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LOS ANGELES — Kristen Stewart was a bundle ofnerves talking about "Twilight" a year ago. She's farmore confident these days as "The Twilight Saga: NewMoon" gets ready to rise in movie theaters Nov. 20.
"I think I've gotten a lot more comfortable with talkingabout myself. I couldn't finish a sentence because I was soconcerned about how it was going to sound and I didn'twant to come across insincere about something that I real-ly love to do," Stewart says. "I realized that instead or re-fraining from saying things, I should have said 'I put myheart and soul into this thing and I love it' instead of the re-ally logical, over-analytical reason why I love it."
She had to get comfortable because Stewart andher fellow "New Moon" co-stars, especially Robert Pat-tinson, with whom she's been romantically linked, havebecome constant media fodder. She's been on moremagazine and tabloid covers than the Octomom.
Stewart's take on all the tabloid attention is that itis "false" and "mean."
"It's like a ridiculous show. Like a soap opera thatseems real but you're not quite sure," Stewart says. "Itdoesn't bother me. I don't take it personally, becauseI've had so much experience it's gotten easier to talkabout the work."
It's helped the 19-year-old Stewart has had other act-ing jobs, which are a calming eye in the middle of the me-dia hurricane. Along with filming "New Moon" and thenext movie in the series, "Eclipse," she also has made "TheRunaways" with "New Moon" co-star Dakota Fanning. Herquirky "Adventureland" was released earlier this year.
The "New Moon" filming was the best distraction be-cause it forced Stewart to go into a very different acting di-
rection. While the first film was about finding true love,"New Moon" is about her character Bella trying to reboundfrom the emotional crash that comes when love is lost.
Stewart says, "What I really love about 'NewMoon' is you really see this girl build herself back upand by the time she makes this rash decision to spendeternity with a vampire, she's in a position that you ac-tually believe it. You are old enough, you are matureenough to know. You've lived life. She grows up."
While Stewart has been distracted by her work, thefans have remained focused on the film and its actors.They've been ravenous to know every small detail. Stewartgot a better handle on dealing with all that attention whenshe stopped trying to be so guarded about what she said.
"I'm always going to keep what's important to me,"she says. "People are always gonna want more and Icompletely understand, considering that we're playingcharacters that are so coveted by so many people. I getwhy they want to know more about
Stewart tunes out ‘Twilight’ tabloids
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Cats get scare from Butler, overwhelm Bulldogs in the end
By Nick [email protected]
In their opening weekend, the Cats twicedominated the dogs.
After defeating the Boston Terriers on Fri-day, the UK women’s basketball team turnedits attention to the Butler Bulldogs on Sundayand pulled away for a 87-66 win in front of4,014 fans at Memorial Coliseum.
The Cats’ up-tempo offense went into hi-bernation for the first seven minutes of thesecond half, but after Butler came back toforce a 52-52 tie, the Cats woke up thanks to abucket from freshman Brittany Henderson.That was followed by three straight threes forthe Cats to swing momentum in their favorand pave the way to the 21-point win.
“Brittany Henderson made a hustle play, anoffensive putback when we were strugglingmightily,” UK head coach Matthew Mitchellsaid. “I told (the team) you never know what’sgoing to ignite the rally, you never know what’sgoing to ignite the run. Then (junior guard) Am-ber (Smith’s) three was huge…Rebecca Gray’sthrees were big. Those plays were outstanding.”
Although the momentum swing essential-ly quelled any hope for a Butler comeback byenergizing the home fans, junior forward Vic-toria Dunlap kept her team afloat with clutchplays, earning her second consecutive and15th career double-double with a career-high33 points and 18 rebounds.
Dunlap scored the first nine UK points of
the second half. After the game, she receivedpraise from her teammates and opponents.
Butler head coach Beth Couture said shetried to double team Dunlap, but that someonelike her can’t be easily contained.
