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Kentucky Football Adds Six from Transfer Portal Tanner Bowles, Marques Cox, Ray Davis, Jantzen Dunn, JQ Hardaway and Devin Leary are Wildcats Head coach Mark Stoops announced the addition of six players from the transfer portal Wednesday in offensive lineman Tanner...

(Photos: UK Athletics/Grace Bradley) FINAL SCORE: Kentucky 26, No. 25 (CFP) Louisville 13      Team Records and Series Information     Kentucky finishes the regular season 7-5 and Louisville is 7-5.   Kentucky leads the all-times series with Louisville, 19-15, and has...

Our story begins in Seattle. Not with a dateline, but with a look back at a moment. It happened on Friday, March 30, 1984, in the Kingdome, site of that season's Final Four. You might remember it because Kentucky would play Georgetown  the next day and lose in a...

(Top photo: UK Athletics/Chet White) They are words that resonate back to the Rich Brooks era of Kentucky football: "It was a complete systems breakdown." I don't recall which game prompted the venerable coach's assessment of whatever setback it followed but it no...

COLUMBIA, Mo. -- In a game where the Kentucky special teams were, once again, mired in a shambles, it was a kicker who actually saved the day with one of the most heroic plays in UK football history. In what may well be Colin Goodfellow's final play in a Kentucky...

KNOXVILLE -- The game was as ugly as Tennessee's uniforms.   The Volunteers, clad in a hideous solid black trimmed in orange, might have doubled for Halloween decorations on this night at Neyland Stadium.  They also could have gone as the 1985 Chicago Bears, they way...

Nobody's perfect but hindsight surely is. It is as flawless as a crisp afternoon in the fall, one presenting a spectacular array of colors,  both in trees and in sweaters emerging from the closet for their first appearance of the season. And it's hindsight that tells...

In front of his brothers and, more importantly, Mom, Mark Stoops' UK team posted a rare shutout (the first since the stadium adopted the "Kroger Field" moniker) Saturday afternoon. Here's what you need to know:   FINAL SCORE: No. 9/10 Kentucky 31, No. 23...

GAINESVILLE, Fla.: It was a Thursday night, nearly 30 years ago,  when the Kentucky Wildcats boarded a plane in Columbia, South Carolina. They were about to do something on that flight that hadn't been done by a UK football team in nearly a decade: Party. As they...

(Above: The author, Jackie and Guy Morriss, and Dr. Greg Jicha of the UK Sanders-Brown Center on Aging) Five years ago, Jackie Morriss, wife of Guy Morriss, reached out to me and made an unusual request, the likes of which I'd never encountered: Would I tell the story...

The most hotly anticipated season opener in the Mark Stoops era (shoot, one of the most ever, let's face it) began the way most believed it would - with a Kentucky victory.  But it also included a surprising amount of head-scratching. How, fans might rightly be...

Come with me now, back to 2013 - Saturday, Sept. 7 to be precise.  A Kentucky football team, led by rookie head coach Mark Stoops, playing host to the Miami Redhawks from Oxford, Ohio. Their head man is Don Treadwell. These Wildcats are 0-1, having lost to Western...