Edgar Sosa came into Lexington to train for the Dominican Republic national team after a year playing in Italy, where soccer is supreme. He had forgotten what it felt like to be in a city where basketball was king, where basketball was everything. “As soon as I drove here, it brought back memories of how the fans go crazy for the year of basketball,” Sosa said. Of course, that place was the very same place that used to be the city of the opposition.
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.