“Well, I’m ecstatic that (Dunlap) was onour team and not their team,” Mitchell said.“She’s taken her responsibility of being a go-to player and has exceeded my expectations.”
Dunlap was a bit surprised by her per-formance.
“I just thought I’d have a normal game,”she said.
The game’s first half was a continuationof the offensive muscle UK displayed againstBoston, as the Cats knocked down over 50percent of their shots, and every UK playerwho saw action scored.
The Bulldogs’ attack was spearheaded byjunior Brittany Bowen’s 7-of-7 shooting and 16-point performance in the first half to limit theUK lead to nine at the break.
However, Butler expended so much ener-gy to tie the game that the Bulldogs nevermanaged to get over the cusp and take a lead.
Other than the slow start of Sunday’s sec-ond half, UK’s offense didn’t appear to showany blemishes all weekend.
“(Offensively this is) exactly what youwant to do as a team,” Gray said. “The chem-istry this year has been a lot better than it hasbeen in years past and I feel like we are click-ing a lot better. It’s got to be a lot of fun forthe fans to watch.”
Monday, November 16, 2009 | PAGE 3
By Garrett [email protected]
UK ROTC soldiers ran 3.1 miles simul-taneously with troops in Baghdad on Fridaynight despite being a time difference — andan ocean — away.
Friday night’s Run for the Fallen was ashadow run, meaning multiple groups andhundreds of people took part in the event at
the same time across the globe, said Capt.Joey Orr, a UK ROTC operations officer.
The 5K was held in memory of UKROTC alumnus Jeffrey Graham, who waskilled in 2004 while stationed in Iraq.
Stacey Martinez, who helped coordinatethe event, had dated Graham for five yearsand was engaged to marry him when hedied.
“This started out as just a couple of peo-ple,” Martinez said. “Five of us running —at the absolute most.”
About 50 people, including a George-town cross-country team, took part in therun.
“To have this many people here — itmeans so much,” Martinez said. “And itmeans so much to the Graham family.”
A group of about 60 people at Val-paraiso University near Chicago also joinedin on the shadow run, as well as 700 sol-diers at Camp Slayer in Iraq, she said.
The 5K began in Commonwealth Stadi-um’s blue lot. Guided by assistants wavingAmerican flags and blue glow sticks, partic-ipants ran to Avenue of Champions beforelooping back and finishing at the startingpoint.
But it was the cause, rather than thecourse, that drew many runners to the race.
“This seems like the best cause I’ve everrun for,” said Lindsey Roberts, a 2007 UKgraduate.
Architecture freshman Brooke Robersonread about the 5K and wanted to run “be-cause of the troops,” she said.
The soldiers in Iraq were able to run be-cause coalition forces heavily protected thearea, Orr said.
“All over the U.S. people are running atthe same time to support our troops,” Mar-tinez said. “Just being out here, supportinghim, supporting the troops, running for thefallen soldiers — and not just the fallen, allwho are serving….it’s touching.”
Local groups, ROTChonor fallen solders
Dance minor cut because of ‘low enrollment’By Laura Clark
A program revitalized more than20 years ago is dancing its way outof UK.
The Department of Kinesiologyand Health Promotion made the de-cision to cut the Dance Certificationprogram and the dance minor Nov.4, according to an e-mail from thedepartment’s chair to students in theprogram.
The College of Education minorwas suspended because of “limitedresources and low student enroll-ment,” said KHP chair Melody
Noland in the e-mail. Noland saidstudents will be given the opportuni-ty to complete the program andwere directed to meet with an advis-er to discuss the timeline andcoursework of their remainingdance curriculum.
The suspension of the danceprogram is occurring the same yearthe professor responsible for re-building it retired.
Rayma Beal, former programhead and UK Dance Ensemble di-rector, retired in June 2009. Beal iscredited for establishing the UKDEand rebuilding the dance minorsince her appointment in 1986.
Before she arrived at UK, Bealsaid the dance program had attempt-ed to move from the College of Ed-ucation to the College of Fine Artsin 1979, but because of differingopinions on where the programshould have gone, most of the dancefaculty left, leaving her to pick upthe pieces.
