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Mark Story: UK's Gillispie era shows the risks when colleges recruit middle schoolers

When Kentucky football coach Mark Stoops apparently offered a scholarship to a seventh-grade cornerback, UK became part of a distressing 2013 trend: Colleges offering kids in middle school football scholarships. 3 hours ago

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LOUISVILLE CARDINALS

John Clay: Sports world seems to have spun off its axis

We have seen evidence of peculiar activity right here in the sports world, even in the Commonwealth.
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.
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.
JOHN CLAY

John Clay's notes: It's OK for UK to compliment U of L

UK Athletics Director Mitch Barnhart saying that Louisville has had a "nice year" in college athletics is a little like saying that George Clooney is not unattractive.
FOOTBALL RECRUITING

John Clay: Stoops recruiting at Calipari-like pace

New Kentucky football coach Mark Stoops is generating the kind of recruiting buzz this summer normally reserved for John Calipari's basketball program.
HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS

2013 Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame class

2013 Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame class
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.'
CINCINNATI REDS

John Clay: Clutch hitting fuels Cards' fast start

No team in Major League Baseball is better at getting timely hits than the St. Louis Cardinals. In fact, it's not even close.
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.
CINCINNATI REDS

John Clay: Reds fans on edge as Cards come to town

It is St. Louis' first trip to Cincinnati this year, the best record in the National League (the Cardinals) facing the third-best record in the National League (the Reds), so you'd think the Ohio River banks would be buzzing. Instead, there is an uneasy feeling.