Walter McCarty

LEXINGTON - Wayne Turner played on two national championship teams - 1996 and 1998 - at Kentucky. Walter McCarty played on the 1996 championship team and went on to play 10 years in the NBA. Yet both were smiling like young children on Christmas...

LEXINGTON - After Kentucky won the 1996 national championship, the UK¿players did not get title rings from the university because the NCAA thought the rings were too expensive. Other Kentucky championship teams after that, though, got rings and Wednesday...

He’s excited about seeing his former teammates as well as some of Kentucky’s most recent stars, but Walter McCarty has no illusions about his playing ability for Saturday’s all-star exhibition games at Rupp Arena. “I have not...

LEXINGTON — He’s not allowed to say exactly who will be participating in the UK Alumni Charity Game on Sept. 15 because of NBA restrictions, but Kentucky coach John Calipari says plenty of former Wildcat stars will be participating. “...

He’s got a long list of celebrities again participating, but Jacob Tamme knows why the third annual Swings For Soldiers Classic on Monday in Lexington again looks like it is going to be a successful fundraiser for Homes for Our Troops. “We...

It’s no question John Calipari has put his stamp on the University of Kentucky basketball program since he arrived in Lexington on April Fool’s Day in 2009. Always known as a master recruiter at the University of Massachusetts and later at the...

STARKVILLE, Miss. — At the Southeastern Conference Media Day in October, Mississippi State coach Rick Stansbury thought Kentucky would be good and certainly capable of winning the SEC title despite losing key players off the 2011 Final Four team...

NICHOLASVILLE — Jacob Tamme couldn’t quit smiling here Monday. Everything from the weather to the golfers to the sponsors to the celebrity players to the Keene Run Golf Club was near perfect for Swings for Our Soldiers, a fundraising event for...