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PHOTO BY BOB WEAVER | STAFFSenior wide receiver-turned-quarterback Matt Roark is carried off the field to Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’” after leading UK to a 10-7 win over Tennessee.

3’s the man

Roark an unlikely hero as UK ends 26-year UT losing streak

UK wide receiver MattRoark’s senior season resembledan amusement park attraction notfor the faint of heart — withbreath-taking highs, jaw-droppinglows and twists and turns whenleast expected. All of it culminat-

ed with UK’s first victory overTennessee in 27 years, with Roarkplaying quarterback.

But to appreciate the ending,you have to fully understand thestart.

Early in UK’s 2011 campaign,Roark was a scapegoat for theCats’ struggling offense. With ahandful of drops in UK’s opening

two games of the season, againstWestern Kentucky and CentralMichigan, Roark found himselfsitting on the bench for his finalGovernor’s Cup against in-staterival Louisville.

“That’s a mentally tough kid,”said Tee Martin, UK passinggame coordinator and Roark’scoach at North Cobb High School

in Acworth, Ga. As Roark experienced strug-

gles early in the season, Martinstuck with his former high schoolquarterback, saying he knewRoark had more ability than hewas displaying on the field andthat it was an issue of confidence,not ability.

So, Roark sat the bench, play-

ing almost exclusively on specialteams and patiently waiting foranother opportunity to shine atwide receiver. Roark got that op-portunity in week nine againstMississippi State, when he caught13 passes for 116 yards. The nextweek against Ole Miss, Roarkcaught seven more passes for an-

By Ethan Levine

elevine@kykernel.com

See ROARK on page 2

UK contacted more than 800 patientslast week about a UK HealthCare employ-ee’s phone that was lost, which containedpatient health information.

Last Wednesday, UK issued a publicnotice in the Lexington Herald-Leader, in-forming people about the possible breach ofhealth information.

UK spokeswoman Kristi Lopez said UKHealthCare notified the 878 people whoseinformation was on the phone.

The phone was lost Sept. 25 and hasn’tbeen found, she said.

“We don’t have any reason to believethat they have used the information,” Lopezsaid about whoever has the phone.

According to the notice, the phone con-

tained emails with information that mayhave included “health conditions with med-ical record numbers and, in some cases,names. No Social Security numbers, datesof birth, or credit card, debit card or bankaccount numbers were exposed.”

Lopez said UK HealthCare has aprocess to encrypt all laptops, and currentlyis working on a process to encrypt mobiledevices, too, in order to better protect peo-ple’s information.

She advised patients to monitor theiraccounts.

For more information, contact 859-323-6044 or privacy@uky.edu.

Cellphone containing patient information lost

STAFF REPORT

Two U K twins, Kaymonand Keymon Murrah, notonly share similar names,but are both studying to beopera singers.

The two Louisville na-tives are busy with theirmajor as well as creating anensemble group.

The brothers recentlycreated their own group forspring 2011, called Spiritual

Ensemble. The group was created

to incorporate all aspects ofAfrican-American music,mainly focusing on spiritu-als, which are slave songs,Kaymon Murrah said.

The 12- to 15-membergroup will make its debut inthe Spring Concert in 2012,Chavea Clay, the SpiritualEnsemble vice president,said.

“The ensemble is notlimited to just African-

American people,” Claysaid. “The group is mixedwith different nationalitiesand all kinds of majors.”

The Murrahs’ fascina-tion with music came fromtheir mother, who playedclassical music throughoutthe house when they wereyoung boys.

The two started off play-ing the saxophone in the band,and they noticed they shouldpursue their music career

In perfect harmony:Twins studying opera

By Bethanni Williams

news@kykernel.com

See TWINS on page 3

Brothers created an ensemble group together

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“Breaking Dawn,” the fourth of SummitEntertainment’s planned five movies based onauthor Stephenie Meyer’s bestselling books,sold $20.3 million worth of tickets Wednesdayand Thursday and is on track to collect rough-ly $56 million by Sunday. The film has earnedan impressive $179.3 million in its first fullweek in release.

That continues the teen vampire series’dominant run at the domestic box office, but itis also a slight underperformance. The secondfilm in the record-busting series, 2009’s “The

Twilight Saga: New Moon,” which alsoopened the Friday before Thanksgiving, hadgrossed nearly $10 million more than the newmovie at the same point in time. As the filmseries ages, it appears that Bella, Edward andJacob may be losing a few fans.

Walt Disney Studios’ “The Muppets,”meanwhile, is turning in a healthy opening, es-pecially given its modest production budget ofabout $45 million. The film, which stars JasonSegel, of TV’s “How I Met Your Mother,” andAmy Adams, from “Enchanted” and “TheFighter,” grossed $12.5 million its first twodays in theaters and should get to about $40million by Sunday.

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other 116 yards, and, at thetime, it seemed as though hissenior year had been saved.

After two more weeks inwhich Roark accumulatedfour catches for 61 yards, thesenior showed up for prac-tice Tuesday with the expec-tation of lining up at widereceiver for his final collegegame against Tennessee, thenemesis that had bested hisCats since before he wasborn.

Instead, with injuries toquarterbacks Maxwell Smithand Morgan Newton, UKhead coach Joker Phillips toldRoark that he would be play-ing quarterback against Ten-nessee. Not a Wildcat forma-tion quarterback. Not a trick

play quarterback. No, Roarkwould be UK’s starting quar-terback for every snap as theteam tried to snap its streakagainst the Volunteers.

“Someone asked me whatmade me go with the deci-sion,” Phillips said. “He wasall we had.”