The decision to cut the universi-ty’s dance program now is a stepback to 1979, Beal said.
Beal said approximately 20 stu-dents currently have a dance minorand that number has been consistentfor the past 12 to 15 years.
Audra Flanagan, business man-
agement major and dance minorjunior, said dance was the reasonshe came to UK.
“It makes me sad because Ken-tucky itself isn’t supportive of danceat all,” Flanagan said. “I’m from asmall hometown, so there weren’tmany dance opportunities.”
Flanagan said many dance class-es offered as part of the minor willbe discontinued. However, she saidany dance classes kept would beconsidered a service course withKHP not to learn about dance, butjust for the physical activity.
For fifth year kinesiology majorand dance minor Courtney Guidry,
classes will be available for her tocomplete the dance program, butothers are not so lucky.
“It’s really a shame,” Guidrysaid. “… Dance is always one of thefirst things to go, across the board.The arts, in general, get cut first ineconomic situations like this.”
Kentucky has a lot of talenteddancers, Guidry said, and losing aprogram like this will hurt the statebecause those wanting to studydance will leave.
“All this talk about wanting tobe a top-20 institution, but yetthere’s no emphasis in the arts?That’s a real problem,” she said.
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PHOTO BY ALLIE GARZA | STAFFStacey Martinez runs with her shadow behind her during the first Shadow Run for Fallen Soldiers at UK on Friday night.
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Taylor Vit stood on the ice,spread his arms wide and lookedup to the rafters, and thenpumped his fist to punctuate his5-on-3 power play goal with justunder 3:00 left to play that al-lowed the UK hockey team tobreathe just a little easier.
The goal finally iced the 10-7victory for UK (17-2) against asurprisingly resilient Eastern Illi-nois team that entered the week-end unranked but gave Kentuckyall it could handle.
“That goal was more relief tofinally know we got through witha win,” Vit said.
Relief. That seemed to bethe consensus feeling after a de-cidedly disappointing perform-ance against a team that UK beat11-2 on Friday night beforestruggling 24 hours later.
“We played just good enoughto win,” UK head coach RobDocherty said. “Everything canimprove. A win is a win, but weshouldn’t be playing just goodenough this far into the season.”
The seven goals allowedwere the most allowed in a winall season. Eastern Illinois at-tempted 39 shots and consistent-ly pressured goalie Derek Stein-brecher by crashing the net.Eastern Illinois also scored twopower play goals.
“We were lazy,” senior TonyValerino said. “We thought wewould score 100 goals, and de-fensively we weren’t helping outDerek at all.”
The defense broke down re-peatedly throughout the night.UK found itself clinging to aslim lead the whole game, neverbuilding more than a three-goalcushion as it kept giving leads
right back.“Tonight was a hot and cold
thing,” Docherty said. “It wasthe first time we’ve played likethat, and we just kept giving upleads.”
In the back and forth battle ofgoals, the Cool Cats’ first lineprovided the heaviest firepowerof all. Eastern Illinois was weakin front of the net, giving upplenty of open space that allowedforwards to set up and shoot al-most at will. The first line ex-ploited that weakness time andtime again. Valerino scored fourgoals and added two assists andVit took over the second andthird periods with a hat trick ofhis own.
“The first line did have onewicked night,” Docherty said.“They really showed their leader-ship skills tonight carrying us tovictory.”
Even with two forwards lead-ing the way for a dominant firstline, the team as a whole knowsit didn’t play as well as it could.Eastern Illinois, in a series sand-wiched between playing Indianaand division challenger OhioState, almost played spoiler.
“We escaped with the wintonight, no doubt about it,” Va-lerino said. “But I think we’refine, there’s no reason to worry.I just want to forget about thisweekend to be honest.”
Docherty would rather theteam remember the need to comeout strong every game, especiallygiven that UK has established it-self as a top team that everyoneelse guns to topple.
