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UK Sports « Result #2 on Mar 27, 2009, 3:16pm »
UK officials have called for a 4:30 p.m. press conference Friday in which they say they will announce that Billy Gillispie has been fired as head basketball coach at UK.
Sources tell LEX 18's Alan Cutler that Gillispie met Friday afternoon with A.D. Mitch Barnhart, UK President Dr. Lee Todd and one other person to discuss Gillispie's status as UK's basketball coach.
So far, there is no official word if a new coach has yet been hired.
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UK Sports « Result #3 on Mar 5, 2009, 8:35pm »
"Getting Inside of "The UK Wildcats"
Since starting Southeast Conference play 5-0 and parlaying a 16-4 overall start into its first national ranking of the season, Kentucky has lost seven of 10, including its last three, and four of its last five games.
The Wildcats are now 19-11 overall, 8-7 in the SEC, and in danger of missing the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1991.
After Kentucky lost its final home game of the season to Georgia, a team that has languished in last place in the SEC East since the start of conference play, Kentucky coach Billy Gillispie was asked if his team has regressed over the past 10 games.
“I don’t think they’ve shown a great deal of maturity, of accepting a challenge,” Gillispie said after the Wildcats lost to the Bulldogs 90-85 on Wednesday. “When things go well for them, they’re really good. I don’t think we’ve been tough or mature enough.
“Georgia didn’t take any steps back, and we didn’t respond to that. We haven’t accepted challenges, personally, or as a team, very well.”
Kentucky’s only senior, 7-foot-2 center Jared Carter, averages just 3.3 minutes in 10 games. The Wildcats’ top seven players, in terms of minutes played, consist of four juniors, one sophomore and two freshmen.
Georgia 90, Kentucky 85: Senior night at Rupp Arena was supposed to belong to Jared Carter. The night belonged, instead, to Georgia’s only senior, Terrance Woodbury.
Woodbury scored the Bulldogs’ first nine points and finished with a game-high 30 points as the last-place Bulldogs damaged Kentucky’s hopes for an NCAA Tournament bid. Howard Thompkins scored 19 points and Dustin Ware added 18 for Georgia.
Carter played just four minutes after earning the first start of his career. Woodbury played a nearly flawless game, at least from long distance, hitting all four of his 3-point attempts and all 12 of his free throws. Since dropping its first nine SEC contests, Georgia (12-18, 3-12 SEC) has won two of three and three of its last six conference games, with upsets of Florida, Vanderbilt and, now, Kentucky.
Jodie Meeks led the Wildcats (19-11, 8-7) with 23 points. Michael Porter added a career-high 15 points, and Patrick Patterson scored 14 points and blocked eight shots. Georgia scored 10 consecutive points to take a 61-53 lead with 15:51 remaining. Kentucky got within three points three times in the last two minutes but missed three straight 3-point attempts until a 3 by Meeks made it 88-85 with two seconds left.
It was Georgia’s first win at Rupp Arena since 2004, and Kentucky’s sixth loss in 89 senior day, or night, games. Kentucky, which closes out its regular season Saturday at Florida, has gone from first place in the SEC East to one game ahead of fifth-place Vanderbilt.
Notes, Quotes
• Kentucky may yet make it to the NCAA Tournament for a 17th consecutive season, but the Wildcats seem determined to make their journey as difficult as possible.
Kentucky somehow found a way to lose 73-70 at home to LSU despite a combined 52-point effort from Patrick Patterson (28 points) and Jodie Meeks (24). No other Wildcat was in double figures, and two starters—Ramon Harris and Michael Porter—went scoreless, missing the only two shots they took. In fact, only three players other than Patterson and Meeks scored for Kentucky.
LSU led early, Kentucky came back with a 12-4 run to start the second half to tie it, and then the Wildcats pulled in front by 10 points midway through the second half, only to see the visitors catch up and take a 63-62 lead.
In the closing seconds, LSU’s Tasmin Mitchell hit a 3-pointer to break a 70-70 deadlock, and Meeks missed a trey at the other end with 2.5 seconds remaining.
• G Jodie Meeks finished the LSU game 1-for-9 from 3-point distance after missing his final attempt. Meeks, who started conference play 24-for-45 from 3-point range through his first five SEC games, was only 25-for-74 over his next nine games.
• F Patrick Patterson was 12-for-17 from the field and hit four free throws to finish with 28 points against LSU. Since sitting out the Arkansas and Vanderbilt games with an injured ankle, Patterson averaged 25.0 points game in his next three outings. He also has 26 rebounds over that span.
Quote To Note: “We were trying to look for that or someone coming through a split screen. I thought I had a decent look, but not a great look. I just didn’t knock it down.”—G Jodie Meeks, on his final shot, a missed 3-pointer at the end of the loss to LSU.
Strategy And Personnel
The loss to LSU gave the Wildcats a 10th defeat for the fourth consecutive year, the first time that has happened in Kentucky history.
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Re: Oddities « Result #5 on Jan 28, 2009, 10:34pm »
2009 · The states of Ohio and Kentucky are battling over a most unlikely object: a graffiti-covered rock.
From a distance, Indian Head Rock isn't much to look at, an unremarkable, brownish boulder about the size of a Volkswagen Beetle. But a closer look reveals what makes the rock — first written about in an archeological publication in 1847 — more than just an ordinary boulder.
