by Kent Sterling Sometimes the best way to learn what’s right is to get it wrong. I wrote yesterday about the disgrace of the 1988 incident where Kentucky assistant coach Dwane Casey was accused of sending an Emery envelope with 20 – $50 bills to Claud Mills, the father of recruit Chris Mills. I assumed […]
by Kent Sterling John Calipari is not a guy I have a lot of good things to say about, but when he called a Kentucky player a “selfish motherfucker”, I didn’t care. This doesn’t make Calipari a bad guy, any more than his language made Bob Knight a bad guy. The moral outrage being expressed […]
by Kent Sterling The Kentucky basketball program was led for 41 years by a man they still call “The Baron”. Adolph Rupp led Kentucky to a then record 876 wins despite only six of those seasons being comprised of more than 30 total games. Here are some quotes attributed to Rupp. Some mean-spirited, yet funny; […]
by Kent Sterling Kentucky has won more games than any college basketball team in history. As a celebration of the price the Wildcats have paid for glory, we will take a look at the top five moral compromises made in earning many of those wins. #5 – The 1952-1953 Kentucky team was suspended for the […]