Video tribute to Kentucky legend Cawood Ledford features Tom Leach, Bill Keightley, C.M. Newton and Oscar Combs.
A video tribute to Kentucky legend Cawood Ledford on the 11th anniversary of his death
A video tribute to Kentucky legend Cawood Ledford on the 10th anniversary of his death
The “B” in Joe B. Hall stands for “Basketball”
A lacquer of frost is on the bluegrass again, time for the farmer to prepare his tobacco for auction, for the mare to wait out her foal, for the Governor and Senator to unwind from another round of that fine old Commonwealth tradition of musical seats. And time, too, for the voice of Kentucky basketball,…
A dark night in Kentucky…
College Basketball has several records that probably will never be broken, among them UCLA’s seven consecutive national championships, former Bruin coach John Wooden’s 10 national titles in 12 years and Pete Maravich’s scoring average of 44.2 points a game during his career at Louisiana State. But the safest record of all must be Kentucky’s 129-game home court winning streak,…
More than a century of glorious Kentucky basketball sights and sounds…
When one sport, one school, one supreme program so dominates a state, you can take its measure with sounds alone. Cock an ear to the sound track of more than a century of basketball in the Bluegrass State and you’ll hear: The buzz of the Hyatt lobby in advance of a game at Rupp…
On this day in Kentucky basketball history…
This was overlooked over the weekend probably due to the UK-UL football game and the fact that it was a 3-day weekend for many, but on September 5, 2001, 9 years ago from this past Sunday, the “Voice of the Wildcats” fell silent: Cawood Ledford dead at 75. From The Season Never Ends 2010 Calendar: …
A video tribute to the Adolph Rupp Era
This is a video tribute to Adolph Rupp Era at Kentucky featuring the coach Adolph Rupp himself and many of the great players that played under him: Dan Issel, Alex Groza, Cotton Nash, Larry Conley, Mike Pratt, Pat Riley, Vernon Hatton, John Crigler, Adrian Smith, Johnny Cox, Ed Beck, Tommy Kron, Thad Jaracz, Louie Dampier,…
Ralph Hacker breaks down Kentucky coaches from Adolph Rupp to John Calipari
He said they all brought something to Kentucky, except one coach. Read article.
The Ballad of Adolph Rupp
Ran across this little diddy while browsing Ebay today. The sounds you’ll hear are featured on a 45 RPM record which features the legendary Cawood Ledford’s “Kentucky Basketball ’69” on one side and the “Ballad of Adolph Rupp” on the other. isnw_ecp