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Apr 17 2024
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Unbridled Eve Derby Gala announces its glitzy 2024 Kentucky Derby celebrity list
Grammy Award-winning musicians, professional sports stars, Kentucky Derby jockeys, and celebrities from television, film, business, and the arts make up the 2024 Unbridled Eve Derby Gala guest list. For over a decade, the charity gala has drawn guests from Louisville and across the country to celebrate the historic Kentucky Derby on the eve of the world-famous horse race. Tonya York and Tammy
The Courier-JournalApr 14 2024
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Kentucky basketball fans want their program back. Mark Pope wants to give it to them.
When word leaked late Wednesday night that Mark Pope was about to be the new men’s basketball coach at the University of Kentucky, here was the headline on my column: “Mark Pope might not be the coach Kentucky fans wanted, but he might be the coach UK needs.” I’ve been around Kentucky athletics a long, long time and I have never seen anything like the scene inside the packed house that was
Lexington Herald-LeaderApr 08 2024
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Arizona's Lloyd speculated as 'realistic' option for Kentucky job on social media
Arizona's Lloyd speculated as 'realistic' option for Kentucky job on social media The Kentucky Wildcats are searching for a new basketball coach with John Calipari taking the Arkansas job. Interestingly, Arizona coach Tommy Lloyd is included in speculation to take the job in Lexington, Kentucky. Several Kentucky basketball coach candidates lists include Lloyd, who is 88-20 in three seasons
AZ CentralApr 11 2024
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Kentucky Has Reportedly Found Next Head Coach to Replace John Calipari
The Kentucky Wildcats basketball program has reportedly found its John Calipari replacement. According to ESPN's Pete Thamel, the team is closing in on hiring former BYU head coach Mark Pope. Thamel says the deal is expected to come together in the near future. Pope, 51, has been the head coach at Brigham Young University since 2019. Since joining BYU, the program has gone 110-52, good for a
NewsweekApr 11 2024
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Memo to Kentucky fans: Quit whining, Mark Pope will win you over
BYU head coach Mark Pope calls out a play during the first half of a game against Kansas State, Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024, in Manhattan, Kan. The news went over like a lead balloon in Lexington and Provo. In Lexington, they aren’t used to having their basketball coaching job turned down a myriad times and be handed to a coach who was one-and-done in the NCAA Tournament in March. In Provo, fans
Deseret NewsApr 14 2024
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Former BYU coach brings 1996 championship trophy, sellout crowd to Kentucky intro
PROVO — It's safe to assume Mark Pope didn't have a Sunday afternoon over the past five years quite like his first one as head coach at the University of Kentucky. The former BYU coach who led the Cougars to two NCAA Tournament bids in five years — and likely a third if the 2020 tournament had not been canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic — was formally introduced at a press conference Sunday
KSLApr 11 2024
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Kentucky has ‘0 percent chance’ of luring Dan Hurley from UConn
Any hope of Kentucky stealing away national championship-winning coach Dan Hurley from UConn seems all but over. CBS Sports’ Matt Norlander reported that there was a “0 percent chance” that Hurley would leave for Kentucky and KSR’s Matt Jones posted that the UConn coach turned down a “massive offer.” Amid all this, Hurley himself put down the idea he would bolt for Lexington on Thursday during
New York Post (News)Apr 11 2024
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With Scott Drew off board, 7 Kentucky basketball coaching candidates for Cats to consider
LEXINGTON — With Baylor's Scott Drew deciding on Thursday to withdraw his name from consideration to become the next coach of Kentucky basketball's basketball program, athletics director Mitch Barnhart will have to turn his attention elsewhere. The Wildcats don't lack for potential candidates. But who will wind up being John Calipari's successor with the former coach now plugging away in
The Courier-JournalApr 08 2024
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Kentucky basketball coaching candidates with John Calipari reportedly headed to Arkansas
LEXINGTON — Kentucky basketball appears to be in unfamiliar waters: For the first time in more than 15 years, it reportedly will have to navigate a coaching search. According to reports that began circulating Sunday night, Calipari will be the next coach at Arkansas. Calipari, who won 76.9% (410-123) of his games with the Wildcats, experienced dizzying success in the early years of his tenure
The Courier-JournalApr 11 2024
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Kentucky basketball coaching candidate Scott Drew to remain at Baylor, per reports
LEXINGTON — Kentucky's search for a new coach reportedly will continue. According to multiple reports Thursday morning, Baylor's Scott Drew turned down an offer to become UK's next coach. He's spent the past 21 seasons at Baylor, where he is the school's all-time winningest coach — Drew is 446-244 (.646) with the Bears — and led the program to a national title in 2021. Had Drew accepted the
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