“We didn’t have anyoneelse,” senior punter RyanTydlacka said. “What elsecould we really do?”

It was not until Saturdaywhen the Cats’ offense tookthe field for the first time thatthe rest of the world, Ten-nessee’s defense included,found out what Phillips andthe rest of the UK programhad known for a week.

“We thought they mightcome out in a Wildcat but wedidn’t know it was going tobe the whole game,” Ten-nessee head coach Derek

Dooley said.Roark threw six passes,

and after a completion to sen-ior tight end Nick Melillo for15 yards on the Cats’ openingdrive, completed just threepasses for zero net yards therest of the game. But his 84rushing yards in the secondhalf helped UK score its onlytouchdown on the afternoon,leading to the historic 10-7win.

From the wide receiverwho couldn’t catch to thequarterback who did whatTim Couch and Andre Wood-son couldn’t, all in a matter ofa dozen weeks, Roark has es-tablished his own chapter inUK history.

“I’m just happy for him,”Martin said. “To go fromwhere he started, end it offthis way, I’m amazed rightnow.”

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while in high school, atDuPont Manual Magnet HighSchool, which offered skills inperforming and visual arts.

There, they joined achoir and began singing.

But they did not alwayssing opera. Kaymon addedthat their teacher, McDanielBluitt, “gave us arias just tosing and from that we grew.”

It hasn’t always been aneasy road for the two.Kaymon said he has encoun-tered some disadvantages,for example majoring inopera means he will be incollege longer.

“It is not overnight suc-cess,” Kaymon said. “Yourwhole life is going to be acompetition.”

Keymon said in operayou have to love what you do.

Kaymon and Keymonsaid one of their dreams is tobecome successful enoughto perform and create theirown arts academy for under-privileged kids.

They also want to exposemore people to a differentstyle of singing, Keymon said.

“We want opera to takeus to the top and we want tobe well known in what weare doing,” Keymon said.

Cynthia Lawrence, theirvocalist teacher, said thebrothers can continue

improving.“Kaymon and Keymon

are earnest young men whohave yet to tap into their fullpotential,” Lawrence said.

She said it is exciting towork with them.

“They work well andthey always have a plan,”she said. “They believe intheir heritage.”

Lawrence said the broth-ers believe in representingspiritual music about the com-munity, and their goal is bring-ing that to other students.

“They have tremendous-ly good voices, but still needto learn the ropes,”Lawrence said. “I have nodoubt that they’ll be success-ful in whatever they choose

to do.”Clay said the Murrahs

are good friends of hers.“Kaymon is really good

at teaching the group andplaying the piano music forus,” Clay said. “Keymonand I work closely togetherto get the business side ofthings done and we workwell as a team.”

Clay said she lovessinging with the group.

The group meets everyother Saturday and plans oncaroling for the children’shospital, she said.

Clay said the groupwants to do some recruit-ment, and one of their goalsis to be a part of the ChoralEnsemble and travel.

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Expressing enthusiasmand passion toward certain is-sues related to the community,but sometimes it can seem alittle overwhelming, time con-suming and even intimidatingif they don’t have the righttools or motivation to turn talkinto action.

“Mobilize Your Commu-nity will be presented by theDiversity Education and Com-munity Building department— an initiative launched bythe Office of Institutional Di-versity and the Office of Com-munity Involvement at UK in2009 to “sustain an activecampus community that em-braces differences and respectscultural and self-identity,” saidRobert Odom, a graduate as-sistant in the department. It isa part of the “Diversity inLeadership” series.

Steve Kay, an activist andprofessional facilitator, willlead the workshop on Fridayfrom noon to 2 p.m. in theRasdall Gallery at the StudentCenter. Lunch will be provid-ed.

The workshop will featuredifferent activities in whichparticipants will experiencehow decisions are made in acommunity firsthand througha “mock community meeting,”said Kay.

Kay, a member of Lexing-ton’s city council, said partici-pants will be able to apply theskills learned in the workshopto any type of community theyare involved in.

“Participants will have theopportunity to learn whatworks well when you’re tryingto engage a community,” Kaysaid. “Could be any communi-ty — students, an organiza-tion, neighbors, any group ofpeople.”

The workshop will featurea simulation of the East EndPlan for the Third Street areadowntown, Kay said.

Participants will be givensome background about theplan and will split up intosmall groups, taking the roleof East End residents to makedecisions on the plan, Kaysaid.

“This mock communitymeeting will give participantsan idea of how the politicalbody of the city works,” Kaysaid.

The workshop will becomprised of two parts — thefirst will highlight the differ-ences between the benefits ofstructure when engaging acommunity and definingwhich elements are importantin a community meeting, Kaysaid.

Secondly, the workshopwill teach participants how tolead well-structured meetingsto engage a community. Kaysaid he believes they will learnmore about their own city’s po-litical structures and expects itto be a fun learning experience.

“There are certain ele-ments I cannot reveal becauseit is important that they experi-ence it firsthand to get themost of it, but I expect peopleto enjoy it,” Kay said.

Odom said 30 people havealready registered for Friday’sworkshop — double the num-ber of participants who regis-tered for their first workshop(the launch of the LGBT Task-force) earlier this fall.

“We had an overwhelm-ingly good response from pre-vious workshops,” Odom said.“For Mobilize Your Commu-nity we are trying to cap it at40; it’s important to keep asmaller group so participantsget the most quality of it.”

Odom believes MobilizeYour Community will really

encourage students to “thinkcritically.”

“As students, they are al-ways used to search(ing) foranswers or hav(ing) answersgiven to them, other thanthinking for themselves, thisworkshop teaches them to dojust the opposite,” Odom said.

