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2 days ago | yoursportsedge.com | Larry Vaught

Nancy Scranton was an all-Southeastern Conference golfer at Kentucky and was inducted into the UK Athletics Hall of Fame in 2012 — and remains the only women’s golfer in UK’s Hall of Fame. Scranton also remains Kentucky’s most successful player ever on the LPGA Tour as she won three tournaments, including one major, the 1991 du Maurier Classic.

2 days ago | yoursportsedge.com | Larry Vaught

DJ Hunter moved to Knoxville for the 2024 season after starting his prep football career at Horn Lake, Miss. The 6-2, 195-pound Hunter, who runs the 40-yard dash in 4.5 seconds and has a 34-inch vertical jump, threw for 1,135 yards and 10 touchdowns as a freshman in seven games and then threw for 1,431 yards and nine scores in 2024 in eight games. Hunter was so impressive as a sophomore that he had numerous major scholarship offers and committed to Kentucky in April.

2 days ago | yoursportsedge.com | Larry Vaught

As Kentucky gets set for its regular-season ending series at Vanderbilt, senior relief pitcher Evan Byers has been named to the Southeastern Conference Community Service Team for the second consecutive year. A week earlier he was named to the inaugural Tony Gwynn Community Service Trophy “Starting Nine.”Byers is 6-2 with a 4.52 earned run average in 73 career appearances going into tonight’s game at Vanderbilt. This season he is 2-1 with a 5.79 ERA over 14 innings.

3 days ago | yoursportsedge.com | Larry Vaught

Mark Pope answered a lot of questions about his 2025-26 roster, his expectations for the program and what playing for Kentucky should mean to a player. However, the Kentucky coach obviously came to Tuesday’s press conference expecting one question that he didn’t get. “First of all, nobody asked about St. John’s? Is this possible?” Pope said after 30 minutes of answering questions. “I’m excited. You guys aren’t excited about this? … Wow.”Kentucky will play St. John’s in the CBS Sports Classic on Dec.

3 days ago | yoursportsedge.com | Larry Vaught

There are no more doubts/questions about how Kentucky coach  Mark Pope felt about Travis Perry, the all-time leading scorer in Kentucky high school basketball, transferring to Ole Miss. “I was devastated when Travis left mostly because I think he’s such a terrific young man,” said Pope during his offseason press conference Tuesday. “I think he’s a really, really special person. I think he’s got an old soul and he’s full of wisdom and he just is everything you want in a young man and a player.