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Adolph Rupp and Ghosts of the Bluegrass

As Halloween draws closer, University Press of Kentucky hopes to haunt readers with two new spooky offerings, “Tales from Kentucky Funeral Homes” and “Ghosts of the Bluegrass.”   One even focuses on the University of Kentucky’s Adolph Rupp and William Funkhouser.  Read article.

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Walter Cornett, of Glendale, Kentucky, is the owner and operator of Walter’s Wildcat World. He founded WildcatWorld.com in 1998 making it one of the oldest Kentucky basketball fan sites in operation today.

On This Day in UK Basketball History

On December 12, 1998, No. 5 Kentucky upset No. 2 Maryland, 103-91.  In a scintillating, up-and-down matchup that had a Rupp Arena crowd of 24,321 rocking, UK seniors Heshimu Evans (31 points), Scott Padgett (25) and Wayne Turner (17) and freshman Tayshaun Prince (13) outdueled Maryland’s Terence Morris (26), Steve Francis (25) and Obinna Ekezie (19).

 

Wildcats Born on This Date

December 13, 1902

Lovell Underwood

December 13, 1940

23 Roy Roberts

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