Kentucky tennis moved into the NCAA quarterfinals by beating Florida out in Stanford, while the UK baseball team was losing to Florida in Gainesville.
Chicago was getting the most eyeballs, however. That’s where NBA draft prospects Brandon Knight, DeAndre Liggins and Enes Kanter are participating in the league’s pre-draft combine.
Kanter apparently wowed the scouts with his workout. For some reason, Draft Express sent out a tweet earlier in the week quoting an unnamed GM as comparing Kanter to Joe Klein. Think Enes issued a rebuttal yesterday.
Jacob Tamme is happy enough to be in the lineup, and now he’s in the record book.
He had a team-leading seven catches for 78 yards and a touchdown Sunday to help the Indianapolis Colts beat the Oakland Raiders 31-26. In so doing, Tamme ran his season total to 60 receptions. That’s the third-best season total of any tight end in Colts history, and Tamme has achieved it in only nine starts.
He had caught only six passes in 21/2 NFL seasons and none this season when Pro Bowl tight end Dallas Clark went out for the year with a wrist injury in Game 6. Projected over 16 starts, Tamme’s 60 receptions, 564 yards and four touchdowns compute to an NFL tight end-record 107 catches for 1,003 yards and seven scores.
Ex-UK tight end Jacob Tamme is up to 60 receptions and four touchdowns on the season. The former Boyle County star caught a team-high seven passes for 78 yards and a score on Sunday in Indianapolis’ win at Oakland. The victory all but clinched a playoff spot for the Colts and Tamme, who has excelled in place of the injured Dallas Clark.
Larry Vaught of the Danville Advocate-Messenger is not shy when it comes to his local rooting interests.
In that vein, he has worn a Jacob Tamme Indianapolis Colts jersey while covering several sporting events.
Tamme played his high school football at Boyle County.
With Tamme starting in place of the injured Dallas Clark last night, and with Larry covering the UK-Pikeville exhibition basketball game, Vaught combined the two.
Paul Kuharsky of espn.com: “Jacob Tamme is not Dallas Clark, but six catches for 64 yards and a touchdown is a pretty good tight end contribution. (He’s the 27th player to catch his first-career touchdown from Peyton Manning.) . . . Said Manning of Tamme: “It was nice to see a guy that had a calm, cool look to him the entire night. That is encouraging to see.”
Phillip B. Wilson of the Indianapolis Star: “Tamme, who entered with six career catches for 47 yards in his two-plus seasons, had six catches for 64 yards. Both were personal bests, and that TD was the first score of his NFL career. “That’s kind of the neat thing about being a part of this team,” Tamme said. “Whether you’re on the second team, third team, fourth team, you feel like you can go out there and make a play.”
Jerry Tipton of the Herald-Leader: “John Calipari tried to see a 97-66 exhibition victory over Pikeville College on Monday night as the metaphorical glass as half full. And if his team had tried that hard in the game, the Kentucky coach might have been happier with the result. “We really had no fight or viciousness to our game,” he said. ”We didn’t really rebound. We couldn’t make a three. ”Other than that, I thought we showed some good signs.”
Chip Cosby of the Herald-Leader: “The prospect of facing FCS opponent Charleston Southern wouldn’t appear to bring UK out of the doldrums. CSU is 2-6 on the year, 0-4 in the Big South, and was smashed 66-7 by Hawaii in its only matchup with an FBS program. Despite all that, assistant head coach David Turner said Kentucky better be prepared to take the Buccaneers seriously.”
Michael Grant of the Courier-Journal: “UK ripped Pikeville College 97-66 in an exhibition game at Rupp Arena on Monday night before a crowd of 21,127. Coach John Calipari is attempting to build a contender on the fly with several new additions for the second consecutive season. The most high-profile newcomer, Brandon Knight, played as well as advertised.”
Video of Pikeville coach Kelly Wells’ post-game comments.
