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Beshear signs religious rights bill as Kentucky veto period continues

The freshman earned second-team All-SEC honors last season.

LEXINGTON, Ky. — It was a disappointing finish to Kentucky's 2021-22 basketball season, the Wildcats' national championship hopes ending just as their NCAA Tournament was getting started with a shocking loss to Saint Peter's in the first round.

Not to be the bearer of bad news, but college basketball is over for 2021-22. The good news: It went out with a bang, thanks to a highly entertaining NCAA men's tournament and a drama-filled Final Four capped by Kansas' historic second-half comeback to top North Carolina's Tar Heels for…

NEW ORLEANS — Here was Bill Self's wife, Cindy, hurrying to embrace him with a grandchild in one arm. Daughter Lauren was up next. And then came his ecstatic mother, Margaret, for the hug of all hugs.

Why this Jayhawks championship team will be remembered as the poster child for one particular time period—the era of asterisks in college sports.

Bill Self went from the Hall of Fame coach who too often failed on the big stage to the brilliant mastermind of the biggest second-half comeback in NCAA title game history

NEW ORLEANS — Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Famer Bill Self at age 59 has won his second NCAA Tournament title at Kansas, one more than any other Jayhawks men's coach in the tradition-rich program's history.

The Kansas Jayhawks on Monday won their first men’s basketball national championship since 2008, and did it in historic fashion.

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Keion Brooks plans to enter his name in this year's NBA draft while retaining the option of playing for Kentucky next season, the three-year UK player posted on social media Monday.

This fall will be Nick Saban's 16th directing the Crimson Tide. He's the dean of SEC football coaches. Who's second on the list? That would be Mark Stoops, who arrived at Kentucky in 2013 and is preparing to enter his 10th year at the helm.