Former Kentucky All-American point guard John Wall, the 2009-10 Southeastern Conference Player of the Year, was selected as the Best Male College Athlete at the 2010 ESPY Awards, announced by ESPN during the ESPYs Countdown show at Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles on Wednesday night. Wall, a native of Raleigh, N.C., was announced as the…
From The Season Never Ends Calendar 2010: “Albert B. Happy Chandler was born this day in Corydon, KY. Governor. Senator. Commissioner of Baseball. Albert B. Happy Chandler was all of those things, but nothing fit the man quite like the description “Kentucky fan.” Look at any old photo from the national championship teams of the…
Team USA officially lost two star point guards this weekend but they also gained one. USA Basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo said in an interview Sunday with FanHouse that Boston star Rajon Rondo has committed to Team USA, hoping to be part of the team that will play later this summer in the World Championships. Colangelo…
In less than one year, John Calipari has completely altered the Kentucky Basketball landscape, reeling in 5-star recruits as if he were filling out the McDonald’s All-American roster. Yet, the starters cannot play all 40 minutes by themselves. Nor will the superstars be patient enough to wait around for four years before cashing in their…
A coroner’s report said former Kentucky basketball star Melvin Turpin died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Fayette County Coroner Gary Ginn had said Thursday that Turpin took his own life in his north Lexington house, but he didn’t say how. The report confirmed Friday that he died of a gunshot wound but gave no other…
A Lexington coroner has confirmed that a former University of Kentucky basketball player has killed himself. Melvin Turpin, 49, played four seasons at UK. He was taken sixth overall in the 1984 NBA draft by the Washington Bullets — the same draft with Michael Jordan, among others. Turpin played five seasons in the pros, but…
Anthony Davis will visit Kentucky and Syracuse later this summer before making his college choice. As first reported by ZAGSBLOG last month, Davis’s final three remains Kentucky, Syracuse and Ohio State but he has only seen Ohio State. We’re still working on the top three,” Anthony Davis Sr. said Monday by phone. “He wants to…
From the UK Athletics office: “From everyone at the UK Athletics department, our condolences go out to former UK guard Mark Krebs and his family who are dealing with a heavy loss today. Terri Krebs, the mother of Mark Krebs, died Wednesday after a courageous battle with cancer. She was 49. Mrs. Krebs first battled…
If John Calipari wanted to cut expenses and give the savings for scholarships for poor kids, he could trim his UK staff and forget about spending money on recruiting. All he will have to do is send ESPN’s tape of the NBA draft and newspaper clippings to the six or seven recruits he wants. The…
Jackson Davis, son of former Cat Johnathon Davis, has been ranked No. 1 in the Kentucky class of 2014 by Jody Demling of the Louisville Courier-Journal. Jackson is already 6’7 and projects to grow to as tall as 7’0. Johnathon Davis was a 6’8″ forward and played for Rick Pitino from 88-91. He still lives in…