Odom said the workshopwill provide students with thecorrect tools to effectively “or-ganize around a cause” theymight be interested in.

“The goal is to increase di-versity on campus,” Odomsaid. “Students are equippedwith knowledge about advan-tages, disadvantages, privi-leges, oppression, racism,LGBT rights or whatever theirthing is, but (do) not alwaysknow what to do with whatthey learn.”

Organizations such as theBlack Student Union andCATalyst will be representedat the workshop by memberswho will be participating onFriday.

“Sometimes in meetingsthe usage of silence can bebeneficial and that might behard to understand,” Odomsaid. “Participants will learnhow and when silence is im-portant. Also giving everyonea chance to share their opinionand respect opposing viewswill be practiced.”

Overall, Odom said he be-lieves “Mobilize Your Com-munity” will provide partici-pants with a structure to de-cide as a group what course ofaction to take when engaginga community in a meeting.

“Students will be able topossibly start their own organ-ization after the workshopwith what they’ll learn,”Odom said.

Students can register bycontacting Robert Odom atrod223@uky.edu by Wednes-day.

Workshop introduces students to leadership,

community activismBy Jennifer Abreu

jabreu@kykernel.com

The No. 14 Cats forced 36 turnoversand out-rebounded the Mississippi ValleyState Devilettes 46-19 en route to a 90-51win at Memorial Coliseum Sunday after-noon.

The Cats’ defense made it difficultfor MVSU to get shots in the first halfand even harder to make shots in the sec-ond half.

It took MVSU more than three min-utes to even launch a first shot attempt.By that time, the Cats had already forcedfive turnovers and had jumped out to a10-0 lead.

UK forced 25 MVSU turnovers andoutrebounded the Devilettes 25-16 in thefirst half, which led to the Cats having al-most twice as many field-goal attempts(39-21). UK led at the half 51-23.

“They get after you from all angles,”MVSU head coach Nate Kilbert said.“It’s something you need more than oneday to work on — you need a month.”

“The path may look wide open, butit’s not,” MVSU forward Brittney Lakessaid, who led the Devilettes with 18points.

MVSU couldn’t find the bottom ofthe net for most of the second half, hit-ting just one of its first 19 field-goal at-tempts during a 28-5 start for the Cats.

The Cats once again had a balancedscoring attack, with seven netting double-figures — all between 10 and 13 pointseach.

“I think that we have numerousweapons,” UK headcoach MatthewMitchell said. “Whenyou have those kind ofweapons on the courtit gives you some con-fidence that no matterwhat situation you arein you can scoreenough points to win aball game.”

“I think any given night anyone canscore,” senior guard Amber Smith said.“It’s not just one player a team can keyon.”

A’dia Mathies, Bernisha Pinkett andBria Goss all scored 13, Keyla Snowdencontributed 12, Amber Smith andSamantha Drake scored 11 and KastineEvans added 10.

Snowden, coming off a 19-point per-formance Friday against Sam HoustonState, was a perfect 4-for-4 behind thearc.

Drake had her second-consecutivedouble-double, with 11 points and 11 re-bounds.

The Cats went 3-0 over the five-daystudent Thanksgiving break, also defeat-

ing Nebraska-Omaha on Wednesday 81-48 and Sam Houston State on Friday 73-52.

Heralded freshman forwardBra’Shey Ali returned to action for theCats after a multi-game suspension. Shegot eight minutes of action Friday againstSam Houston State and contributed sev-en points, four rebounds and threeblocked-shots in 15 minutes of actionSunday in the win over MVSU.

“I’m really proud of her,” Mitchellsaid. “It was not easy for her to get backin this position. She showed us some-thing with her effort and energy today.”

Sophomore guard Maegan Con-wright, who averages 6.7 points in 19.5minutes per game, did not play in thegame.

“We try to be sincere and seriousabout earning your minutes in practice,”Mitchell said. “Her minutes today are areflection of what’s been happening inpractice.”

The Cats (7-0) have a week off be-fore hosting in-state rival Louisville atMemorial Coliseum Sunday at 1 p.m.The Cardinals (6-1) are currently rankedNo. 12 in the coaches poll and No. 11 inthe AP poll.

“We lost by 26 (last season) and Iwas on the bench, and couldn’t do any-thing about it,” Smith said. “That justhurt. I can’t wait, I’m ready right now.”

UK Hoops rolls in 90-51 winUK jumps to 10-0 lead before allowing opponents a shot

By Les Johns

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Snowden

University Avenue wasempty when Matt Roark tooka knee to beat Tennessee.

Commonwealth Stadiumcouldn’t be seen.

But it could be heard.The screams were 26

years in the making but 60minutes in the taking, eruptingupward and outward. Simulta-neously, people in cars on thestreets chimed in with honks,a swelling of noise accompa-nying history being made.

Moving toward Lime-stone, the Tennessee fans ap-peared first, walking in isolat-ed orange-clad packs. Somebore resentful, reluctantsmiles, trying to console them-selves with the knowledge thathey, at least it took 26 years tohappen. Others were down-right pissed, cussing out DerekDooley and Tyler Bray withequal passion.

Move closer to Common-wealth, weaving through thedeparting traffic. Take a laparound the stadium as UKfans file out and the PA speak-er announces that UK justshattered The Streak, in case

nobody around knew why stu-dents were emerging from thestadium gates screaming at theskies, or why old men weredancing next to their cars, orwhy moms were telling theirchildren, “aren’t you glad wedecided to come today?”

The Volunteers fans didnot feel the same way.

“It was more us than Ken-tucky,” said one Tennessee fanwearing orange pants, tryingto rationalize what he wit-nessed. “We have such a f---ing s---ty team.”