“Tonight will be a lesson forus,” he said. “We thought itwould be a gimme for us and itwasn’t, but we live and we learn.We needed a game to bring usdown to earth.”
Hockey avoids upset,sweeps weekend
For freshman, nicotine relieves his stressBy Katie Perkowski
Bradley Irvin likes to take fiveminutes for himself every now andthen to smoke a cigarette and relievehimself of typical — and not so typi-cal — stresses.
After graduating from ScottCounty High School in 2004, insteadof spending the next four years in adorm room or a classroom, Irvinspent his days working on a Navyship traveling Asia, something mostcollege students have never experi-enced.
Irvin spent his time in the Navyworking as a cryptologist, decodingand deciphering secret messages, andmaking decisions he said either savedlives or ended them.
After leaving the Navy in June2008, his experiences and new skillswere not the only thing he was leftwith.
While in high school Irvin said heonly tried cigarettes and cigars a fewtimes, but after serving in the Navyand being constantly under stress andin a tobacco-using environment, hedeveloped a nicotine addiction.
“The military runs off of ciga-rettes, coffee and energy drinks, andif you take away any one of those, it’sgoing to crumble beneath its feet,” hesaid.
Irvin said a combination of thingsadded to the stress of his Navy job,including being on a ship for extendedperiods of time, working up to 48-hours at once and having a limitednumber of women on board.
“If you’re a smoker (in the Navy)and you can’t smoke, you’re going tokill somebody,” he said.
After his stint in the Navy, Irvinspent a year searching for a govern-ment contract job but had no luck, sohe enrolled at UK. He is now in hisfirst semester as a physics student.
Irvin said in the months aftercoming home from Asia he had mas-sive depression for about a year, andsaid he is still learning to deal with it.
The biggest thing he misses is thecomradery he felt from those aroundhim.
“Everybody’s a part of the samefamily, then you leave and it’s like‘Oh you’re family’s gone, what areyou going to do?’ ” he said.
Irvin said one of his biggest chal-lenges is explaining his experiencesto people who have never served.
“They don’t grasp the full spec-trum of what I’m talking about,” hesaid. “A really weird thing about vet-erans…if you find out someone’s aveteran and you’re a veteran, you’repretty much friends instantaneously.”
Throughout his time of adjust-ment, Irvin said one thing that pro-vides him comfort is nicotine,because it reminds him of being in theNavy and gives him time to himselfto think and wind down.
“I just like having that five min-utes, I’m just sitting there smoking, Ican think about things, basically justtaking five minutes for myself everytwo hours,” he said.
Irvin said he disagrees stronglywith the upcoming tobacco ban andsaid his biggest problem with it is the“culture of compliance” aspect, call-ing it “communist” and conforming.
“They’re not doing it for health,they’re not doing it for anything likethat. They’re doing it because all theother schools are doing it,” he said.“Monkey see, monkey do, and whenmonkey don’t do, monkey getslooked down upon.”
Irvin said since leaving the Navyhe has gone from smoking up to twopacks a day to a little less than a packa day, but does not think quitting nowwould be a good idea, since he is stilladjusting.
He said while serving in theNavy, he had millions of dollars ofequipment and personnel under himand learned to find comfort in thestress.
“I’m used to all this stress, andI’m used to operating under certainstressful situations, and if I don’thave that stress then I started gettingstressed,” he said. “To try and quitnow would be too much for me tohandle.”
For now, Irvin said he plans onkeeping his smoking habits the sameas usual.
“I spent four years of my life de-fending this country, I can smokewherever and whenever I feel likeit,” he said.
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It's not hard to walk around campus and find plenty of 18-,19- and 20-year-olds who would like nothing more than for thedrinking age to be lowered to suit them. It's easy to understandwhy. There are plenty of rights afforded to those students, andit doesn't always make sense they students have so many rights,but are still unable to drink legally.
