Kentucky gave Auburn everything it had, even without one of its top players.

She’s still not in high school, but Marshall County’s Trinity Beth already has played on two high school state championship teams, placed in the top five twice at the state tourney and been named Kentucky Miss Golf twice.

LEXINGTON — Sitting here in my press seat on a cold January day, the 15th of 2022, my mind races back to my childhood, flooding with memories of Joe B. Hall.

Sophie Galloway was sure she did not want to go to the University of Kentucky after her distinguished high school track career ended at Marshall County.

Kentucky junior wide receiver Wan'Dale Robinson was named to the All-Bowl Team by USA Today, it was announced Wednesday. He was named Most Valuable Player in the Wildcats' 20-17 victory over No. 15 Iowa in the Vrbo Citrus Bowl on New Year's Day.

Kentucky’s offense now runs through big man Oscar Tshiebwe.

It took three attempts, but Kentucky got a breakthrough on the road Tuesday night with a 78-66 win over Vanderbilt in Nashville.

LEXINGTON — Chris Rodriguez wants to be Kentucky’s all-time leading rusher and wants to leave with a degree in hand.

LEXINGTON — Davion Mintz has relied on a higher power when he has struggled at times this season.

Four-star receiver Dane Key intended to finish his senior season at Frederick Douglass High School and enjoy one final season of baseball, a sport he’s always enjoyed and thought at one time he might even play in college.

It was fun while it lasted.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Wan’Dale Robinson proved you can come home again.

LEXINGTON — Kentucky honored one of its former coaches and then took care of business to close out the calendar year on Friday.

Before Reed Sheppard finally committed to play basketball at the University of Kentucky where both his parents played, his sister was not convinced he was going to pick UK.

LEXINGTON — It took a loss at Notre Dame for Kentucky to get its swagger back.

LEXINGTON — Oscar Tshiebwe doesn’t consider himself a machine and doesn’t mind being called a beast, but he’s not shy about his most dependable source of energy.

The “Kentucky United for Tornado Relief” telethon put together by UK Athletics and WLEX-TV raised over $4 million to benefit victims of the tornadoes that devastated much of western Kentucky.

LEXINGTON — A disruption in the schedule hasn’t been a distraction for Kentucky.

Sahvir Wheeler stole the show as Kentucky rolled to an easier-than-expected 98-69 win over North Carolina in the CBS Sports Classic Saturday in Las Vegas.

LEXINGTON — Kentucky football coach Mark Stoops had his press conference nearly completed when he received the news he had been waiting for since Wednesday — Kiyaunta Goodwin had added his name to the school’s list of early signing period signees.

As speculation continued to spread about Kentucky coach Mark Stoops being a possible candidate at several major schools with job openings, Valerie Wade could not help worrying a bit.

Kentucky's football team is going to bring in the new year in the Sunshine State again.

LEXINGTON — Mark Stoops hasn’t forgotten his time at Iowa.

She not only was joining a national championship team, but she was going to be replacing the national player of the year.

LEXINGTON — North Florida coach Matthew Driscoll’s squad has played against a lot of point guards this season and teams such as UCLA, Texas Tech, Texas A&M and Arizona State.

Tylon Wilson is the women’s basketball coach at American Indian College in Phoenix but knows plenty about Kentucky freshman guard TyTy Washington.

LOUISVILLE — Louisville's football team has turned its two best offensive performances of the season lately, scoring a combined 103 points and racking up 1,069 yards of total offense in blowouts of Syracuse (41-3) and Duke (62-22).

LEXINGTON — Kentucky guard Kellan Grady made his mark as a shooter at Davidson and it was his timely shots that helped carry the Wildcats to an 86-61 win over winless Albany Monday night.

Kentucky receiver Wan’Dale Robinson sent a message to top high school football players in Kentucky when asked about the UK-Louisville rivalry.

LONDON — Reed Sheppard will be following in his parents' footsteps.

It has been over three years since Cassidy Rowe verbally committed to play basketball at the University of Kentucky, but despite all that has happened in that time in other ways it doesn’t feel like it has been that long to her.

Franklin County junior running back Kaden Moorman has rushed for 1,246 yards and 23 touchdowns in 12 games to help the Flyers reach the Class 4A quarterfinals. He is also a University of Kentucky commit in the 2023 recruiting class.

LEXINGTON — It was a fun night for Damion Collins.

LEXINGTON — Kentucky hasn’t won a football game in four weeks, but coach Mark Stoops isn’t worried about his team’s morale going into the final three weeks of the season.

LEXINGTON — Kentucky signed four basketball players to a national letter-of-intent during signing day on Wednesday.

It was about a year ago that Pete Kaffey, program director at Arizona Compass, was telling anyone who would listen just how good point guard TyTy Washington was.

LEXINGTON — Sahvir Wheeler is excited about opening the season in the Big Apple Tuesday night.

LEXINGTON — This one didn’t count and that was almost a good thing for Kentucky.

Bryce Hopkins was a four-star player and consensus top 50 national recruit — he was as high as No. 33 by ESPN — but the 6-7 Kentucky freshman seems to have all the skills that should have made him ranked even higher.

Suffice it to say, Kentucky has closed the gap in its rivalry with Tennessee.

Kentucky fans were mad after the Cats' 31-17 loss at Mississippi State that was filled with turnovers on offense and missed tackles on defense. Coach Mark Stoops and his players were mad, too.

LEXINGTON — Mark Stoops didn’t have an enjoyable day at the office on Sunday.

LEXINGTON — In its first dress rehearsal of the season, Kentucky rolled to a 95-72 exhibition win over Kentucky Wesleyan on Friday night at Rupp Arena.

Even though Kentucky lost 30-13 at No. 1 Georgia, UK recruiting coordinator Vine Marrow thought offensive coordinator Liam Coen “called a great game” against the SEC’s best defense and maybe the nation’s best defense.

LEXINGTON — Mark Stoops liked his team’s approach during the lone bye week of the season last week and didn’t give Kentucky too much time to relax.

LEXINGTON — Sahvir Wheeler knows he can’t take a day off in practice.

LEXINGTON — It was only a mock game in preparation for the upcoming season, but Kentucky’s annual Blue-White scrimmage provided a glimpse of things to come on Friday night.

A week off and a dose of rest came at the right time for Kentucky's football team. It was much needed.

She wasn’t sure if the Instagram message she got was legitimate or spam, but Kentucky junior softball player Tatum Spangler was curious enough to see if the contact from Big League Chew Bubble Gum was real or not.

LEXINGTON — John Calipari is having fun again.