This is true. Tennessee re-ally was not a good team. Butit was expected to be betterthan UK. Not on this day.

“We sucked less!” saidone UK fan outside Common-wealth Stadium outside thegame, arms raised and rejoic-ing. “We sucked less!”

Hang around the Com-monwealth Stadium parkinglot. Hear a man crack open abeer and say, “savor it. Thisis the best damn beer I’vehad in 26 years.” Watch fansrecall the plays that matteredmost. Listen to a man ask awoman why she kept takingpicture after picture after pic-ture of the sun setting overthe corner of CommonwealthStadium.

“Because,” the womansaid, “Kentucky finally won.And I was there.”

The scene bigger after beating Tennessee

PHOTO BY MIKE WEAVER | STAFFUK fans stormed the field after a 10-7 win over Tennessee, and thecelebrating continued outside Commonwealth Stadium.

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PHOTO BY BOB WEAVER | STAFFUK head coach Joker Phillips is doused after beating Tennessee. Following the game, Ath-letics Director Mitch Barnhart issued a letter confirming Phillips would be coach next year.

PHOTO BY SCOTT HANNIGAN | STAFFUK freshman forward Michael Kidd-Gilchrist dunks while getting fouled after stealing an inbounds pass. Kidd-Gilchrist scored 11 points in the win.

PHOTO BY BOB WEAVER | STAFFSenior defensive tackle Luke McDermott and senior linebacker Winston Guy sack Tennessee quarterback Tyler Bray, who was held to 215 yards passing.

PHOTO BY MIKE WEAVER| STAFF

The UK football team defeated Tennessee10-7 for the first time in 27 years in a gameKentuckians won’t soon forget.

On Senior Day in Commonwealth Stadi-um, the Cats sent 20 seniors off in a way thatno other senior class in more than a quartercentury could claim.

“I was asked earlier about how much itmeant to me to break the streak as the headcoach,” UK head coach Joker Phillips said. “Itdoesn't mean much to me, it doesn't, to breakthe streak.

“What means more to me is the joy thatthose seniors, the memories that those guyswill have, that’s what means more to me thananything.”

With rumors swirling throughout BigBlue Nation about Phillips’ job security, andwith quarterbacks Maxwell Smith and Mor-gan Newton recovering from injuries, Phillipswent with senior wide receiver Matt Roark ashis squad's starting quarterback against theVolunteers. In the final game of his career,and his first start at quarterback since highschool, Roark surprised home fans and theTennessee defense by finishing 4-6 passing

for 15 yards, with an additional 24 runs for124 yards.

“How many — if we lined up the last 26years — how many quarterbacks have wehad, probably 15?” Phillips said. “Who wouldpick out Matt Roark as the guy who broke thestreak?”

Roark, who was the subject of criticismby the fan base throughout the first half of theseason after a slew of dropped passes, did notfind out officially that he would be the team'sstarting quarterback until Tuesday. Everyoneoutside of the program found out on UK’sfirst offensive play.

But UK passing game coordinator TeeMartin, Roark’s quarterback coach in highschool, said he had all the faith in the world inthe senior to lead a successful offense.

“I was probably the only one of the offen-

sive staff that felt like I knew what to expect,”Martin said. “I’ve seen the guy, we went un-defeated together, me and Matt Roark at quar-terback (at North Cobb High School in Ac-worth, Ga.), so I kinda knew what he woulddo. I'm just happy for him.”

Running the offense mostly out of the pis-tol formation, meaning Roark lined up withspace between himself and the center, but stillwith a running back behind him, the seniorwide receiver/quarterback hybrid moved theUK offense mostly through option reads inthe running game.

UK junior tailback CoShik Williamsadded to Roark's 124 rushing yards with 68 ofhis own and the Cats’ lone touchdown of theafternoon early in the fourth quarter.

The passing game for UK was virtually

By Ethan Levine

elevine@kykernel.com

The streak is dead: UK defeats Tennessee

See FOOTBALL on page 6

10-7 win is the first over Volunteers since a 17-12 victory in 1984

PHOTO BY BOB WEAVER | STAFFSenior Matt Roark, who didn’t find out he would be full-time quarter-back until Tuesday, gained 139 total yards against Tennessee.

Another season haspassed and UK fans exitedCommonwealth Stadiumhearing Tennessee’s band per-form “Rocky Top.”

“Rocky top, you'll alwaysbe home sweet home to me.Good ole …”

Wait, actually no theydidn’t.

The time warp that UKhas been in for the past 26years is over after a 10-7 vic-tory over the Volunteers.

Not only did the Cats fi-nally end the streak, but theydid so in the most unlikely ofyears.

After struggling all seasonlong and fighting the injurybug, the Cats entered Com-monwealth Stadium Saturdaywith a new name atop thequarterback depth chart.

Matt Roark, the wide re-ceiver who at one time wasbenched for his inability tocatch a pass, then the samereceiver who dropped jawswhen he had consecutive 100-yard receiving efforts, wentunder center for the Cats afterthe game kicked off againstUK’s big orange foe from thesouth.

Once the Cats’ defenseforced Tennessee to punt ontheir opening drive, Roarktook the field and ran the ballover and over, along with jun-ior running back CoShikWilliams.

Roark also had a 15-yardpass to senior tight end NickMelillo on the drive thatwould account for all of hispassing yards on the day.

That possession wouldlead to the Cats capturing a 3-0 lead and they never lookedback.

It wasn’t until after thehalf that Roark would show-

Roarkpulls offillogicalupset

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Who guessedthis was the year?

