Mark Story
Mark Story
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BASKETBALL: WOMEN
Mark Story: Barnhart tenure still lacks a non-hoops breakthrough
Toward the end of each school year, I like to evaluate how the athletics departments at Kentucky and Louisville have fared and declare an overall winner between the two.
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MARK STORY
Mark Story: A 5-step plan to rescue college basketball
After the slog that was the 2012-13 men's college hoops season, many observers believe the game is in deep trouble. Outlawing the act of defenders coming from off the ball to take charges and allowing players with five fouls to stay in games are two ways to improve the game.
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HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS
2013 Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame class
2013 Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame class
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Mark Story: Centre legend Bo McMillin finally gets the call from the hall (of fame)
On Thursday night, Bo McMillin, the star of Centre College's football "upset of the century" over Harvard in 1921, will enter the Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame. McMillin's 90-year-old daughter says simply, 'It's about time.'
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FOOTBALL
Mark Story: How a dispiriting UK sports season yielded a giddy UK fan base
In the three most visible men's sports — football, basketball, baseball — 2012-13 was a horrid year for the University of Kentucky. Yet UK backers seem almost giddy. What gives? Tom Leach says you can find the answer in old cowboy movies.
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MARK STORY
Mark Story: For Keselowski, what makes Kentucky Speedway hard also makes it fun
The Kentucky Speedway racing surface is too bumpy. Last year, the weather for the Quaker State 400 was too hot. Yet for reigning Sprint Cup champion Brad Keselowski, the unique challenges of the Speedway make it one of his favorite tracks
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COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Mark Story: Ex-Wildcat to let Rick Pitino know what he really thinks of him
Notes column includes: Cameron Mills planning to send Rick Pitino a message; Jeff Piecoro thrilled by UK football's recruiting invasion of Ohio; slain Bardstown police officer Jason Ellis was 'arguably the best baseball player ever to play' at Cumberlands
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COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Mark Story: Julie Hermann has at least one defender in Lexington
Even though coaching rivals at Kentucky and Tennessee in the 1990s, Kathy DeBoer and Julie Hermann became friends. Now, as allegations about Hermann's past coaching behavior have put her future as the new Rutgers AD in question, DeBoer says "she can survive this. Julie's tough."
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MARK STORY
Mark Story: How to 'fix' SEC men's basketball
Better scheduling, more emphasis on early-season games and new ways of marketing the SEC Tournament so that more schools' fans care about the event are keys to improving SEC men's basketball.
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COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Mark Story: 'Confusing time' for Kentucky NCAA schools not named UK or UofL
At our state's NCAA Division I schools that are not in the "upper-crust" college conferences, how much do they worry about being "left behind" if the big boys bail?




