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Apr 15 2024
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Kentucky basketball coach Mark Pope wants program to take on this identity
LEXINGTON — Mark Pope apologized in advance for not knowing the exact numbers, joking that "somebody will verify this" by hopping on Google. But the specifics mattered less than the point he wanted to make. Best he could recall, Pope and his Kentucky teammates were in the middle of an exhibition game against Athletes in Action three decades ago. The Wildcats had jumped to a big lead — Pope
The Courier-JournalApr 02 2024
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Police arrest Salemtown homicide suspect in Kentucky
Metro Nashville police on late Tuesday night captured the man wanted in connection with a deadly shooting on Easter Sunday at a Salemtown restaurant. Metro Nashville Police put out a bulletin for Anton Rucker, 46, after 33-year-old Allen Beachem was killed at Roasted Salemtown, a restaurant on Garfield Street. Two days later, Metro Nashville police located Rucker at a residence in Princeton,
The TennesseanApr 20 2024
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Pink moon to rise over Kentucky, then a meteor shower. Here’s when to catch a glimpse
A springtime full moon will rise above Kentucky soon, but why is it called the pink moon and will it look any different from most full moons? The pink moon gets its name not from the hue of the full moon, but because wildflowers bloom in April. Specifically, the flower “moss pink” inspired the name, according to the Old Farmer’s Almanac. Along with the pink moon, April’s full moon is also
Lexington Herald-LeaderApr 17 2024
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‘Blatantly fraudulent.’ Owner, doctor sentenced in health fraud at Kentucky pain clinic
A Kentucky chiropractor convicted of healthcare fraud has been sentenced to two years and six months in federal prison. A judge also ordered Timothy Ehn, of Union, in Northern Kentucky, to pay a total of $3.7 million in restitution, according to a news release from the Kentucky Attorney General’s Office A doctor who worked at the clinic, William Lawrence Siefert, 70, was sentenced to one year
Lexington Herald-LeaderApr 22 2024
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Kentucky All-Stars basketball rosters set. Nine from Louisville area selected for teams
Four boys and five girls from the Louisville area have been selected to the Kentucky All-Stars basketball teams that will face Indiana in June in their annual summer series. Oldham County’s Max Green, Seneca’s Quel’Ron House, Christian Academy’s Jackson Washington and Butler’s Dayton Williams were selected to the Kentucky boys team. Sacred Heart’s Reagan Bender and Angelina Pelayo, Butler’s
The Courier-JournalApr 10 2024
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Kentucky appears to be focusing on Scott Drew to replace John Calipari
Scott Drew seems to be the focal point of the coaching search in the Bluegrass state. John Calipari bolted for Arkansas this week after coaching Kentucky for the last 15 years, and the job might already be Drew’s to turn down. Drew has coached at Baylor since 2003, winning the national championship in 2021. CBS Sports’ Jon Rothstein reported Wednesday that Kentucky brass “plans to officially
New York Post (News)Apr 24 2024
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Mark Pope adds Baylor assistant Alvin Brooks III to Kentucky basketball staff, per reports
LEXINGTON — Kentucky basketball once targeted Baylor's Scott Drew as its new coach. While Drew remains in Waco, Texas, the Wildcats reportedly still will have a former Baylor coach on the bench next season. New UK coach Mark Pope hired Alvin Brooks III as an assistant Wednesday, according to multiple reports. Brooks, an associate head coach under Drew, spent the past eight seasons on the Bears
The Courier-JournalApr 19 2024
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Kentucky’s final player from the Calipari era makes a decision. He’s going to transfer.
The 6-foot-8 forward from Decatur, Alabama, is the final UK player from John Calipari’s final season with the Wildcats to reveal the next step in his basketball career, and he’ll be moving on from Lexington following one year with the program. Burks averaged 1.9 points and 1.7 rebounds in 7.1 minutes, making appearances in 20 of Kentucky’s 33 games as a freshman this past season. He began the
Lexington Herald-LeaderApr 24 2024
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From Chad Brown to D. Wayne Lukas to Todd Pletcher, meet Kentucky Derby 2024 trainers
Sixteen trainers will have horses step into the starting gate at Churchill Downs on May 4, all with the same goal in mind: to win the 150th edition of the Kentucky Derby. The Run for the Roses features seven trainers in their Derby debuts — Victor Barboza Jr. (Grand Mo the First), Whit Beckman (Honor Marie), Phil D'Amato (Stronghold), Larry Demeritte (West Saratoga), Michael McCarthy (
The Courier-JournalMar 26 2024
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Kentucky deserves better than ‘Kalipari’
The front of the Lexington Herald Leader claimed John Kalipari should not be fired. Yes, they spelled his name with a K, as in Kentucky, and said that his buy-out is $33 million. John Calipari is 1-3 in the last three NCAA Tournaments and Kentucky fans want, and deserve, better than being the laughing stock No. 3 seed that lost to No. 14 seed Oakland. Kentucky was the only No. 3 seed to lose
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette