“As the story was told to me, Adolph Rupp was initially opposed to the fact that my father was on the team because of his color,” Derek Barksdale said. “The initial communication was not there.

LEXINGTON – Should Adolph Rupp have been faster to integrate the Kentucky basketball program? To hear Rupp tell it, his delay in signing a Black player until 1969, six years after the university ...

Rupp Arena is named after the University of Kentucky's famed basketball coach Adoph Rupp. There are calls to remove his name because during his famed 42-year career, he only had one Black player.

Baseball has marketed his memory, conveniently hanging its testimonials on a sentimental number, as if the 28th, 38th or 48th anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s breaking the color barrier somehow ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – An author is taking another look at the legendary Adolph Rupp, a Kentucky coach largely regarded as a racist. The story goes back to the historical 1966 NCAA ...

Herald-Leader columnist John Clay thinks Adolph Rupp’s name should remain on Rupp Arena. He cites a personal act of grace by Rupp toward a Black player in the late 1940s. The University of ...

Adolph Rupp, Kentucky’s coach from 1930-72, allegedly did not recruit African-American players, although some historians in the Bluegrass State dispute that. They claim he recruited Black ...

And he brings legendary Kentucky basketball coach Adolph Rupp back to life for Glory Road, ... And they didn’t want to be the first ones to cross the color line at Kentucky.