Links: Tennessee receiver transfers to EKU; UK’s Landon Young gets high ranking
Monday links:
▪ Former Tennessee wide receiver Jacquez Jones has transferred to Eastern Kentucky. Jones left the Vols four games into last season. He has two years of eligibility remaining.
▪ Top basketball recruit Jonathan Kuminga is officially reclassifying to 2020.
▪ UK basketball recruit BJ Boston is projected as a top five pick in a new NBA mock draft.
▪ Pro Football Focus ranks UK’s Landon Young as the third-best returning pass blocker among Power Five conference offensive linemen.
[The strength of the Kentucky football offense should again be up front]
▪ Spike Albrecht, who gave Louisville fits in the 2013 NCAA Tournament title game with Michigan, is joining the Cardinals’ basketball coaching staff.
▪ Former Florida standout and NFL wide receiver Reche Cladwell dies at age 41 after shooting.
▪ Iowa football strength and conditioning coach Chris Doyle has been placed on administrative leave after allegations from former players painted a culture of systemic racism within the program.
▪ After five Alabama football players tested positive for coronavirus, now three Auburn football players have done the same.
▪ Should we be alarmed by these positive tests? So asks Gentry Estes of the Tennessean.
▪ Kentucky’s football players can begin working out on campus on Monday.
▪ There was a “Black Lives Matter” protest at famous Toomer’s Corner in Auburn on Sunday.
▪ NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell was driven by a range of factors to say that “Black Lives Matter.”
▪ My Sunday column was on Kentucky’s Mark Stoops and how this is not a time for coaches to just stick to sports.
▪ Mark Story talked to former football players Nate Northington and Wilbur Hackett, who broke the color barrier at UK, about enduring racism.
▪ A foreign country offered ex-Kentucky basketball player Fred Cowan a refuge from racism.
▪ Reds star Joey Votto writes op-ed about his awakening.
▪ SEC volleyball coaches release a statement of racial unity.
▪ Former UK women’s basketball coach Bernadette Mattox is a trifecta of trailblazing.
▪ Major League Baseball owners plan Monday conference call to discuss plans.
▪ Green Bay hired Bo Ryan’s son Will as its new head basketball coach. The 41-year-old Ryan was 14-13 last season as head coach of Division II Wheeling (West Virginia).
▪ An LSU basketball player is suspended after an arrest in Illinois.
▪ Former Bengals great Ken Riley passes away at age 72.
▪ Gymnast champion Kurt Thomas, first American to win a world championship, dies at age 64. Thomas’ wife says he suffered a stroke on May 24.
This story was originally published June 8, 2020 at 7:51 AM.
