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Mark Story: Can UK's Air Raid 2.0 produce one-year offensive turnaround Mumme did?

Air Raid 2.0: UK's offensive coordinator Neal Brown talked to quarterback Maxwell Smith during the spring game last month.

Is it realistic to expect Kentucky's Air Raid 2.0 to produce in 2013 the type of dramatic reversal of offensive fortunes that Hal Mumme's original operating system did in 1997?

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COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Mark Story: Andrew Wiggins faces a lot of scrutiny next year

Also discussed in notes column: Future of UK-WKU football series, how UK benefits from Kentucky-Louisville football rivalry and Kentucky Speedway, which has a race (sort of) coming up among area police chiefs.
LOUISVILLE CARDINALS

Mark Story: The area where UK and U of L basketball need to work together

The state of North Carolina has played host to NCAA Tournaments 10 times already in the 2000s. Teams from North Carolina are 30-1 in NCAA games played inside state lines this century. UK and U of L should work together to bring more NCAA tourneys here and give teams from our state the same advantage...
HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL

Mark Story: Madison Central's Bosley enjoying life as The Guy Who Hit The Shot That Won State

As of Friday, it has been exactly two months since Bosley, a slight 6-foot guard, joined one of the more select historical fraternities in Kentucky high school hoops: Players who have hit game-winning shots in a boys' state championship game.
FOOTBALL

Mark Story: Barnhart says Kentucky is against 9-game SEC football schedule

Now that ESPN and the SEC are in business together on the soon-to-launch SEC Network, the feeling is that the TV network will soon compel the Southeastern Conference to go from eight league football contests a year to nine. Kentucky AD Mitch Barnhart says UK will oppose any such plan.
KENTUCKY DERBY

Mark Story: Jockey Rosario finds way back to Orb for first Derby win

Joel Rosario, who set a record for victories in a spring meet at Keeneland last month, has continued his torrid pace at Churchill Downs, picking up his first career Kentucky Derby victory on Saturday.
BASKETBALL: WOMEN

Is your pet named for a UK sports figure? Tell us about it

If you have a pet named for a University of Kentucky sports figure, we'd like to hear about it for a possible story.
FOOTBALL

Mark Story: Rutgers coaching scandal parallels UK's 'Thin Thirty'

For certain former University of Kentucky athletes, the videos of now former Rutgers men's basketball coach Mike Rice firing balls at players in practice and abusing them verbally were distressingly familiar.
MARK STORY

Mark Story: How UK fans will be affected by launch of SEC Network

The biggest change for Lexington-area Kentucky Wildcats fans as a result the Southeastern Conference and ESPN launching a new SEC Network cable channel in August 2014, will be this: There will be fewer UK games on WKYT-TV, and more Cats contests on the ESPN family of networks.
BASKETBALL: MEN

Mark Story: Buzz surrounds next Cats vs. Cards game in Rupp

It appears that the meeting between the 2012 NCAA men's basketball tournament champions (UK) and the 2013 NCAA winners (U of L) will be the first time in Rupp Arena history that the two most recent national champs have faced each other.
COLLEGE BASKETBALL

Mark Story: On his 29th birthday, Andre Woodson gets a life-changing gift

Ex-Kentucky football star's wife, Erica, gave birth Thursday to the couple's first child, a boy. It was the former's UK quarterback's 29th birthday. Said Woodson: "I joked that I would be teaching (the baby) how to receive (quarterback) snaps as he came out of the womb."