Many college fans believed that ESPN's "College GameDay" would never come to Lexington, for football at least. Those prognosticators never envisioned the scene that surrounded the big orange GameDay bus parked between W.T. Young Library and Rose Street Saturday.
This season, for no particular reason, men's tennis coach Dennis Emery chose to switch up the UK men's tennis doubles teams from last year. Freshman Brad Cox, who was tabbed as one of the top recruits in the country before signing with UK, was put with junior Bruno Agostinelli because Emery felt that the two players had a compatible chemistry, Emery said.
When Meat Loaf wrote the song "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad," he definitely wasn't referring to the UK football team's past three games. At then-No. 11 South Carolina. At home against then-No. 1 Louisiana State. At home against now top-10 and defending national champion Florida.
The UK hockey team dropped two close games this weekend, losing 4-3 and 3-2 to Kennesaw State at the Lexington Ice Center. The Cool Cats fell behind 2-0 in Saturday's 3-2 loss after the Owls scored two goals within 44 seconds of each other. UK tried to climb back in the game midway through the third period when junior forward Daniel Ampleford scored the Cool Cats' first goal.