville coach Steve Kragthorpe believes he's seen enough progress in the Cardinals to keep his job but allows the decision is not his to make. A loss to South Florida on Saturday ensured the Cardinals (4-7, 1-5 Big East) their second straight losing season and dropped Kragthorpe's record to 15-20...
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November 23, 2009 4:39 PM
Rich Brooks isn't ready to talk about the future. The present is more than enough for the Kentucky coach to handle right now. Coming off the first win at Georgia in more than three decades, Kentucky (7-4, 3-4 SEC) can put together its best finish ever in the SEC East...
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November 23, 2009 10:49 AM
A person with knowledge of the decision says winless Western Kentucky has hired Stanford assistant Willie Taggart as its football coach. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the school has not announced the decision. A news conference is scheduled for later in the day....
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November 17, 2009 7:37 PM
A fourth Tennessee football player has been charged with breaking the law in the last two weeks. Nyshier Oliver is facing a charge of shoplifting. The 18-year-old freshman defensive back was cited at 1:45 p.m. on Nov. 7, a few hours before the Volunteers hosted Memphis. He is scheduled to...
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November 16, 2009 5:19 PM
Memories of the raucous celebration following Kentucky's bowl-clinching sixth win over Vanderbilt three years ago are still fresh to senior offensive lineman Christian Johnson. "I swear I have a newspaper clip, you see a couple of our players acting like we're going bowling," Johnson said. "That was huge and the...
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November 16, 2009 2:04 PM
Tennessee coach Lane Kiffin has dismissed two of three freshmen players charged last week in an attempted armed robbery outside a Knoxville convenience store. Kiffin says wide receiver Nu'Keese Richardson and defensive back Mike Edwards have been permanently dismissed from the football team. The coach says, "Their actions have no...
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November 9, 2009 6:40 PM
Steve Kragthorpe was a business major in college, so forgive him if English isn't his strong suit. Asked on Monday if he feels like Syracuse has served as a nemesis to the Cardinals (3-6, 0-4 Big East) over the last two years, Kragthorpe just laughed. "They're all nemesis, wait, what's...
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November 4, 2009 9:13 AM
UK coach Rich Brooks continued to have to deal with a flu bug and injuries Wednesday, with six players held out of practice. On the injury front, wideout Gene McCaskill has a sprained ankle, safety Matt Lentze reinjured his toe, and fullback John Connor has a shin problem. All three...
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November 3, 2009 7:19 AM
The flu bug is hitting the University of Kentucky football team. Coach Rich Brooks wrote on his Twitter account that he met with the trainer, and six players would be missing practice Tuesday because of the flu. Brooks said he hopes "it stops soon."
Brooks did not name the...
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October 13, 2009 11:24 PM
Joker Phillips almost always has something to say. As the orchestrator of the offense, he knows the quarterbacks inside and out.
But this week, his lips are sealed.
"If it's a quarterback question, Rich (Brooks) is handling all of that this week. We'll talk about it next week...
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October 8, 2009 12:47 PM
(AP) - South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier says starting tight end Weslye Saunders will miss Saturday's game with Kentucky because of an ankle injury. Saunders is the 25th-ranked Gamecocks third-leading receiver with 14 catches for 156 yards this season. Spurrier says Saunders, a 6-foot-5 junior, aggravated an ankle injury this...
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October 6, 2009 10:58 PM
Mike Hartline's not going anywhere, because there's no where to go. UK offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Randy Sanders says he knows Hartline has made some critical errors. But he's done enough good to keep the starting job because no one else has shown they can handle it. "There's a...
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October 6, 2009 9:14 PM
The Kentucky football team will need to dig deep at the cornerback positions during Saturday's game at South Carolina, Coach Rich Brooks indicated after Tuesday's practice. All-America candidate Trevard Lindley, who has started 43 consecutive games at cornerback, has been ruled out of the game because of an ankle injury...
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September 29, 2009 11:53 PM
The Henry Clay Blue Devils lowered their flag to half staff today, in honor of former player Jermaine Birch, who was found shot to death in a house on Georgetown Street Tuesday afternoon. Coach Sam Simpson heard the news just minutes before the team's practice for a big game on...
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September 28, 2009 2:48 PM
UK will kickoff against South Carolina at 12:30 p.m. on October 10. The game will be televised on Fox Sports South.
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September 25, 2009 10:26 PM
Fans formed a sea of pink on Friday at the LCA - Lexington Catholic football game. People were supporting four women in the LCA family who are either battling or survivors of breast cancer. The four, including LCA coach Paul Rains' wife, were named honorary captains. Denise Rains was recently...
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September 24, 2009 4:25 PM
Tennessee failed to beat Florida but they may be the latest team to show how it could be done.
The Gators held off Tennessee 23-13 on Sept. 19 but Tennessee managed to stay in the game well in to the fourth quarter despite being four touchdown underdogs.
Florida...
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September 15, 2009 10:07 AM
UK freshman linebacker Ridge Wilson was arrested Tuesday following an incident on UK's campus late Monday night in which he allegedly assaulted a woman.
The incident happened at the Complex Mall on UK's campus. According to police, Wilson got into an argument with the woman and allegedly punched her...
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