They’re even-steven, 1-1 against each other on the court, but the real-deal, take-no-prisoners battle between Billy G. and Billy D. is in the recruiting rounds. And during the SEC’s summer basketball teleconference yesterday, Billy G. made it more than clear that, to paraphrase the great Gainesv...

Some tidbits from Joe Crawford's NBA Summer League stint, where he is playing for the Los Angeles Lakers team: Crawford scores 16 in a losing cause. Video interview with Joe on Lakers.com. Crawford working hard for a spot says Las Vegas Review-Journal. Some comments on this LA Times Lakers blog give...

Since Kentucky Sports Radio ran across this rather crude and over-the-top post "Want to be an NBA player? Here's not where to play," which gloated (among other things) that UK has now gone 11 straight years without producing an NBA lottery pick, the knives are out on both sides. (Just check out the ...

"Dear Lakers: You Got Rondo'd." That was Henry Abbott's assessment this morning on his blog True Hoops after Boston's flat-out 131-92 drubbing of lifeless Los Angeles last night to win the franchise's 17th NBA title. Rondo was anything but lifeless. He was all over the cour...

I spent the day traveling to New York for Saturday’s Belmont Stakes to see if Big Brown is indeed big enough to back up Rick Dutrow’s incessant boasts, but along the way I wanted to drop a few words about Rajon Rondo. The NBA Finals opened tonight -- it's halftime as I post this -- and for t...

NBADraft.net, writing for Fox Sports, is out with its ratings from the recently completed NBA Pre-Draft camp in Orlando. Former UK guard Joe Crawford is 16th on the list. Here's the graph on Joe: "Crawford was one of the top performing guards in camp. He showed excellent ability to use the ...

It wasn’t a big surprise on Saturday when UK announced that junior-to-be guard Derrick Jasper was in fact going to transfer, the California native having been officially granted his release. Rumors had been flying for months. A couple of weeks back, Billy Gillispie himself had said that Jasper was...

In case you missed it, junior college point guard Bobby Maze canceled his visit to Kentucky this weekend and signed with Tennessee after making his visit to Knoxville on Tuesday. Truth be told, the odds were stacked against the Cats on this one. A transfer from Oklahoma, Maze's juco coach at Hutchin...

Over the past week I've received over 160 e-mails in regards to my "Keightley loved Pitino; we can too" column 10 days ago, over 80 percent of which has been positive: Some samples: David wrote, "I agree with your article. I'm a UK season ticket holder (basketball) and I'm still not h...

Jeff Goodman of FoxSports.com is reporting that Travis Ford has been offered the Providence job. The UMass coach, and former UK guard, was on the Providence campus today. He took his name out of the running for the LSU job last night, apparently when it became apparent that Stanford's Trent Johnson ...