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Posted by catmandoo (Member # 1284) on 12-04-2009, 01:31 PM:

Dr. Jim Kovach, the leading tackler in Kentucky football history, will be UK's Southeastern Conference Legend during the SEC Championship Game weekend on Dec. 4-5 in Atlanta, Ga.

Kovach will be honored at the annual SEC Legends Dinner on Friday and will be introduced during the championship game on Saturday.

Kovach played at UK in 1974-76 and '78. He was a three-time All-SEC linebacker while helping lead the Wildcats to the 1976 SEC championship. He earned Academic All-America honors and his 521 career tackles still rank No. 1 in school UK history. Kovach played in the National Football League with the New Orleans Saints and was chosen to the All-Saints' 20th Anniversary Team. During the NFL off-seasons, he earned his medical degree at UK and he added a law degree from Stanford University.

Currently, Kovach is the President and Chief Operating Officer of the Buck Institute, the only independent research institute dedicated to delaying the aging process and preventing chronic age-associated disease. Kovach, and the potential impact his work could have on athletes, were profiled recently in ESPN The Magazine.

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