Trevard Lindley News

You may or may not have noticed that the SEC Defensive Player of the Week named on Monday was Kentucky linebacker Sam Maxwell.

Kentucky's Trevard Lindley, right, broke up a pass intended for Louisville's Scott Long in the back of the end zone on Sept.

Few football programs have been as far apart as Tennessee and Kentucky for the last quarter of a century.

With a dismal 2-9 record and 0-7 in Southeastern Conference play, there has not been many bright spots for the Vanderbilt football team this season.

Kentucky quarterback Mike Hartline played an impressive first half of football before suffering what Coach Rich Brooks called a "significant" knee injury.

Kentucky's Randall Cobb has made the switch from quarterback to wide receiver. He has 32 receptions for 384 yards and four touchdowns.

Sam Maxwell broke up a pass against Louisiana-Monroe in October. He's tied for the SEC lead in deflected passes with 11.

University of Kentucky defensive coordinator Steve Brown admits he didn't get much sleep Saturday night.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Morgan Newton is the University of Kentucky's starting quarterback.

LEXINGTON Which Kentucky team will show up Saturday when the football Wildcats host the Eastern Kentucky Colonels at Commonwealth Stadium ? The answer is not clear, both literally and figuratively.

LEXINGTON - One deflating loss has complicated some of the preseason goals coach Rich Brooks set for his Kentucky football team, and the Wildcats now find themselves needing wins in a hurry just to get back to a bowl game, let alone improve the destination.

This wasn't how Trevard Lindley's senior season was supposed to go. Lindley bypassed the NFL Draft, where he was projected as a second-round pick, to return to Kentucky in 2009.

Bitten by Mississippi State's Bulldogs last week, the University of Kentucky football team now is being nibbled by a flu bug.

" Cornerback Trevard Lindley did not have any adverse effects from his participation in Tuesday's practice and worked out again on Wednesday, Coach Rich Brooks has reported.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Southeastern Conference players talk about welcome-to-college-football moments, and Saturday night certainly looked like La'Rod King's. It came late in the University of Kentucky's 31-24 loss to Mississippi State, when King - a freshman wide receiver from Radcliff, Ky.

" Illness and injury thinned the ranks of the Kentucky football team significantly during Tuesday morning's practice at the Nutter Training Center, Coach Rich Brooks has reported.

For Kentucky's players, the hardest thing to hit the ground in the loss to Mississippi State on Saturday may have been their egos.

Ole Miss defensive line coach Terry Price went to a family reunion last weekend.

Kentucky and Mississippi State have spent the last few years bumping into each other while knocking against the glass ceiling at the top of the Southeastern Conference.

When Dan Mullen took over as Mississippi State University football coach last December, one of his immediate goals was to hang on to the incoming recruits.