Kentucky players open spring training

Major League Baseball teams have opened spring training camps across Florida and Arizona this week. Position players for most teams report in the coming days. While there are some players who still haven’t signed contracts as free agents, 30 players …

Double-digit halftime deficit no problem
for Wildcats in come-from-behind win

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(Box Score)   The UK men’s basketball team trailed for the first 35 minutes of Tuesday’s game versus Mississippi State, but when the Wildcats finally took the lead they held onto it.   UK rallied from a 13-point halftime deficit …

Thomas McCarthy hopes to lead UK baseball
to postseason, prove MLB teams wrong

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The end of the 2011 college baseball season could not have gone much better for UK third baseman Thomas McCarthy   The junior-college transfer from Corvallis, Ore., closed the season on a 10-game hitting streak, during which he batted .605 …

James Paxton, Zack Cox ranked among
top 100 prospects by Baseball America

As Major League Baseball teams open Spring Training camps across Florida and Arizona, two former Kentucky baseball players have been honored as top MLB prospects.   Baseball America ranked former UK left-handed pitcher James Paxton as the No. 52 prospect …

Despite Bulldogs’ recent losing streak
Cats expect Mississippi State’s best shot

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At the beginning of February, Tuesday’s matchup between UK and Mississippi State looked like it would be a meeting of two ranked teams and one of the most likely chances for a Wildcats’ loss in Southeastern Conference play.   Since …

UK, UofL, EKU earn series wins
to open college baseball season

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University of Louisville (2-1)   After getting off to a rocky start in the season opener, the University of Louisville escaped the Big East/Big 10 Challenge with a 2-1 record and wins versus Illinois and Michigan State. In the opener, …

Marcus Carey On the Marc: It’s ‘speed week,’
and this red-blooded NASCAR fan is ready!

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Let me try to explain the appeal of NASCAR. I feel compelled to do this during “speed week” which precedes the Daytona 500 this coming Sunday, which is the Super Bowl of stock car racing which precedes the 2012 racing …

Steelers coach takes issue with cameraman
at Rupp Arena during UK game Saturday

Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin was a guest of John Calipari at the UK men’s basketball game versus Mississippi Saturday, but he didn’t seem too happy when a SEC Network cameraman turned the camera on his sideline seat for the …

Wiltjer, Miller come off the bench to help
Wildcats extend home winning streak to 50

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(Box Score)   The UK men’s basketball team hasn’t needed its bench often this season, but the duo of freshman forward Kyle Wiltjer and senior guard Darius Miller helped turn a close game into a blowout Saturday.   Wiltjer and …

UK basketball: Where are they now?
Cameron Mills turns career into ministry

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By Stephen Burnett KyForward correspondent   When UK men’s basketball coach Rick Pitino left that position in 1997 and Tubby Smith replaced him, many players were uncertain of the team’s future — among them Cameron Mills. But in Mills’s words, …

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