The Jorts joyride was a blast. Josh Harrellson and his feel-good, farewell tour with Kentucky basketball rolled through Tampa and Newark and became one of the major national story lines of the 2011 NCAA Tournament. How could you not find inspiration in the tale of a guy going from 6-foot-10 afterthought in 2010 to one of the stars of this season’s Big Dance. But deep in the heart of Texas, the Big Josh steam engine finally went off the rails.
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.