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“ I was probably the only one of the offensivestaff that knew what to expect.”

Tee Martin, wide receivers coach

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The Cats’ talent and athleticism bestedthe disciplined hot-shooting Portland PilotsSaturday night at Rupp Arena, winning 87-63.

The Pilots, coming off three straightlosses, seemed determined to not allow thegame to get out of reach early, slowing downthe tempo and milking the shot clock repeat-edly.

They also capitalized on hot shooting be-hind the arc, going 6-12 in the first half.

The Cats started slow,allowing Portland to take a7-6 lead at the 16-minutemark of the first half.

“We started the gamesloppy,” UK head coachJohn Calipari said. “Theirmotor wasn't running. ...We can't start game likethat. You have to come outof the gate with some ag-gression.”

After trading a coupleof misses, UK freshmanpoint guard Marquis Teagueexecuted a spin move at the right hash of thefree throw stripe, allowing him to elude hisdefender as well as the secondary defenderlurking beneath the basket.

Left alone and going to the basket,Teague short-armed the layup.

The Pilots rebounded and yanked up aquick shot of their own, which was swattedby senior Darius Miller and rebounded bysophomore Terrence Jones, who threw theoutlet down to Teague, who had not made itto the defensive end of the court followinghis miss.

Wide-open again, Teague did not missthis time — he emphatically dunked it —sparking a decisive 25-8 UK run. The Catsnever trailed again.

The Cats went in to halftime with a 38-26 lead, despite Portland’s shooting and a21-16 advantage on the boards.

Aided by two more baskets behind thearc, Portland closed the lead to six (43-37) atthe first media timeout of the second half,with 15:51 to go in the game.

Then Matt Roark, who led the footballCats to victory against Tennessee Saturdayafternoon, ignited the Rupp Arena crowd and

possibly the UK defense when he made anappearance as the “Y” in the “Kentucky”cheer.

After the break, Jones promptly made acouple of free throws and the Cats rampedup the full-court pressure. The pressure ledto back-to-back Portland turnovers and back-to-back slam dunks for the Cats, including ahighlight-reel two-handed jam from fresh-man forward Michael Kidd-Gilchrist thatalso drew a Pilot foul.

“It (the dunk) was crazy,” said Kidd-Gilchrist. “It might be number one for mycareer.”

Kidd-Gilchrist’s ensuingfree-throw connection fin-ished off a 7-0 UK spurtthat lasted 27 seconds.

“A press can change thecomplexion of the game,”said Calipari. “We pressedbecause this team was go-ing to hold the ball.”

“We're real long and itmakes it tough for teams toget it over (us),” Jones said.“Being able to press andgive us five points more in

three seconds is good.”That was the start of a 15-2 run for the

Cats, whose biggest lead of the game was27, at 87-60.

The Cats forced the Pilots to turn the ballover 17 times, converting the turnovers to 22points. The Cats handled the ball well them-selves, only turning it over four times for thegame and dishing out a total of 20 assists.

Portland shot the ball well against theCats, hitting 11 of 23 three-point shots forthe game.

“We shot it well and thought if we exe-cuted our offense that we would get thoseshots,” Portland head coach Eric Revenosaid.

“The biggest thing we have to work on isguarding three-point shooters,” Calipari said.“Florida will take 35 threes against us —that means they will win by 108 points rightnow, if we don't learn to guard a three-pointshooter.”

“We didn't stay connected to shooters,”senior Miller said. “They got a lot of openlooks coming off screen.”

Portland also outrebounded the Cats 39-38.

“They were physical again,” Calipari

said. “They pushed us in the back. Theywedged us.”

“If we don't physically battle before theball hits the rim, it’ll be hard for us to wineither of the next two games,” Calipari said,referencing high-profile matchups against St.John’s and North Carolina Thursday andSaturday.

The Cats were led in scoring by Jones.who was a perfect 2-2 behind the arc, andMiller, who was 4-5 from three point range.Both finished with 19 points.

Five total Cats were in double figures.Teague added 14 points and eight assists.Freshman forward Anthony Davis con-

tributed 13 points and 12 rebounds, whichgave him his second career double-double.He also had four blocked-shots.

Kidd-Gilchrist had 11 points and sevenrebounds.

Sophomore guard Doron Lamb alsoscored nine points, shooting 1-6 from thefield and 7-7 from the line.

“The numbers looked pretty good,” Cali-pari said, “but we have to be better thanwe're playing right now.”

The Cats (6-0) next face the St. John’sRed Storm Thursday in Rupp Arena at 7:30p.m (television coverage on ESPN2). TheRed Storm (4-3) have lost three out of theirlast four contests, including Saturday’s lossat home to Northwestern 64-78.

By Les Johns

ljohns@kykernel.com

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UK pulls away to beat Portland in final tuneup before big games

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non-existent. After a 15-yard completion fromRoark to tight end Nick Melillo for 15 yardson UK's opening drive, Roark was 3-5 forzero net yards the remainder of the game.

But despite an inconsistent and unconven-tional offense, the Cats’ defense rose to the oc-casion and played their second dominatingperformance in two weeks against the Volun-teers. UK was led by senior linebackers Dan-ny Trevathan and Winston Guy, who com-bined for 22 tackles in the final game of theircareers.

The Cats' defense held Tennessee to just276 total yards, limited quarterback Tyler Brayto a sub-par 15-38 passing and allowed theVolunteers to post just seven points on thescoreboard all afternoon.

“Ending a curse that's been an albatrossaround this program for a quarter of a century— think about that,” co-defensive coordinatorRick Minter said. “A quarter of a century,that's a long time.”

