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The second Black basketball player in University of Kentucky history stood outside Adolph Rupp’s office door trying to summon the courage to knock. Reggie Warford needed the answer to a question ...
When Black athletes are no longer willing to play for Kentucky as long as its gym is named after Adolph Rupp, the name will change. Sports newsletter 🏈's best, via 📧 Studio IX 🏀⚽️🥇 ...
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 was synonymous with winning. As coach of Kentucky, he was a pioneer in the Wildcats’ fast-break offense while becoming the winningest coach the game had ever seen.. The site that now ...
Mark Pope became the first Kentucky coach since Adolph Rupp to win his first three games against AP Top 10 opponents, according to ESPN Stats & Info. Pope, has wins over Duke, Gonzaga and Florida ...
Listen to Adolph Rupp's explanation of why he did not sign more Black players in the video above. You can listen to all the Rupp interviews collected by the Louie B. Nunn center here . “I don't ...
A decade before Adolph Rupp III played for Vanderbilt, he was an 8-year-old boy in the unfinished Kentucky arena that bears his grandfather’s name.
I do believe it was where the horror museum is now located, or in that neck of the woods.” In 1860, Adolph Rupp owned and operated a furniture store before starting Rupp Funeral Home in Monroe.
Adolph “Herky” Rupp Jr., 75, died Wednesday. He was the son of legendary University of Kentucky basketball coach Adolph Rupp. He grew up around UK basketball and played three varsity seasons ...
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 ...
FORT THOMAS, Ky. (Perry Schaible) -- Thursday night, the fourth graders at Moyer elementary school in Fort Thomas will put on their annual wax museum. It's a unique way for the kids to learn about ...