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University of Kentucky one of largest holders of Native American remains that haven’t been returned to tribes

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The University of Kentucky is one of the largest holders of Native American remains and artifacts that have not been made available for return to tribes, a report from ProPublica published this week showed.

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John Clay: Two architects of Kentucky football’s ‘Air Raid’ era have now died, both too soon

They were both part of Hal Mumme’s first staff as football coach at the University of Kentucky. Guy Morriss was the former NFL offensive lineman from Texas. Mike Leach was the quirky law school graduate from California. Both are now gone, both way too soon.

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Mark Story: Why we will look back at 2022 as the year Kentucky actually ‘joined’ the SEC

LEXINGTON, Ky. — For some six decades, the general reaction to a University of Kentucky football season that yielded a winning record of any kind fell somewhere between contentment and excitement.

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Sophia Rosing: University of Kentucky student filmed in vile racist attack is banned from campus

Sophia Rosing, 22, a former business and marketing major at the university, will not be able to re-enrol

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Ex-student accused in racist attack banned from campus

The University of Kentucky has permanently banned a white former student accused of physically assaulting a Black student worker while repeatedly using racial slurs

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Who is Sophia Rosing? University of Kentucky student at the centre of racist attack ‘plans to withdraw from school’

As calls on University of Kentucky to expel Sophia Rosing keep mounting, more details have emerged about her and her role in the university, Andrea Blanco and Johanna Crisholm report

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Senior accused in racist attack withdraws from U of Kentucky

A white University of Kentucky student accused of physically assaulting a Black student worker while repeatedly using racial slurs says she will withdraw from the school

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Calls for hate crime charges against Kentucky student arrested for racist attack as she posts $10k bail

Sophia Rosing, 22, was seen on video using a racial slur against another student and told the arresting officer she has ’lots of money’ and gets ‘special treatment’, police said

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Shocking video captures Kentucky student hurling racial slurs and attacking Black peers in campus dorm

Sophia Rosing, 22, who is white, was arrested after she used a racial slur and physically attacked two Black students in a campus dorm

The Independent UK

Kentucky coalminer goes viral over picture of him at son’s basketball game

Michael McGuire hurried after work to watch game, still wearing his uniform and covered in soot

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After open-heart surgery, UK’s Tionna Herron begins the journey back to basketball

As the University of Kentucky class of 2026 spent its first month on campus, Tionna Herron could only watch her college classmates via a Snapchat story.

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Mark Story: Vince Marrow might have discovered a gem for Kentucky football at his nephew’s basketball game

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Vince Marrow spent Valentine’s Day in 2021 taking in some high school hoops. The University of Kentucky football recruiting ace was in Richmond to watch his nephew, John McCrear, then playing for Lexington Catholic, face off against Madison Central.

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Oscar Tshiebwe helping new teammate find his way. Kentucky is going to benefit.

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The announcement that Ugonna Onyenso — a highly touted center from Nigeria — would be joining the University of Kentucky basketball team for the 2022-23 season came on Aug. 1, just a few days before his future teammates were headed to the Bahamas for a series of…

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Mark Story: Can Christopher Rodriguez put the oomph back in Kentucky’s rushing attack?

At one point during a recent Kentucky Wildcats football practice, the sight of exiled UK running back Christopher Rodriguez in the huddle with the Cats’ second-string offense moved his teammates to levity.

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Mark Story: Is there a scenario where UK football goes 11-1 in 2022 — and Cats fans are unhappy?

The University of Kentucky began playing football in 1881. In all the time since, no Wildcats team has ever reached 11 wins in a regular season.

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Mark Story: Can UK prevent Stoops-Calipari from becoming Bear Bryant-Adolph Rupp II?

Adolph Rupp is the greatest men’s basketball coach in Southeastern Conference history. Before Nick Saban, Bear Bryant was the greatest football coach the SEC had ever seen.

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John Clay: We’re witnessing a strange, new chapter in University of Kentucky athletics

Just when you think you’ve seen it all, you see something new.

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Mark Story: Why describing Kentucky as ‘a basketball school’ is problematic — and outdated

LEXINGTON, Ky. — When Alabama football visited Lexington to play Kentucky in 2013, a player both schools were then recruiting, John Hardin defensive lineman Matt Elam, was making an unofficial recruiting visit to UK.

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Mark Story: In 2022, Mark Stoops will make UK football history, but his program faces two big tests

Barring an unforeseen cataclysm, Mark Stoops will make University of Kentucky sports history in 2022. When UK kicks off its season Sept. 3 at 7 p.m. vs. Miami (Ohio) at Kroger Field, Stoops will set a new longevity record for a Kentucky head football coach by commencing a 10th season…

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Mark Story: Who should be on Kentucky football’s all-time NFL team?

LEXINGTON, Ky. — If Miami University (the one in Ohio) is known as “The Cradle of Coaches,” then the University of Kentucky football program should be called “The Crib of Centers.”

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Down-to-the-wire Barbasol Championship produces first-time PGA Tour winner

Trey Mullinax stood on the edge of what his life was before and what it now is.

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Scientists Create New Promising Drug for Toxoplasmosis

A new University of Kentucky study may lead to a new treatment against Toxoplasma gondii, the parasite that causes toxoplasmosis. Millions of people carry the parasite T. gondii, but very few have symptoms because the immune system usually keeps the parasite from causing illness. However, toxoplasmosis can have severe consequences…

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John Clay: Is there more anticipation for UK football than UK basketball?

We might be experiencing one of those rare summer occurrences in the Bluegrass, one in which there is more anticipation for the upcoming University of Kentucky football season than the UK basketball season.

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Jacob Toppin is heading back to Kentucky ‘with big goals in mind'

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The University of Kentucky’s men’s basketball roster continued to take shape Tuesday evening with the announcement that forward Jacob Toppin would return for a third season with the Wildcats in 2022-23.

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Alabama transfer Javon Baker will not enroll at Kentucky. That’s news to Baker.

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Javon Baker, a transfer from Alabama whom the University of Kentucky announced as part of its 2022 signing class in February, is no longer coming to the school.

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