Those arguments were weighed at a debate on Thursdaynight at Worsham Theatre, as John McCardell and James Fellargued the merits and shortcomings of the current drinkingage, according to a Nov. 13 Kernel article.
But in the simplest terms, lowering the drinking age doesn'tmake sense for safety reasons. It's hard to believe that loweringthe drinking age from 21 to 18 would have a noticeable effecton binge drinking, as McCardell argued while saying that low-ering the drinking age is the right thing to do.
Young people — especially in a college environment —would still be apt to binge drink, and that problem goes be-yond the legal limitations put on the under-21 crowd.
Lowering the drinking age would also make alcohol increas-ingly accessible to an even younger group of people, and someof the problems now associated with 18-year-olds drinking mightwell shift to 16-year-olds, instead of disappearing if the age wereto be lowered.
"When the drinking age is lowered, problems increase,"Fell said. "The drinking age saves lives."
McCardell was unable to cite any statistics throughout thedebate on any positives lowering the drinking age might have,but Fell was able to use numbers to show that not lowering thedrinking age increased safety in several areas.
"There is no evidence the drinking age has been harmful,"Fell said. "No data suggests (the law) increases alcohol poi-soning, binge drinking or alcohol-related injuries."
While Kentucky and other states don't have to comply withthe federal under-21 law and can set their own drinking age,that doesn't make any sense either.
Doing so would cost the state a significant sum of federalfunding for highways, and that isn't anything Kentucky can af-ford. With Kentucky's current budget shortcomings and the strug-gle to find enough money for things like higher education, takingfree federal money away from a state just so people could drinkat 18 instead of 21 would be incomprehensibly foolish.
But in the end, the most important thing is keeping thedrinking age at 21 is what keeps people safe. Putting people'slives at risk for such a trivial matter would be thoughtless andcould have repercussions beyond what anyone could foresee.With something as invaluable as the life of young people atstake, it simply doesn't make sense to try and change the drink-ing age now. It can be difficult for young people to accept, andtheir frustrations with the law are more than understandable.
Students should remember that safety is paramount. Keepingpeople out of harm’s way is the primary objective of the drink-ing age, and it has done that successfully. There’s no reason tolower the drinking age as long it keeps people safe, and that’swhat people should have taken away from Thursday’s debate.
OPINIONSMonday, November 16, 2009 Page 4
KERNEL EDITORIAL
In the end, we will be our own demise
Drinking age limitprotects students,should remain 21
Every beginning has an end. It’sa simple, yet true, statement. Per-haps one of the longest, outstanding
beginnings yet toreach its end, ismankind. With therelease of the movie“2012” over theweekend, a moviedepicting the end ofthe human civiliza-tion in the year2012, the questionarises as to whenmankind will reachits end.
There have beenmany doomsday theories throughouthuman history. In the mid-1300ssome theorists believed that the BlackDeath was a “divine action to wipeout humanity.”
Then, in 1921, Henry Adams be-lieved a scientific catastrophe wouldcause the end of the world.
Between 1980 and 1999 therewere at least five known theories re-garding the end of the world.
Most recently, Robert Bremer,amongst others, predicted Y2K wouldcause the failure of most technology-based systems, perhaps leading to thedestruction of mankind. In all cases,though, mankind escaped.
This brings us to the theory cur-rently at the top of the list, which isthe belief that the world will end onDecember 21, 2012 was developedby the Mayan civilization more than5,000 years ago. That day, they be-lieve, marked the end of a cycle andtherefore is the date on which theMayan calendar stops, according to aHistory Channel documentary. Howdo they support this theory?
First is the idea that a comet will
hit the Earth in 2012 and completelydestroy the planet. Second is the be-lief that the twelfth planet Nibiru(or Planet X) will crash into theEarth, causing its destruction. Andthird is the theory that the humanswill continue to go to war and even-tually cause their own demise, ac-cording to an article titled “2012Comet.”
As astounding as this evidence is,where does it get us? Well, it hasthousands of people freaking outabout a theory that is more than5,000 years old and was developedlong before modern technology.