The surface is etched with names, some scratched and difficult to read and others chiseled more clearly. There's also a face that "some have said looks like Charlie Brown," according to Randy Nichols, a local history buff in Portsmouth, Ohio.
"In early days, it was called the Portsmouth Indians' head rock. It's a life-sized depiction of a smiley face," Nichols says.
The trouble started last year when the 8-ton, sandstone boulder was hauled out of the Ohio River. On one side of the river is Portsmouth and on the other is South Shore, Ky. Indian Head Rock was submerged 60 feet from the Kentucky shore until it was fished out.
Finding the rock wasn't easy. Once partially submerged, it hadn't been seen since the 1920s after navigational dams raised the river level and hid the boulder for decades.
But historian Steve Shaffer, the central character in this ongoing fight, had read stories about Indian Head Rock when he was a kid and vowed to find it. After many diving excursions, Shaffer and some buddies located the relic, pulled it out of the river and donated it to Portsmouth.
The mayor of Portsmouth, recognizing that the Ohio River is actually in Kentucky, offered it to the town of South Shore, Ky. Officials there weren't interested, so the plan was to display the boulder in Portsmouth.
That's when Kentucky state officials got involved; they say the rock belongs to them. Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway wrote a letter demanding its return.
"This was a registered antiquity in Kentucky and it was taken, and that's theft of an antiquity under the statute," Conway says.
But Ohio officials said the Indian Head Rock belonged to them. To further complicate the matter, the Army Corps of Engineers claims it has jurisdiction over the boulder.
Shaffer isn't talking to the media because taking the boulder from the Ohio River bottom put him in legal jeopardy. He and one of his helpers were indicted this summer on felony charges.
It's not clear what will happen to Indian Head Rock. For now, this piece of American history sits a most inauspicious place — in a corner of a municipal garage in Portsmouth.
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Re: Oddities « Result #7 on Jan 8, 2009, 7:35pm »
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Happy Birthday Elvis!
As a former DJ and fan, I would like to wish a special birthday to Elvis Aaron Presley. Born Jan.8, 1935
Elvis Aaron Presley, in the humblest of circumstances, was born to Vernon and Gladys Presley in a two-room house in Tupelo, Mississippi on January 8, 1935. His twin brother, Jessie Garon, was stillborn, leaving Elvis to grow up as an only child. He and his parents moved to Memphis, Tennessee in 1948, and Elvis graduated from Humes High School there in 1953.
Elvis’ musical influences were the pop and country music of the time, the gospel music he heard in church and at the all-night gospel sings he frequently attended, and the black R&B he absorbed on historic Beale Street as a Memphis teenager. In 1954, he began his singing career with the legendary Sun Records label in Memphis. In late 1955, his recording contract was sold to RCA Victor. By 1956, he was an international sensation. With a sound and style that uniquely combined his diverse musical influences and blurred and challenged the social and racial barriers of the time, he ushered in a whole new era of American music and popular culture.
He starred in 33 successful films, made history with his television appearances and specials, and knew great acclaim through his many, often record-breaking, live concert performances on tour and in Las Vegas. Globally, he has sold over one billion records, more than any other artist. His American sales have earned him gold, platinum or multi-platinum awards for 150 different albums and singles, far more than any other artist. Among his many awards and accolades were 14 Grammy nominations (3 wins) from the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, which he received at age 36, and his being named One of the Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Nation for 1970 by the United States Jaycees. Without any of the special privileges his celebrity status might have afforded him, he honorably served his country in the U.S. Army.
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Re: Oddities « Result #9 on Jul 4, 2008, 1:41pm »
Ragged Old Flag
I walked through a county courthouse square, On a park bench an old man was sitting there. I said, "Your old courthouse is kinda run down." He said, "Naw, it'll do for our little town." I said, "Your flagpole has leaned a little bit, And that's a Ragged Old Flag you got hanging on it."
He said, "Have a seat", and I sat down. "Is this the first time you've been to our little town?" I said, "I think it is." He said, "I don't like to brag, But we're kinda proud of that Ragged Old Flag.
"You see, we got a little hole in that flag there When Washington took it across the Delaware. And it got powder-burned the night Francis Scott Key Sat watching it writing 'Oh Say Can You See.' And it got a bad rip in New Orleans With Packingham and Jackson tuggin' at its seams.
"And it almost fell at the Alamo Beside the Texas flag, but she waved on through. She got cut with a sword at Chancellorsville, And she got cut again at Shiloh Hill. There was Robert E. Lee, Beauregard, and Bragg, And the south wind blew hard on that Ragged Old Flag.
"On Flanders Field in World War I She got a big hole from a Bertha gun. She turned blood red in World War II. She hung limp and low by the time it was through. She was in Korea and Vietnam. She went where she was sent by her Uncle Sam.
"She waved from our ships upon the briny foam, And now they've about quit waving her back here at home. In her own good land she's been abused-- She's been burned, dishonored, denied, and refused.
"And the government for which she stands Is scandalized throughout the land. And she's getting threadbare and wearing thin, But she's in good shape for the shape she's in. 'Cause she's been through the fire before, And I believe she can take a whole lot more.
"So we raise her up every morning, Take her down every night. We don't let her touch the ground, And we fold her up right. On second thought I do like to brag, 'Cause I'm mighty proud of that Ragged Old Flag."
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