With two interceptions and a fumble re-covery on the day, the UK defense once againwon the turnover battle, which under Phillipsand Minter usually means a victory.

Likewise, after heading into the lockerroom with a 3-0 halftime lead, UK droppedTennessee head coach Derek Dooley’s recordwhen trailing at halftime to 0-14. After the

game, Dooley was noticeably upset in theloss.

“Real bad ending to a real bad season,”Dooley said. “It’s hard to say much more thanthat; our biggest fears were realized.”

But after it was all set and done, only onenumber was on the minds of the Cats in thelocker room — 26. The number of consecu-tive years Tennessee had defeated UK. Thenumber of different teams that had put on theblue and white and come together with thecommon goal of beating their rival just acrossstate lines, only to fail.

For the seniors, it was a happy ending to atumultuous final chapter in their UK careers.

“We knew this was the last time we weregoing to be together, the last time we were go-ing to play in front of our fans at Common-wealth Stadium,” senior linebacker RonnieSneed said, “and we wanted to go out with abang.”

“It's been 26 years. That’s too long foranything,” Trevathan added. “I think weplayed our hearts out today. I feel like weplayed one of our best games.”

And for Roark — the most unlikely of he-roes, the wide receiver who couldn't catchturned quarterback who broke the streak —the win is a moment he will never forget.

“I don’t think I’m going to think about anybad things that happened to me in the past,”Roark said. “This was my last game, this wasmy last memory and it’s going to be in myhead the rest of my life

FOOTBALLContinued from page 4

case his abilities with the ballin his hands.

The senior would go onto gain 84 more yards in thesecond half, a few of whichwere key first downs for theCats, and finish with 124yards on 24 carries.

Not only could the fansand Tennessee head coachDerek Dooley not fathomhow the game played out, butRoark couldn’t either.

“I never expected to doanything like that,” Roarksaid. “Not the part of beatingTennessee, but the me quar-terbacking part. It was good.I felt really comfortable outthere.”

It wasn’t until Tuesdaythat Roark learned he wouldbe the full-time quarterback

and he actually began prac-ticing in the scheme pre-pared for him against Ten-nessee.

“How many — if welined up the last 26 years —how many quarterbacks havewe had, probably 15? Whowould pick out Matt Roarkas the guy who broke thestreak?” UK head coach Jok-er Phillips asked after thegame.

Phillips had a point withthat comment. Think of thenames over the years thathave been unable to knockoff Tennessee.

Mike Hartline, RandallCobb, Andre Woodson, JaredLorenzen, Dusty Bonner andTim Couch.

Movies can’t script mate-rial this good and the connec-tion to wide receivers coachTee Martin is just a bonus.

“He looked like he did in

high school, that's exactlywhat he looked like,” saidPhillips.

This is something thatTee Martin was all too fa-miliar with after havingcoached the senior at NorthCobb High School in Ac-worth, Ga.

“I was probably the onlyone on the offensive staff thatknew what to expect,” Mar-tin said after Saturday’s vic-tory. “I’ve seen the guy, wewent undefeated together, Iknew what he would do, soI’m just happy for him.”

Following the soundingof the final horn, the fieldwas painted blue by thestorming UK fans.

As they danced andcheered with their team, Sat-urday’s unlikely hero, MattRoark, was hoisted into theair, squeezing an orange inhis palm.

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Portland was a technicality, afinal game to play before the bigweek, when UK takes on St.John’s and (should have been No.1) North Carolina.

The season may not have beenall rollovers to this point. Kansasin Madison Square Garden was

pretty big. Butthe combinationof these twogames has beenthe landmark des-tination since theseason began.

“They’regreat games,great atmos-pheres,” DariusMiller said. “Idon’t see howyou couldn’t havefun with it.”UK has plenty of

confidence to build on movingforward. They’ve beaten everyteam by double digits (and manyby much more than that), andwhile it hasn’t been the toughestschedule to date, not every topteam can say the same. UK had 20assists and four turnovers, itsfewest since 1993. MarquisTeague has had back-to-back solidgames, including a 14-point, eight-assists, zero-turnover performance

against Portland.“I thought he played a terrific

floor game,” head coach JohnCalipari said.

That included giving up theball on an open breakaway to letTerrence Jones lay it in.

“Best play he’s made all year,”Calipari said.

Portland also showed whereUK needs to improve. Against ateam that had outrebounded its op-ponents by less than one board pergame, UK was outrebounded 21-16 in the first half. On the impor-tant side of the court, it allowedPortland to grab 8 offensive re-bounds while getting only 13 de-fensive rebounds.

“If we don’t physically battlebefore the ball hits the rim,” Cali-pari said, “I don’t think we canwin either of the next twogames.”

Miller said for the young play-ers, improvement will come.

“It’s their first time playing D-I basketball, where everybody’sfaster, stronger, quicker,” Millersaid. “They’ll be fine.”

But now No. 2 UK will likelyascend to No. 1 in the rankings(and if they don’t something iswrong with the voters and thiswhole story is now worthless).

Count me as one who would

have liked to see North Carolinaremain undefeated until the Satur-day showdown. It was shaping upto be this month’s Game of theCentury, the game everyone’sbeen looking forward to sincestars from both teams decided toreturn for a sophomore season. Alittle luster has been lost becauseit’s not the top two unbeatenteams.

I may be in the minority onthat one. If you like seeing thatNo. 1 beside UK, that’s fine. Iwould say, though, that UK re-quires a win against North Caroli-na to be No. 1 after this week, re-gardless of whether or not the TarHeels had lost.

