Thoughts After Bye

Greetings, readers. It has been too long. Hopefully we here at LexPats are going to get to writing more often on the blog again, especially with everyone’s favorite time of year coming up: Kentucky Basketball Season. Until then, however, here are some thoughts midway through UK’s extremely disappointing and Randall Cobb-less football season. The Kentucky [...]

Rick Reilly is still a tool, but…

…credit must be given where credit is do. He must know how many people think he’s a terrible sportswriter (or has at least turned into one) and he’s trying to up his fanbase by getting on the good side of one of the biggest fanbases in all of sports. Come to think of it, actually, [...]

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Wildcats hitting stride win it counts (ESPN) “That wasn’t even basketball,” said Cousins, who was 9-of-10 from the field for 19 points and eight rebounds. “He was doing a lot of cheap things. I caught an elbow to the jaw from him earlier in the game. He’s a dirty player. The whole world knows it, [...]

Late UK-TN Recap

I have to admit that I thought we would come out swinging in the first half en route to a 20 point victory, but I’m just as pleased with how the game turned out.  It was a good, tight game, one in which I never doubted our victory, that Kentucky drove a nail in toward [...]

Saints Win Super Bowl

You heard it here first. You know everyone in The Big Easy is calling in to work tomorrow and that town is going to being throwing an epic party all week long. Not to mention all the Mardi Gras celebrations that’ll be happening this week leading up to Fat Tuesday on the 16th. You just [...]

Kentucky @ LSU Preview

One team from the Bayou state is going to have a monumental victory this weekend. That team is not the LSU Tigers. Coming into the game on what one could call a tremendously godawful 8-game losing streak (all SEC games), the Tigers will almost certainly make it 9 when the more-talented-in-every-respect Kentucky Wildcats come marching [...]

Cats beat Rebs 85-75

Kentucky came away with a victory in what I thought was one of their best performances team-wise since the Arkansas game.  They are nothing if not consistent, as lately they’ve made somewhat of a habit of looking–at several points throughout the game–like they’re going to blow it wide open, only to let teams stay close [...]

Kentucky-Vandy Preview

Date/Time: Saturday January 30th, 2010, 4:00p  TV: ESPN Vandy comes into Rupp Saturday on a 10-game win streak as Kentucky is coming off of its first loss of the season.  Vandy is 10-0 at home, and the fact that this game is at Rupp obviously plays huge in Kentucky’s favor.  The Nashville crowd would surely [...]

South Carolina wins 68-62

Well, it’s safe to say Kentucky handled their number 1 ranking poorly.  I’m exhausted from a long day and a frustrating game so this will be be fairly short. Devan Downey single-handedly carried the Gamecocks on his shoulders with a 30-point performance.  Kentucky had absolutely no answer for him tonight – no team would have [...]

Forde on #1

Everyone’s favorite sportswriter/Pitino-lover from Louisville has written a nice column about the Cats being on top again.  Those looking for evidence of a bias against Kentucky will certainly find it even if it’s not there (maybe it is, maybe isn’t, who cares), but those looking for a good read on how long it’s been since [...]