Nick Roush

1 week ago | on3.com | Nick Roush

The NCAA created a big mess by opening up a can of worms with little to no advanced planning. The four-letter “non-profit” threw its constituents a bone by giving them the transfer portal and NIL. It turned into an avalanche of lawsuits that threaten the entity’s existence. You cannot put the toothpaste back into the tube, but you can spread that toothpaste out more evenly over a couple of brushes.

1 week ago | on3.com | Nick Roush

The football coaches you see wearing headsets on Saturdays were once wearing helmets on college football fields. Of the 136 FBS coaches, 123 played some form of college football. Mark Stoops will readily tell you that he was not among the best of the best, but he is keeping company with some familiar names who played at a high level. “I was not very impressive as a player—that’s for sure,” Stoops joked before the Cats played his alma mater in the 2021 Citrus Bowl.

1 week ago | on3.com | Nick Roush

The days when the Boys of Summer dominated sports headlines are no more. Major League Baseball has transformed into a regional sport. In recent years the league has innovated, with much success, to draw in more casual fans. The MLB can take a page from the NBA and European soccer to build on that momentum. The MLB Cup is exactly what professional baseball needs to re-establish itself as the sport of the summer. From the mind of Steven Peake, this proposal sounds too good to be true.

1 week ago | on3.com | Nick Roush

Skip to main contentSpring practices have ended. The transfer portal has slowed to a crawl. We are entering Summer Radio SZN. As such, let’s get our minds right for the upcoming college football season by taking a 10,000-foot view of every SEC football team. Once a rung on the ladder to Kentucky’s success in the SEC East, Shane Beamer and his sunglasses have been a thorn in Mark Stoops’ side.

1 week ago | on3.com | Nick Roush

It’s Selection Monday for the NCAA Baseball Tournament. For a good chunk of the season, Kentucky was on the right side of the bubble. That bubble may have burst at the eleventh hour. Ahead of the final Kentucky baseball series of the regular season, there was a common hope across Big Blue Nation: “Just get one more win.” They had four opportunities and capitalized on none of them. The Bat Cats were a strike away from a win over Vanderbilt. It was one of two walk-off losses in Nashville.