As for the game, the dynamicsof the game haven’t changed. Idon’t think being No. 1 willchange UK’s approach, since aNo. 1 ranking would have been atstake regardless. And I don’t buythat North Carolina suddenly hasmore motivation because of theloss. It was shaping up to be acolossal matchup anyway.

That game is still days away,but the technicalities are done.

“Now this game is over, wereally got to practice hard to getready for these two teams,” An-thony Davis said.

Let the week as No. 1 begin.

Let the week as No. 1 beginNorth Carolina loss likely opens up top spot for UK

PHOTO BY LATARA APPLEBY | STAFFDarius Miller (left) and John Henson (right) will again be on the same court Satur-day. UK and North Carolina played twice last year, each winning once.

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UK plays a lot of big-time games out of confer-ence. This year, it hadKansas (Champions Classic)and St. John’s (SEC/Big EastChallenge), and the tradition-al games with North Caroli-

na, Indiana and Louisville.But with the SEC possi-

bly adding two games to theconference schedule, Calipariis rethinking how many pre-mier out-of-conferencegames his young teams canplay. That many games, hesaid, puts the program atrisk. From his website:

“What I mean by that isthis program is too importantto over-schedule based on theroster turnover that I believewill continue to happen. You

cannot put this program atrisk, not with our turnoverand roster. You CANNOTover-schedule and put your-self in that position.

“With that being said,here is where I want the helpof the Big Blue Nation. If wehad to – and this doesn’tmean we have to at this pointbecause we still have 16league games – but if we hadto drop one series and therewere no other options, whowould it be? Would it be

North Carolina, Indiana orLouisville?

...“What’s best for our pro-

gram? What helps us main-tain the gold standard?!?!

“This will be an interest-ing dialogue. I know who Iwould vote for.”

Interesting dialogue in-deed. Calipari has been aproponent of having a strongschedule. But with two addi-tional conference games, itappears he’s starting to thinkit may be too much. Espe-cially when he doesn’t per-ceive the payoff as being

worth it.“Last year we played a

ridiculous schedule and theyhave us a four seed,” Caliparisaid last week, “so none of itreally matters.”

So who should it be? Myvote, without knowing the lo-gistics of any contracts UKmight have with any of theteams, is Indiana. I don’t thinkanyone would vote to get ridof Louisville. That game’s toovital, for a multitude of rea-sons. And the UK-North Car-olina game is too enjoyableyear in and year out.

That leaves Indiana, a

team that has been lacklusterfor the past few years. Al-though Calipari said Indianawould likely be back amongthe elite within the next fewyears, he’s also good friendswith Indiana head coach TomCrean. My views may becolored because I’m 21 andonly remember them beingnot so good (OK, they’vesucked). I do know thosegames haven’t been amongthose UK fans look forwardto the most.

So if one of those teamshas to be cut, let the Hoosiersgo.

Calipari proposes scheduling hypotheticalAsks fans to choose between UNC, IU, UL

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Remember learning about the“Age of Imperialism” in highschool history class? Rememberthat it was a period from the mid-19th century to early 20th cen-turies?

You were ostensibly, then, un-doubtedly assured that such trans-gressions (along with racism, andsexism, corruption, etc.) weremerely ills of the past, and thatthings are much better now. (Haveyou ever noticed that injustice nev-er exists in modern day, that it’salways just in our past that we hadskeletons in our closet, and thateverything today is just peachy?)

I hate to break it to you, butyou were lied to. American imperi-alism (and these other tribulations)has in no way stopped. In fact, notonly has it continued, arguably justas strongly since this time, it is inmany ways much, much worse.

Why then is it not often talkedabout? If this is such an egregiousproblem, why isn’t it in the spot-light?

There are many reasons whythis is not so. A truly complicatedamalgam of factors including thecorporate-controlled media; cen-

sorship of school textbooks andwatered-down curricula; a wildlyinculcated yearning for the distrac-tions (opiates) of pop culture,sports, and television; governmentpropaganda; and much morewould lead one to deduce that, ifimperialism does indeed exist, ouroligarchs are simply less overtabout it today. And, although theremay be a grain of truth to this as-sumption, sometimes they flauntit.

A paragon of this came just afew weeks ago on Nov. 10, whenSecretary of State Hillary Clintonstated, “it is becoming increasinglyclear that in the 21st century, theworld’s strategic and economiccenter of gravity will be the AsiaPacific, from the Indian subconti-nent to the western shores of theAmericas. And one of the mostimportant tasks of American state-craft over the next decades will beto lock in a substantially increasedinvestment — diplomatic, eco-nomic, strategic and otherwise —in this region.”

What could “otherwise” be?Further statements make it patentlyclear.

Clinton continued, positing,“the 20th century saw the creationof a comprehensive transatlanticnetwork of institutions and rela-tionships.” What she really means,though, is that the 20th centurysaw the creation of a comprehen-sive transatlantic network of

American imperialism.She then clarified, “Its goals

were to strengthen democracy, in-crease prosperity and defend ourcollective security. And it has paidremarkable dividends, in Europeitself in our thriving two-way tradeand our investment, and in placeslike Libya and Afghanistan. It hasalso proven to be absolutely criti-cal in dealing with countries likeIran. The transatlantic system isand always will be a central pillarof America's engagement with theworld.”

Here, again, what she reallymeans is that imperialism is andalways will be a central pillar ofAmerica's engagement with theworld.

