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Topic: Tipton’s retirement marks the end of an era in UK B ball rage
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catmandoo
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posted 07-06-2022 01:43 PM
Here in the Commonwealth, there’s nothing bigger than the University of Kentucky basketball team. Outsiders might see this as hyperbole, but it’s (mostly) true. People care passionately and irrationally about their Wildcats. The desire to know every detail is insatiable.
For 41 years, Jerry Tipton chronicled the Bluegrass State’s blueblood program for the Lexington Herald-Leader. That remarkable run is over.
Tipton, the Kentucky men’s basketball reporter since the 1981-82 season, officially retired last week. It’s the end of an era and the beginning of a new one.
Ben Roberts, who covered recruiting previously for the newspaper, now takes over one of college basketball’s most prestigious and competitive beats.
When we talk about sports, we often speculate on how difficult it will be to replace an iconic coach or player. Try filling the shoes of an iconic scribe.
Tipton, 70, is a member of the U.S. Basketball Writers Hall of Fame and Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame.
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Bama Cat
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posted 07-07-2022 03:43 PM
He's been around a long time.
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Tiptree
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posted 07-07-2022 04:20 PM
I was an undergrad at UK when he started. LOOOONG time ago. ![[Embarrassed]](redface.gif)
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Tiptree
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.” Thomas Jefferson
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