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It's the unofficial start of summer this weekend, and just another big lottery week for the local basketball team.

News and commentary from around the Big Blue Internet. Kentucky gets another football commitment, has 16th ranked class in the country right now.

The NBA Draft is about a month away, and the prospects are making their cases as to why they should be drafted in June.

If there's one adage about recruiting that always rings true, it's this: recruiting never stops.

One of the things you really have to love about John Calipari is that sometimes, you can really tell that he runs a "players first" program.

News and commentary from around the Big Blue Internet. Cleveland wins the draft lottery, will likely choose Nerlens Noel.

Benilde-St. Margaret's 9, Chisago Lakes 1 Benilde scored twice in the first inning and slowly pulled away from the Wildcat softball team, eventually winning 9-1 to snap the Wildcats' four game winning streak.

Florida is a recruiting Shangri-La. Every team who played in a BCS bowl game had some Florida players on their roster.

Kentucky basketball reached uncharted territory last year, in the wrong way. After a first-round exit in the NIT, John Calipari and the Wildcats more than reloaded for the 2013-14 season by bringing in arguably the best recruiting class in school history.

Kentucky forward Nerlens Noel is favoured to be the top pick in next month's NBA Draft.. This year's NBA Draft will be a crapshoot as team's scour a weak crop of players in search of frontline talent.

CBSSports.com's Matt Moore projects Kentucky's Archie Goodwin and Pittsburgh's Steven Adams to the Atlanta Hawks in the first round of the 2013 NBA Draft.

Kentucky coach John Calipari hopes the Cavaliers draft Wildcats center Nerlens Noel with the No.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. If Nerlens Noel is not the first pick in the 2013 NBA Draft, then Ben McLemore will be.

Some of America's best young basketball talents will play college basketball next season at Kentucky.

After dropping game one of the day that forced a winner-take-all regional final, the University of Kentucky softball team got three-plus strong innings of work from junior pitcher/infielder Lauren Cumbess in the circle, who also delivered the game-winning RBI single, while freshman pitcher Kelsey Nunley shut the door in the final 3.1 innings, ... (more)

With seven consecutive national championships to its credit, there is no longer any doubt which league is the country's most dominant.

Though reports about this crop's weakness are premature -- it is impossible to know just how good or bad a draft is until years after it's completed -- two things are clear: There is no can't-miss superstar at the top and there are few certainties anywhere.

Kentucky's Anthony Davis, left, is congratulated by former teammate Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, right, after Davis was selected the No.

Hobbling around on crutches at the Harrison Street Athletic Facility for the NBA draft combine, Alex Len spotted his name on a placard, maneuvered over to a folding chair and gently sat down.

The lottery was created to help the poor get rich, or at least respectable. It was the Robin Hood of competitive sports drafting systems.