Her words drip with imperial-ist jargon. “And just as the UnitedStates played a central role inshaping that architecture across theAtlantic — to ensure that itworked, for us and for everyoneelse — we are now doing thesame across the Pacific ... I haveheard from many different coun-terparts across the Asia Pacific anurgent desire for American leader-ship, which has brought benefitsto this region already for decades.The United States is proud of ourlong history as a Pacific nationand a resident diplomatic, militaryand economic power. And we arehere to stay. … The 21st centurywill be America’s Pacific century,a period of unprecedented out-

reach and partnership in this dy-namic, complex and consequentialregion. American businesses areeager for more opportunities totrade and invest in Asian markets.And we share with most nationsthe goal of broad-based, sustain-able growth that expands opportu-nity, protects workers and the en-vironment, respects intellectualproperty, and fosters innovation.But to accomplish these goals, wehave to create a rules-based order,one that is open, free, transparentand fair.”

Just look at this rhetoric: “wehave to create a rules-based order,one that is open, free, transparentand fair”; “the Asia Pacific (has)an urgent desire for Americanleadership, which has brought ben-efits to this region already fordecades”; “to ensure that itworked, for us and for everyoneelse”; “America’s Pacific century”;and, most blunt of all, “we arehere to stay.”

The scary thing is, however,this was in no way an isolated in-cident. In the second half of thiscolumn, I’ll further address ourelected officials revealing their im-perialist inclinations.

Ben Norton is a music, Span-ish and film studies sophomore.The second half of his submissionwill run in the Kernel later thisweek. Emailopinions@kykernel.com.

The new ‘Age of Imperialism’BEN

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“I think that many peoplehave an automatic disgust inreaction to people who areseverely overweight, likethey are diseased or dis-abled.”

This is a quote from a39-year-old obese womanwho participated in a re-search study. With the cur-rent social standings of ourcountry, it is hard to disagreewith her.

According to one study,many Americans have saidthey would actually rather dieyoung or be blind than beobese. And we wonder whyan estimated eight millionAmericans have an eatingdisorder? We wonder whyone in 200 American women

suffers from anorexia, andalmost three in 100 sufferfrom bulimia?

In our society there is astigma of ugliness, lack ofself-control, ineptitude andlaziness attached to the over-weight and obese. It hasbeen proven that overweightand obese people suffer dis-crimination in the workplace,at school, in relationships andeven when seeking health-care.

Take a look at New Jer-sey Governor Chris Christie.Even though he has donewonders for his state andcould be a formidable oppo-nent in the 2016 presidentialrace, all some people noticeis his weight.

Late night talk show hostDavid Letterman spews anendless number of fat jokesabout the governor. Therehave been numerous articlessaying Christie is too fat tobe president. UnlessChristie’s weight causes

health problems, there’s noreason to say he’s too big foran office.

Discrimination doesn’tstop there either. Some ofthe most harmful treatment ofobese people comes fromtheir own families. In onestudy, when asked to recallsome of their worst stigmaexperiences, one woman said,“my mother telling me in aloud voice at a family gather-ing that I should buy myclothes at the tent and awningsupply store.” Some peoplecan’t even find refuse mock-ery in their own families.

Now let’s look at somestatistics. Technically, beingoverweight qualifies as hav-ing a body mass index of 25to 30. Being obese qualifiesas 30 or above. In the UnitedStates, that includes one thirdof all adults. It includesaround 17 percent of childrenfrom the ages of 2 to 19years old. According to theCenters for Disease Control

and Prevention, Kentucky isranked as one of the mostobese states, weighing in at31.3 percent.

There’s no doubt thatobesity is an increasing prob-lem. Being obese, especiallyseverely obese, is linked toheart disease, stroke, typetwo diabetes and certaintypes of cancer. It is thenumber two most preventablecause of death in the U.S.

But no one chooses to beobese. No one chooses toput their health at risk andface discrimination for theirappearance. There are manyfactors that contribute to obe-sity. Medication, psychologi-cal factors, lack of sleep,stress and genetics are a few.But most of all, it’s a combi-nation of overeating, lack ofactivity and environmentalfactors.

For some people, gettingcontrol of their weight is themost difficult challenge theywill ever face.

Here’s what one womanfrom a study says about herstruggle: “Losing weight ishard and you are hardenough on yourself withoutthe ongoing criticism of oth-ers. Food is an addiction tome and unlike an alcoholic ordrug addict, I cannot removefood from my environment.”

Food addiction is real.It’s as real as alcohol anddrug addiction, but it’s awhole lot harder to kick.Our lives revolve aroundfood. We need food to sur-vive. No pun intended, butthere is no quitting “coldturkey.”

Growing up, I was the fatkid. In middle school I was 5feet 7 inches tall and weighed170 pounds. With sports andextreme dieting I managed tothin out by high school, butmy peers never let me forgetwhat I use to look like. Now,at 21 years-old, I’m finallylearning to eat healthy andcontrol my binge eating. But

I will always have a skewedvision of myself. Because Iwas teased when I wasyoung, I will always feel likethe fat kid, no matter whatthe scale says. I may bescarred from my fat stigmaexperiences, but my scarshardly compare to those ofother people.

So what do we do aboutthis fat stigma our society hascreated? We think. We thinkwith our minds and ourhearts. Let’s have compassioninstead of contempt for thosestruggling with weight. Stopjudging a book by its cover.Stop labeling overweight andobese people as lazy or un-motivated. Recognize thatthey could be struggling withsomething you can’t evenfathom. And if you can fath-om it, why not reach out andhelp? Or, at the very least,just be nice.

Carleigh Griffeth is ajournalism senior. Emailopinions@kykernel.com.

Don’t criticize a person because of their waist sizeCARLEIGHGRIFFETH

Contributingcolumnist

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We scanned our Twitter feed this week-end for the best #BBN tweets. Follow@kykernel to stay involved.

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