The first time Tyrone Prothro ever made the Bryant-Denny Stadium crowd hold its collective breath, a potential stunning upset of rival Tennessee hung on his every step on a last-minute kickoff return.
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Today, July 31, is the 22nd birthday of A.J. Green.
Happy birthday, A.J.
Go ‘Dawgs!
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Eleven members of the Ole Miss track and field team have earned All-Academic honors from the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.
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Lexington’s own Austin Kearns could end up with a world championship ring.
The Cleveland Indians have traded the former Lafayette High School star to the New York Yankees tonight.
Cleveland Plain Dealer’s Paul Hoynes has the story.
Indians’ manager Manny Acta told Hoynes: “”I’ve got a soft spot for this guy,” said manager Manny Acta. “He played for me in Washington and he came to camp this spring for the first time without a guaranteed job. He made the club and he carried this club for about a month or so when Grady Sizemore got hurt and some of our other older guys weren’t performing. I’m glad he’s getting a chance to go to a contender at this stage of his career and maybe win a ring.”
Marc Carig of the Newark Star-Ledger has the Yankee angle on the Kearns trade.
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Travis K. Kircher is doing an excellent blog on the Karen Sypher trial for Fox 41 in Louisville.
Excerpt from Kircher’s blog on today’s proceedings, which included the bizarre testimony from Dana Kolter, Sypher’s former attorney who testified that he had sex with his client before she became his client, and even showed a picture of a sexual encounter.
An excerpt:
Kolter said they engaged in sexual relations in his office. He also admitted to taking photographs of this encounter. Four of these photographs were submitted for the court to view. The first three were of Karen Sypher sitting in a desk chair – dressed normally and smiling – and appeared to show no sexual activity. The other photograph was difficult to make out, but allegedly portrayed Sypher and Kolter engaging in sexual relations, though only the back of Sypher’s head could clearly be seen.
Kolter said Sypher was aware that the pictures were being taken.
Kircher details go on to give great detail of Kolter’s testimony.
Here is also trial coverage from Brett Barrouquere of the AP.
Courier-Journal video of Kolter leaving courthouse:
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The Gators were divided into six groups each representing a different local charity organization: March of Dimes, STOP! Children's Cancer, Inc, American Cancer Society, Shands Cancer Hospital, American Heart Association and the Ronald McDonald House Charities.
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As part of our ongoing mission to bring you Arkansas Expats-related content from around the web, we shared our thoughts about the upcoming season over at Team Speed Kills today. Check it out!
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Going into his 10th season, some folks are wondering how much time is left for him in Athens. I personally am wondering if that is more a reflection of his record (unlikely) or just the fact that we’re not used to SEC coaches sticking around for that long.
The above passage is the only part of Year2′s examination of Mark Richt’s longevity as the head coach of the Bulldogs with which I take issue. I disagree with that sentiment, for two reasons.
First of all, the reason “some folks” are “wondering” about such things is that the “folks” in question know little to nothing about the University of Georgia, its history, its administration, or its fan base. The more you know about the culture in the Classic City, the more certain you are that there’s nothing to all this “hot seat” nonsense. If Paul Finebaum says otherwise, it’s only because Paul Finebaum doesn’t know whereof he speaks, Paul Finebaum is more interested in stirring the pot than in making sense, or both.
My second quarrel is separate, yet it also underscores the correctness of my initial objection. In Athens, we are, in fact, “used to SEC coaches sticking around for that long.” Counting the head coach whose tenure overlapped with the founding of the Southeastern Conference, the Bulldogs have had eight head coaches as an SEC member institution. Only two of those served fewer than five seasons in that role.
Since the SEC came into being, the Red and Black have been led by coaches who served ten years (Harry Mehre), 22 years (Wally Butts), and 25 years (Vince Dooley). As long as Mark Richt is not fired before the end of the 2010 season, half of the head football coaches to have served in Sanford Stadium in the SEC era will have lasted a decade or more between the hedges.
I can’t speak for the rest of the league, but, at Georgia, we’re perfectly accustomed to seeing head coaches last for the long haul. I was in my first quarter as a student at the University of Georgia when my father and I attended the Bulldogs’ season opener in Coach Dooley’s final fall as the Red and Black coach. I will not be surprised in the slightest if my two-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, is in her first semester as a student at the University of Georgia when she and I attend the Bulldogs’ season opener in Coach Richt’s final fall as the Red and Black coach.
Go ‘Dawgs!
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Here’s how I got my job at the Herald-Leader. It was the Lexington Herald at the time, and the sports editor, Mike Johnson, had told me to give him a call when the school year ended at UK. I did. It just so happened, I did on the very day that Steve Aschburner, then the UK beat writer, had informed Mike that he was departing for another job (believe it was the Milwaukee Sentinel).
Mike then hired me for the summer to fill Steve’s spot, while the Herald searched for a UK beat writer. After my 90-day stint, the Herald then hired me full-time at Thanksgiving.
Anyway, Steve Aschburner is now writing for NBA.com, where he has filed this terrific story on the death of Melvin Turpin.
An excerpt:
Inevitably, in moving from the unnerving news of Turpin’s death, you think back to the highlights of his life, the man-child days as a four-year starter at Kentucky and his rapid bounces through the NBA. And that’s where the guilt creeps in, because when Melvin Turpin was battling a personal demon that would end the best professional dreams of his life, the basketball world — coaches, executives, teammates, rivals, media and fans — laughed, ridiculed, hollered, benched, fined and waived.
Turpin had a weight problem. And people thought it was funny.
That’s why thoughts and prayers to his family and friends seem kind of late now, surely too little. Restraint and compassion, in even tiny doses at the right time, might have helped. But it rarely was there for the big guy.
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The current issue of Sports Illustrated — the “Where are they now” issue with Stan Musial gracing the cover — includes a story from Seth Davis on the battle between Kentucky and Louisville over hot hoops prospect Quincy Miller.
Davis gets into the whole scenario, of how Rick Pitino’s hiring of Tim Fuller got the Cardinals in on Miller, thanks to Fuller’s friendship with Brian Clifton.
He also talks about how Clifton’s protege John Wall played for John Calipari at Kentucky, but that Clifton and Calipari have no relationship.
Writes Davis: “The Cliftons and Calipari were never close to begin with, and one person involved in Miller’s recruiting says, ‘That relationship is over.’”
Meanwhile, Miller tells Davis that it’s great being recruited by Pitino and Calipari because, “they’re always going after each other.”
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