Photo: Joe B. Hall is the “Y” in Kentucky at today’s game against South Carolina
Photo: Joe B. Hall is the “Y” in Kentucky at today’s game against South Carolina
On this date in Kentucky basketball history…
Joe B. Hall saw Santa Claus a few hours before most people, and he just happened to be wearing Kentucky blue. “A Christmas Eve win on the road under these conditions is just super,” the Wildcat coach said Saturday after freshman guard James Blackmon banked in a 15-foot jumper with two seconds left to give…
Some called them the Kentucky Mildcats
For months now, basketball fans in Kentucky have been wondering how a program with the biggest and best of everything can lose to a Middle Tennessee in the opening round of the NCAA tournament. That’s what happened, of course, to the Kentucky Wildcats—Mildcats, some called them—last March. Inevitably, a lot of fingers were pointed at…
Joe B. Hall sat everybody down for an old-fashioned Rupp reamin’…
Joe B. Hall would rather reveal what his middle initial stands for than admit that he felt some satisfaction when two Cats began clawing at one another—throwing punches, no less—during a recent practice. One of the pugilists was Winston Bennett, a rock-solid 6’7″ freshman forward. The other looked like a doo-wop singer on whom someone…
On this date in Kentucky basketball history…
Sam Bowie, Kentucky’s 7-foot-1-inch center, has been walking around on a broken leg and did not know it.
In His Old Kentucky Home, Far Away
Ever since you were old enough to drink water after 6 p.m., you’ve probably understood that Adolph Rupp ranked right up there with Colonel Sanders, Man o’ War, Mammoth Cave and other great Kentucky inventions. You’ve known it and believed it, another legend to help you through those desultory days when you needed a push every 15 minutes to get…
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,…
The reinvention of Joe B. Hall
Joe B. Hall explains the key to successful living in one’s golden years with a two-part mantra. The first component is the need for joy. “And I’m having fun,” Hall says. F. Scott Fitzgerald, who famously said there are no second acts in American life, would be amazed to see the 82-year-old former University of…
Joe B. Hall reunion and recognition ceremony scheduled for Saturday night
Saturday’s game will feature a reunion of over 40 former players to honor Joe B. Hall. The ceremony will celebrate Hall’s career, which included a national championship and three Final Four appearances, and coincides with the 25th anniversary of his retirement.
Kentucky great Wallace ‘Wah Wah’ Jones still going strong at 84
Wallace “Wah Wah” Jones still draws a crowd, even at age 84. Entertaining a large group of well-wishers recently, during a surprise birthday party, Jones was amazed by the turnout. Among the guests, former UK coach Joe B. Hall, himself a spry 81. “He’s one of the best that’s ever been to the University of…