Nowhere in the Mayan theoriesdoes it say that NASA will be able totrack nearly every comet throughspace before 2012, but they can. Andthere may be a twelfth planet some-where in the universe for all weknow, but then again there may bethousands of planets out there thatnobody knows about.
The only thing worth believingthat the Mayans predicted is humanswill eventually cause their own de-mise.
But honestly, who couldn’t havepredicted that? Since the beginning ofhuman civilization there has been adesire and emphasis for power. Thetwo most basic ways of attainingpower: wealth and war. It’s only nat-ural that one of those two things
cause human destruction.In fact, it’s such a simplistic and
unimaginative theory that theYouTube video “End of Ze World”predicts the exact same thing. Thevideo illustrates the theory that oneday almost every country will be fir-ing nuclear warheads at each other,stemming from an initial nuke theU.S. shoots at China.
Throughout the turmoil, Aus-tralian kangaroos are still just hang-ing out, Canadian hockey playershave no idea what is going on, allwhile Mars laughs at us and meteorsavoid crashing into our mess of aplanet. The only survivors are Cali-fornia, which breaks off from theU.S., Alaska and Hawaii, who allchill in the Pacific.
When it comes down to it, the“End of Ze World” video is muchshorter than reading pages of theoriesfrom the Mayan civilization, and ahell of a lot funnier. The only differ-ence is that nowhere in the videodoes the number 2012 appear, unlikein all of the Mayan theories.
The human civilization will oneday end; after all, every beginningdoes have an end. But there is no rea-son to believe we will be around tosee that ending.
Although the theory will un-doubtedly gain popularity and inter-est as we approach the year 2012,that does nothing to establish prooftowards the merit of the belief. Soon December 11, 2012, while thou-sands of others freak out around theworld, do what I’ll do: get onYouTube and watch a simple historylesson on what the end of “Ze”world will really look like.
CJ Conklin is an accounting andfinance junior.
CJ CONKLIN
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The only thing worth believing that the Mayans predicted is humans will
eventually cause their own demise.
The U.S., like all nations, has amultitude of problems. The entiretyof this column could be used
spelling them outin a list that wouldtake about fiveminutes to make.
Because ofthis, we attempt tosend our best andbrightest to Wash-ington, D.C. tohammer out thetough issues andkeep our nationstrong. Like al-most any other
system though, it works a lot bet-ter in theory than in practice.
Heavily contentious topicspresent the opportunity to bring outthe best or the worst in people.When voters send their representa-tion to the capital, they do so in thehope that when important momentsarise, their choices will be wiseand set a shining example for therest of Congress and the nation.
Unfortunately, the politicalprocess instead seems to be quite apt
at electing those who will act likelunatics when pressed against a wall.
It’s not exactly new for politi-cians to be at one another’sthroats. And, it could even be ar-gued things have improved fromthe past. Two hundred years agosome disputes in D.C. were beingsettled with pistols. Now the invogue method to combat one’senemies when out of options issimply to act like an insufferablejerk.
Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., shot tothe lead of the pack last weekwhen he garrisoned fellow Repub-licans into an amazing display ofimmaturity during a Congressionalsession.
In an act reminiscent of a four-year-old’s temper tantrum, theGOP spent an inordinate amountof time shouting objections overevery single thing said by theDemocratic Women’s Caucus con-cerning the health insurance billcirculating in the House.
This, of course, led to almosteveryone losing their cool afterawhile except for the chair of the
preceding, who apparently was notprepared to deal with overgrownchildren that day.
Despite his pleas for everyonepresent to maintain some decorumto try to avoid creating a hilariousand saddening YouTube video, theinsanity went on unabated toridiculous lengths.
It all served its purposethough, since it proved once againthat the course of the U.S. is guid-ed by anything but the best andbrightest. If the campaign tacticsof the average politician were notbad enough, then one only has to
look at their behavior in incidentslike this to see it plain as day. Thisis not the behavior of anyone thatshould be helping guide the fate ofover 300 million people.
