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Mark Coomes’ Sports Insider: ‘Tis the season to be deflated, elated
The torch is passed — and not a second too soon. The high hopes of August were extinguished over the weekend by the cold realities of November. Football season preceded itself in death. A few games...
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Mark Coomes: UK football spending $110 million to make Commonwealth Stadium a...
The University of Kentucky announced last week it will spend $110 million to put lipstick on a pig. Commonwealth Stadium, home to one of the worst programs in major college football, will undergo 20...
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Big money, star recruits are changing the game (and name) at UK
Because its SOP is chronically SOL, the University of Kentucky football program is known around Dixie as SOK. Same Old Kentucky. Folks are going to need a new acronym. There is nothing “same” or “old”...
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Wildcats show Florida they’re no ordinary Smokin’ Joes
At halftime Saturday night, ESPN could have and should have issued the following bulletin: We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to bring you breaking news of a phenomenon unseen and...
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LSU sent UK’s flawed, feel-good narrative to rewrite
The problem with framing a sequence of unfinished events as a “narrative,” other than the cloying and annoying overuse of the poor word, is that folks start leaping to unwarranted conclusions. Sports...
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Cards, Cats aim to state a serious case for football in the commonwealth
No need to scour university archives to find the last time Kentucky and Louisville hosted college football’s No. 1 and No. 2 teams in the same week. It’s never happened. This means U of L’s game...
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Lachlan McLean: U of L vs. UK rivalry renewed on the football field
By Lachlan McLean | WLKY Story reported by WLKY. Kentucky fans like their second quarterback, while Louisville fans just want the second quarter back. That’s the story after Saturday’s college football...
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Barring a fateful Cards fumble, the Wildcats are doomed
When a team fumbles the opening kickoff, they always lose. It’s a fact. Well, maybe “fact” and “always” are a little strong. There’s no official record keeping of: “Games lost after fumbling opening...
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