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Mark Story: For both coaches, the 2023 UK-Louisville football game will carry unusually high stakes

From the moment in December when Jeff Brohm was hired as Louisville’s football coach, he and his intrastate coaching archrival, Kentucky’s Mark Stoops, have been making nice.

Tribune News Service · Jun 19, 2023

Mark Story: Mark Stoops or Jeff Brohm: Who is ‘winning’ the offseason?

The first game with Mark Stoops and Kentucky vs. Jeff Brohm and Louisville will come Nov. 25 at L&N Federal Credit Union (nee Cardinal) Stadium.

Tribune News Service · May 23, 2023

Mark Story: For Mark Stoops and troops, 10 ways to make positive history in 2023

It is a measure of the improvement in the Kentucky football program under Mark Stoops that the type of season that used to be celebrated at UK — 7-6 with a bowl trip — was considered a major disappointment for the Wildcats in 2022.

Tribune News Service · Apr 17, 2023

Mark Story: Now that the battle is on, who has the advantage, Mark Stoops or Jeff Brohm?

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Four years ago, when the University of Louisville was trying to woo native son Jeff Brohm home to clean up the mess left by Bobby Petrino, my column about that attempt ran under a strong headline:

Tribune News Service · Dec 9, 2022

John Clay: Pass the popcorn: Transfer portal, coaching moves have turned college football crazy

And you thought last year was crazy. Transfer portal crazy. Record-breaking crazy. When a multitude of college football players walked out on the diving board and did a triple-somersault into the packed portal you thought you’d seen it all. You were wrong. We were wrong.

Tribune News Service · Dec 7, 2022

Kim Schatzel named next University of Louisville president

Kim Schatzel named next University of Louisville president

WEKU · Nov 30, 2022

Five things you need to know from No. 19 Kentucky’s 60-41 win over Bellarmine

Five things you need to know from the No. 19 Kentucky Wildcats’ 60-41 win over the Bellarmine Knights in NCAA men’s college basketball at Rupp Arena at Central Bank Center in downtown Lexington:

Tribune News Service · Nov 30, 2022

Mark Story: The three questions Mark Stoops must get right this offseason

For decades, Kentucky football’s paradigm was that, in the bad seasons, the Wildcats would win two or three games while in the good years UK would win six or seven.

Tribune News Service · Nov 28, 2022

Mark Story: Is this the year that Kentucky basketball recovers its mojo?

With apologies to 17th century English poet John Milton, the theme for Kentucky men’s college basketball’s two marquee programs since 2015 has been “Paradise Lost.”

Tribune News Service · Nov 7, 2022

Mark Story: The case against ‘University-6’ ends with a whimper. But for Louisville, the harm is done.

LEXINGTON, Ky. — After some five years of suspension in NCAA investigatory limbo, the University of Louisville men’s basketball program is free at last.

Tribune News Service · Nov 3, 2022