Tag: My Old Kentucky Home

More than a century of glorious Kentucky basketball sights and sounds…

Listening to the radio

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…

Happy Chandler

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…