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Kentucky native Fred Farrier continues to impress during fall camp
Fall camp is underway for the Kentucky Wildcats as we are now close to three weeks away from the opening kickoff at Kroger Field on August 31st.
Once again, Mark Stoops and his staff crushed the transfer portal, bringing in top talents such as Brock Vandagriff, Ja’Mori McClain, Chip Trayanum, and a few others to help impact the offense. One of the shocking surprises of fall camp however has come from a Bluegrass native in Fred Farrier II.
A transfer wide-out from UAB, Farrier comes to Lexington after two seasons in Birmingham. The Frankfort (KY) native and Franklin County product is already making waves with the Kentucky offensive staff and earning some praise from the new Offensive Coordinator, Bush Hamdan, in a recent press conference.
“For so many of these guys, as you know, it’s the football part of it, and it’s that consistency over intensity, day in and day out. Fred is one of those guys that I’m not necessarily mentioning in the media every day, and I think for him, he’s been able to just put his head down and go to work for three, four months,” Hamdan said of Farrier. “I think he, of all the guys on this offensive roster, is a guy that we have been tremendously proud of for those reasons.”
Farrier also recently spoke with Aaron Gershon of The Cats Pause, and had this to say about the chip on his shoulder he has as he makes his return to the Commonwealth.
“Most definitely,” Farrier told the Gershon. “ Being back home, that’s definitely the main reason why I came back, honestly. Just to be able to put my hometown on my back and really show the state of Kentucky I’m still here, I’m still making plays and stuff like that.”
The receiver room has plenty of talent, including Barion Brown and Dane Key, but it does have some question marks. It looks like Farrier may be a player who wants to ensure that those question marks get a positive answer from the opening kick.
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The best shooter in college basketball will, in fact, stay in college basketball — and Kentucky is ready to make its final push.
Iowa State star Milan Momcilovic has withdrawn from the 2026 NBA Draft and will play somewhere at his current level in 2026-27. That’s not expected to be back in Ames, as Cyclone coach T.J. Otzelberger made clear, saying that if the 6-8 forward doesn’t make the jump to the pros, “it’s important that he’s able to find a landing spot at a college that fits what he’s looking for.”
Could Lexington be that final destination? The perimeter sniper already said he’s got respect for the Wildcats and Mark Pope, watching his programs closely since his time at BYU when they competed against each other in the Big 12.
In his eyes, he could be the piece Kentucky was missing this past season in the program’s Round of 32 exit, led by Momcilovic’s 20 points and five rebounds in the Cyclones’ 82-63 victory in St. Louis.
“I think Kentucky would be a good fit,” Momcilovic told the Herald-Leader’s Ben Roberts last week at the NBA Draft Combine. “I obviously went against Pope at BYU his first year (in the Big 12), and I loved how his team played. I think we went 1-1 against them, but they killed us at their place, because they fly the ball up the court and shoot 3s. I really like the way they play.
“And obviously, Kentucky last year, he didn’t have enough shooters around him to really coach, I feel like, the way he wanted. But I think — if I were to choose Kentucky — that would be a good fit for me. I feel like I’d be a great player for him, and he’d be a good coach for me.”
Momcilovic averaged a career-high 16.9 points, 3.1 rebounds and 1.0 assists in 30.5 minutes per game while shooting 50.6 percent from the field, 48.7 percent from three and 87.8 percent at the line. He knocked down 260 3-pointers, good for 3.7 makes on 7.5 attempts per contest.
The former four-star recruit has been Kentucky’s dream portal target all offseason. Now, he’s officially a free agent, pulling out of the draft ahead of the withdrawal deadline.
On Tuesday, head coach Mark Pope revealed that there will likely be no summer trip for the 2026-27 Wildcats.
“We’re probably a lean towards not going right now,” Pope told Darrell Bird of Cats Pause.
The NCAA recently adopted a proposal that will allow schools to take summer tours every year after the rules previously limited schools to one trip every four years. Even if it ended up being somewhere close by, this would’ve been a great experience for the Cats to get some exhibition games in, especially with the roster overhaul they’re going through.
Oh well. The good news is UK will still have plenty of summer practices to develop and build chemistry.
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Funeral arrangements announced for Eastern Kentucky man electrocuted while power washing building
MORGAN COUNTY, Ky. (WKYT) – Funeral arrangements have been made for a Morgan County man who was electrocuted while pressure washing a building last Friday in Johnson County.
Services for 48-year-old Jonathan “Jon” Brown will be Sunday, May 31, at 2 p.m. at Jamie Ferguson’s Garage in West Liberty.
According to his obituary, Brown was a former Morgan County Fiscal Court magistrate, and the owner of Kentucky Pool Company and a power washing business.
Brown also helped out with radio broadcasts of Morgan County High School sports.
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