When Black athletes are no longer willing to play for Kentucky as long as its gym is named after Adolph Rupp, the name will change. Sports newsletter 🏈's best, via 📧 Studio IX 🏀⚽️🥇 ...

Rupp Arena is named after the University of Kentucky's famed basketball coach Adoph Rupp. There are calls to remove his name because during his famed 42-year career, he only had one Black player.

The arena, which is now called Rupp Arena at Central Bank Center after a naming rights deal, is undergoing a $275 million renovation. The project is expected to be completed in time for the 2021 ...

Herald-Leader columnist John Clay thinks Adolph Rupp’s name should remain on Rupp Arena. He cites a personal act of grace by Rupp toward a Black player in the late 1940s. The University of ...

Listen to Adolph Rupp's explanation of why he did not sign more Black players in the video above. You can listen to all the Rupp interviews collected by the Louie B. Nunn center here . “I don't ...

A group of professors in the University of Kentucky’s African American and Africana Studies Program has resurrected the debate over Adolph Rupp in the basketball-crazed Bluegrass State once again.

A decade before Adolph Rupp III played for Vanderbilt, he was an 8-year-old boy in the unfinished Kentucky arena that bears his grandfather’s name.

Adolph “Herky” Rupp Jr., 75, died Wednesday. He was the son of legendary University of Kentucky basketball coach Adolph Rupp. He grew up around UK basketball and played three varsity seasons ...

LEXINGTON – Should Adolph Rupp have been faster to integrate the Kentucky basketball program? To hear Rupp tell it, his delay in signing a Black player until 1969, six years after the university ...

The faculty of the University of Kentucky's African American and Africana Studies program has asked UK president Eli Capilouto to change the name of Rupp Arena because the legendary basketball ...