Founded by formerly enslaved people in 1879, Simmons produced Kentucky's first Black doctors, lawyers and teachers.
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I don’t remember why I needed to interview Junior Bridgeman. I only remember that I did.
Bob White told the story of high school sports in the state of Kentucky for nearly six decades, even after he retired from the newspaper in 2000.
As I wrote Monday and will likely say a few more times this week, a golf major championship will make guys who command the attention in other sports shift their schedules and become a fan for a day.
"You can’t put a monetary value on that. It's immeasurable."
When the University of Louisville men's basketball team started its two-hour bus ride to Indianapolis for the 1980 NCAA Final Four, the conversation centered on Iowa, the Cardinals' opponent in the national semifinals.
He said he had tackled and succeeded in rebuilding situations like the one facing Louisville at Cincinnati, Kansas State and West Virginia.
It's been a classic Cinderella season for the Simmons College of Kentucky women's basketball team.
Reaction and condolences poured in Tuesday afternoon when news broke that former University of Louisville men's basketball coach Denny Crum died at the age of 86.
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It will be the first game in Louisville between the two HBCUs in more than 100 years.