UK is exploring a men's basketball practice facility, somewhere on campus, to be developed in conjunction with a sports medicine venture by UK HealthCare.
On Friday, at Kentucky's football media day, the longtime athletics director sounded less like someone preparing for a football season than someone scouting the safest route through a storm at 18,000 feet.
The case, filed last year, alleges misconduct by Jorgensen and names the university and athletics director Mitch Barnhart as additional defendants.
Pope represents Kentucky basketball the way Kentucky fans should want Kentucky basketball to be represented.
The original complaint accuses UK, President Eli Capilouto, athletic director Mitch Barnhart, former swim coach Lars Jorgensen and former swim coach Gary Connelly of failing to address allegations of sexual abuse by Jorgensen, or failing to act on red flags in his hiring process.
The last week has already been a major asterisk on what had been a solid 22-year career.
In a decision that harkens back to the NCAA’s days of staunch amateurism enforcement, the University of Kentucky football program has agreed to place its football program on two years’ probation and vacate all 10 of its victories from the 2021 season.
UK agreed with the NCAA that it failed to monitor its swimming and diving program and that the underlying violations demonstrated a head coach responsibility violation.
Halftime breaks grow every season. More jugglers. More T-shirt throws. More baby races. More commercials. More sideline interviews.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WDRB) – There were cookies. Right there on the press table, a big plate of them, before Kentucky coach Mark Pope arrived for h…