Unfortunately, it’s difficult tosee any path through this darkness.Gaining political influence hasvery little to do with intelligenceand quality as a person. It usuallycomes down to connections, pan-dering and a willingness to sell outtruth in order to cobble together amajority of the vote.
Instead of sending smart, expe-rienced people to represent our na-tion, it is usually the case that wesend the guy our favored party hasput forth for election no matter ifhe has any real qualification tohandle massively-complicatedglobal issues.
The entire affair is more astatement about the electorate thanthe elected in the end. Congress-men Price and Co. were who theywere, and the embarrassment cre-ated by their actions can beblamed right onto the shoulders ofthose who put them in their posi-
tion. When a member of Congressacts like a deranged mental pa-tient, it’s not them we should beashamed of, it’s us.
It may be natural tendency to al-low what has occurred with politicalsystems. It’s easy to bunch up intwo separate corners and focus moreon beating those you disagree withthan working together on a goal.
Unfortunately it gets our nationexactly where it sits today, full ofcorrupt politicians who can’t evenact with the decency you’d find ina middle school student council.
The events of last week aresimply another pebble on themountain of depressing ineptitudethat envelopes the federal govern-ment on both sides of the aisle.Every election cycle, Democratsand Republicans act like puttingthem into power will sweep outthe problems of the past and leadto a glorious future. In realitythough, both are very much theproblem and not at all the solution.
Tim Riley is an MBA graduatestudent. E-mail [email protected].
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Junior tail-back DerrickLocke led UKwith a career-high 144 rush-ing yards tobeat Vander-bilt 24-13 onSaturday. UKis bowl eligi-ble for thefourth consec-utive year.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. –Derrick Locke finished with acareer-high 144 rushing yardsand a touchdown on Saturday,but his biggest play didn’tcome on the ground. MorganNewton completed 4-of-7passes for 40 yards, but noneof those numbers encom-passed UK’s biggest playthrough the air in UK’s 24-13win over Vanderbilt on Satur-day in Vanderbilt Stadium.
When the junior tailbackswept right on a Wildcat play,the freshman quarterback waswide open. One spiral and 41yards later, UK (6-4, 2-4Southeastern Conference) wason its way to becoming bowleligible for a school-recordfourth-consecutive season.The completion from Locketo Newton set up a rushingtouchdown from RandallCobb on the next play.
“I was like, ‘I hope hecatches the ball and makes a
play,’ ” Locke said. “I kind ofsaw him bobble it a little, buthe caught it and made a play.It helped us out, moved usdown the field and got us ascore.”
Locke finished the daywith 218 all-purpose yards.Sophomore wide receiverRandall Cobb ran for 102yards and two touchdowns,piling up 170 all-purposeyards of his own. UK headcoach Rich Brooks said bothplayers were completelygassed after the game andplayed through cramps duringthe second half.
“Randall Cobb was amaz-ing as was Derrick Locke,”Brooks said. “We put our-selves in position now withour second conference winand sixth overall win to be inthe postseason for the firsttime in school history of four-straight years, but our work isnot done by a long shot.”
Coaches spent much ofthe second half imploringCobb and Locke to go to the
sidelines so they could beused later. Locke also suf-fered a minor head injury, butstill returned to score UK’s fi-nal touchdown.
“I’m not coming out,”Cobb said. “I don’t want tocome out and I’m going togive everything I’ve got. Ifyou’ve got to carry me off thefield that’s what I want.That’s how it’s always goingto be and I’m going to bleedblue like I always have.”
The Cats finished with308 yards rushing, almost200 of which came in the sec-ond half after Brooks told histeam the offensive line wouldhave to take over the game.With every yard gained byLocke and Cobb, the Cats ap-peared to grow stronger. TheUK defense shut the Com-modores out completely inthe second half, only givingup 31 yards after the break.
