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Oscar Combs

UPDATE: Steve Moss of WKYT tweets: “John Calipari says move to make Joe B a Dominican assistant opens the door for Hall to coach the NBA players. More with Cal on WKYT at 6.”

When I was talking to Joe B. Hall on Friday, while the former UK coach wouldn’t say it, I got the feeling that Hall wasn’t convinced that it was the NCAA that ruled he and Sam Bowie could not coach the Kentucky Pros in the August 15 exhibition game against the Dominican Republic National Team.

“I can’t get anyone to tell me who made the decision,” Hall kept saying. “I don’t understand that.”

Continue reading ‘Did the NCAA make the decision on Joe B., or did UK?’

Photo by John Clay.

Ok, I’ve been to UK football media day. And I promise that I tweeted my head off, but apparently because of the DOS attack yesterday on the Twitter service, many of the accounts are not able to update by SMS, or text message. I apparently have one of those accounts. When it is fixed, hopefully all my backlogged tweets will show up. Hopefully. Just to prove I did it.

Oh yeah, and I had lunch.

And I will post my impressions of Media Day before I write my print column.

But first, I had to show you the hat Oscar Combs wore to Media Day.

The former Cats Pause owner and publisher bought it from a man named Rufus King in 1976, and Oscar claims he hasn’t had it out of the hat box much since. But he did break it out yesterday. Oscar said that King put a half-page advertisement in the Cats Pause in ’76, selling the hats at $125 a pop. He quickly received 150 orders.