Author Archive: Earl Cox

Earl Cox, Sports Columnist
502.897.8910

Earl doesn¹t just write about sports legends, he counts many of them as his
friends. A member of the Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame, he has been writing
about sports for 60 years. Incidentally, that¹s about how long it's been
since he¹s cleaned his desk but he knows where everything is.

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Petrino, WKU Marriage Is For Real!

Petrino, WKU Marriage Is For Real!

| December 12, 2012 | 0 Comments

First, let’s establish the fact that this isn’t an April Fool story. It really happened.

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Is ACC Big Enough For Williams, Coach K And Pitino?

Is ACC Big Enough For Williams, Coach K And Pitino?

| December 5, 2012 | 1 Comment

Thanks and congratulations to Athletic Director Tom Jurich and President Jim Ramsey for completing the final piece of the puzzle to ensure that the University of Louisville for all time will be forever and ever a major player in intercollegiate athletics.

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Joker’s Final Game

Joker’s Final Game

| November 28, 2012 | 0 Comments

The Joker Phillips Era is over for the University of Kentucky football team.

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Cards Face Hard Times

Cards Face Hard Times

| November 28, 2012 | 0 Comments

What else bad can happen to standout University of Louisville athletes?

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Paul Hornung Gets His Due

Paul Hornung Gets His Due

| November 20, 2012 | 0 Comments

Just three days after Paul Hornung was honored once more in his hometown of Louisville by being inducted into the city’s Catholic Sports Hall of Fame, Sunday’s New York Times piled on the accolades even thicker.

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Kentuckians Want Their Hunting And Fishing

Kentuckians Want Their Hunting And Fishing

| November 15, 2012 | 0 Comments

The only thing that I knew for sure in advance about last week’s election was…

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Joker’s Going: How Will His Successor Be Picked?

Joker’s Going: How Will His Successor Be Picked?

| November 8, 2012 | 0 Comments

When the Southeastern Conference was formed in the early 1930s, Kentucky was a charter member.

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Jurich Could Run UK And UL Sports

Jurich Could Run UK And UL Sports

| October 31, 2012 | 0 Comments

Don’t you feel sorry for Penn State University?

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In Hoops It’s The Big 10 1. IU, 4. Ohio State. 5. Michigan

In Hoops It’s The Big 10 1. IU, 4. Ohio State. 5. Michigan

| October 25, 2012 | 0 Comments

By this time all of us who love basketball have had every Tom, Dick and Harry try to fill our feeble brains with preseason facts, figures and guesses how our favorite teams will stack up this coming season.

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Cal Pays Attention To UK Greats Of The Past

Cal Pays Attention To UK Greats Of The Past

| October 18, 2012 | 0 Comments

How does John Calipari do it? How does the head basketball coach at the University of Kentucky keep on and on piling up talented high school players?

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