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Last night I went to my first UK baseball game of this season (I have been busy). They started out with 2 homers and then scored unother run, up 3-0 on Florida then that's where everything crapped out and they lost 9-6. Anyways I'm going to the 2nd game in the series tonight, I will be giving updates through my Twitter if you care and want updates on the game. My Twitter account is [URL="http://www.twitter.com/Win_city_barney"]www.twitter.com/Win_city_barney[/URL]

I understand that football and basketball are the main sports but would it be to much to ask to put the baseball schedule on the Upcoming games list?

This makes the 18th National Championship the Kentucky Cheer-leading squad has won...that makes the 7 basketball championships seem kind of small. Yeah, I know it's cheer-leading, but anytime UK dominates something it's got to make you feel good.

Here's their performance....



and here's the breakdown from ukathletics.com
Head coach Jomo Thompson and the cheerleading squad has now claimed three consecutive national championships, including 14 out of the last 16 years.

The Wildcats finished way ahead of the competition, posting a final score of 96.517 out of 100. Alabama finished second with an 89.517 and Central Florida finished third with an 88.517.

“Each one we win is just as special as the first one,” said Thompson, who has now won 12 national championships during his time both cheering and coaching at UK. “It is great to see the kids work so hard and accomplish a goal. We always have adversity, it comes up every year. A couple of kids got the stomach bug down here but we battled through it and didn’t let anything stop us from our goal. We did what we set out to do: win another national title.”

Kentucky won eight straight national titles from 1995 to 2002 before finishing second in 2003. The Wildcats then won three straight from 2004 to 2006, falling short in 2007 with a third-place finish. UK has since claimed the title the last three years. Since Kentucky won its first title in 1985, it has won in 1987, 1988, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2010 - more than any other Division IA school.

“It never gets old,” Thompson said. “I enjoy winning. I want to collect as many rings as we can get, and so does this program. That is something that we strive for every year. It we get second or third, we are not satisfied with that. We want first place.”

Kentucky blue is spread all over the top three with several former UK cheerleaders working on the Alabama and UCF staff. Former UK assistant coach David McDowell is now the head cheerleading coach at Alabama. McDowell was a UK cheerleader from 2001 to 2003 and took over assistant coaching honors from 2004 to 2006. UCF’s coach also cheered at UK in the early 1990s.

Last week we broke down the top five Kentucky Sports Blogs in the "Grass Roots' category. As a reminder, here are the five categories we're covering.

Grass Roots Blogs - Winner - Kentucky Sports Radio (www.kentuckysportsradio.com)
Link Blogs
Media affiliated Blogs
Overall Blogs
Discussion Boards

This week we're ranking"Link Blogs". A link blog post a sort of digest of all the latest UK news from around the web. If you're not familier with this type of blog, you will be soon. We could only find three blogs that specialize in links, so we just ranked them. Let us know if we missed anyone by leaving a comment on this post. Here we go!......

#3.)UK Big Blue Nation - (www.twitter.com/ukbigbluenation) - Presence is on Twitter and Facebook. UKBBN, seems to have used RSS feeds to keep everone up to day on the latest UK news. This is an easy way to get live updates on what is going on. The huge benifit of using twitter, is that it's easily accessible on all mobile phones. You can have every update sent right to your phone if you desire.

#2.) Aaron's UK Basketball Blog (http://kybasketball.blogspot.com) - A great resource for your latest UK Basketball links. Aaron does a great job selecting the news that is of most interest to CAT fans. Using a single picture and a link to the article is all that is needed. You may not get all your news here, but you're gauranteed to read something interesting that you may not have found anywhere else.

*************** And The Winner Is!!! ***********************

#1.) Spams Wildcat Page - (www.spams-ukwildcatbasketball.com) - Spams Wildcat Page does an excellent job of posting the latest UK news each day right on the home page. By just listing the link and nothing more, readers are able to browse the hottest UK news for that day. Just by scrolling down the page, the previouse days links are easily accessible. I've found that this method of posting links provides the reader with an easy way to browse through as many links in the shortest amount of time possible. That's why Spams Wildcat Page is a definite stop to any UK Fans morning.