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Some video from today’s UK football press luncheon. Players made available were seniors. First up is senior offensive guard Stuart Hines. He’s followed by senior cornerback Anthony Mosley. Last, but not least, is senior linebacker Ronnie Sneed (right).

All three said yes a win over the Vols, breaking the 26-year losing streak to the neighbor to the south, would salvage something from this disappointing season. Gametime Saturday is 12:21 p.m. and will be televised by the SEC Network.

Here are the videos.

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Kentucky senior offensive guard Stuart Hines talking to media today about his team’s four-game win streak in the Louisville series.

Still nursing a sprained MCL, UK offensive guard, and now permanent co-captain Stuart Hines, returned to practice today for a few repetitions. He talks here about how that went.

Big Blue Links for Sunday:

• Stuart Hines is the quiet leader of Kentucky’s offensive line
• UK softball’s Brittany Cervantes meets her hero Erin Andrews
• Kentucky basketball thinking outside the luxury box
• Collinsworth says Towles is as good a high school player as he’s been around
• Cousins in negotiations with multiple European teams
• Arizona injury could provide chance for Alfonso Smith
• Cat fights continuing in football position battles
• Kentucky football coaches are fired up over freshmen
• UK receiver LaRod King gets a grip on things
• New lights make a difference at Nutter Field House
• Notes from Kentucky’s final football scrimmage
• Joker Phillips makes the all-card team

At Media Day, this was Joker Phillips on Stuart Hines: ”He is one of the faces of this program. The reason why we wanted him to be one of the faces of this program, he does everything right. He does everything right, academically, socially, football, and if he does make a mistake in football, he does everything he possibly can to try to get that corrected. We want a guy like Stuart Hines being the face of this program.”

At SEC Media Days on Thursday in Hoover, Alabama, Kentucky offensive lineman Stuart Hines answered questions from those who wonder if the Cats will have trouble scoring points minus Randall Cobb, Derrick Locke and Chris Matthews.

An excerpt of what Hines told ESPN’s Edward Aschoff:

Kentucky returns four veteran starters on the offensive line that has the makings of being one of the best in this league, accumulating more than 60 combined starts in their careers.

Senior guard Stuart Hines leads the group with 24 career starts and has enjoyed the praise he and his other fellow linemen have received this year and expects it to be the guiding force for the Wildcats’ offense this fall.

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Kentucky offensive guard makes the league’s most underrated player list as selected by ESPN’s SEC Blog.

Chris Low writes:

9. Kentucky OG Stuart Hines: The Kentucky guard getting all the love right now is Larry Warford and deservedly so. He’s an excellent player, but don’t sleep on the Wildcats’ “other” guard. The 6-foot-4, 296-pound Hines is one of the better pulling guards in the league and has made 24 starts during his career. It’s no secret that Kentucky will lean heavily on its offensive line in 2011, and Hines — rock-solid in every way — is a big reason why.

The 6-foot-4, 296-pound senior from Bowling Green also has one of the better sense of humors on the team, and a three-year member of the SEC Academic Honor Roll.

Kentucky players Stuart Hines and Danny Trevathan, along with head coach Joker Phillips, talk about their recent trip to Ethiopia.

Click here to see this video on YouTube.

Kentucky football players Moncel Allen, Stuart Hines and Mark Crawford (all on same video) talk about the loss to Mississippi State and what the team needs to do in the remaining three games.

Kentucky offensive lineman Stuart Hines says the team is looking forward to Saturday’s game with South Carolina.