A decidedly pro-UK crowdin Nashville helped out theCats’ cause. Attendance wasannounced at 33,675, but plen-
ty of those weren’t there for theCommodores (2-9, 0-7 SEC).
“We had more fans thanthey had, it seemed,” saidsenior linebacker SamMaxwell, who led UK withnine tackles. “That’s goodsupport. We need that kind ofmotivation when we’re outthere.”
For those fans who madethe trip, they left with hopesof another December spentbowling.
“It is a huge thing,”Brooks said of becomingbowl eligible again. “Youcan’t really downplay that inmy mind because it’s neverhappened. But at the same to-ken, we’re not happy withwhere we are at this stage …We lost two games (SouthCarolina and MississippiState) and we’d be looking alot better right now if we’dhave won one of those, letalone two of them. And thosewere very tough losses butI’m proud of how the teamhas bounced back.”
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Four yearsago, a Louisville kid named Corey Pe-ters committed to play football for UK
not knowing what toexpect.
The program hada coaching staff stillstruggling to makegood on its promiseto turn thingsaround. Young talentwas brewing, but noconsiderable groundhad been made up interms of wins andlosses.
Everybody inblue and white wanted to win, and theyall thought they could win. They justhadn’t won yet.
Still a high schooler, what was Pe-ters supposed to expect?
Whatever it was, he said he didn’tnecessarily expect to be bowl eligible inall four of his college years.
Thanks to UK’s win over Vanderbilton Saturday, he is.
Peters and his fellow seniors makeup the first ever senior class in UK’shistory to have gained bowl eligibility inall four seasons. Peters said it happensto players at other schools all the time,especially fellow Southeastern Confer-ence schools.
But at UK? Isn’t football just a fun
little bridge between summer and bas-ketball season? Not anymore.
“When we got here, we just wantedto build something positive,” Peters said.“But after that first year, I knew that notbeing bowl eligible wasn’t an option.”
And clinching that fourth-straightbowl eligible season in Nashville madesense. Peters’ first two bowl games, the2007 and 2008 Music City Bowls, wereplayed across town at LP Field. Factorin the Cats’ 27-20 win at Vanderbilt in2007, and this senior class is now 4-0 inthe Music City.
Nashville’s been awfully kind tothese players.
Would they mind another trip acrossthe Bluegrass Parkway and down I-65in December for another Music CityBowl?
“I’m OK with any bowl,” Peterssaid. “Of course we want to go to betterbowl games and continue to improve.But if Nashville would have us, we’dlove to be here.”
UK earned its sixth win not by blow-ing out its opponent. Instead, much likewhat happened when UK won at Auburnin October, the Cats were down at half-time and called on the defense to step up.
“I told the defense we had to shutthem out in the second half,” Brookssaid. “Pure and simple.”
So the defense took ownership of theline of scrimmage, knowing Vanderbilt’s
passing attack was already limited. Notonly did the Cats outscore Vandy 14-0 inthe second half, but UK held Vanderbiltto just 31 total yards after halftime.
Defensive coordinator Steve Brownsaid he told his players just to have con-fidence in coverage, because the Com-modores’ less-than-stellar passing gamewent for 122 yards in the first half.
Not all of Brown’s defensive play-ers are seniors like Peters, and theymay not understand the significance ofgaining that bowl eligibility. If theyplay with more passion in the secondhalf, Brown thought, things might beeasier.
Brown said the players came outwith that confidence. As a result, Van-derbilt passed for just five yards in thesecond half.
“He’s told us that before,” Peters saidin reference to Brooks’ second-half chal-lenge to the defense. “I don’t think theresult has ever been this good, though.”
And just like that, Peters is eligiblefor his fourth bowl in as many yearssuiting up for the Cats. Is that what heexpected when he signed up for UKfootball? Not necessarily.
But because of what this senior classhas done, UK prospects from here onout may think along those lines.
As well they should.James Pennington is a journalism
senior. E-mail [email protected].
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