The CatsIllustrated.com Tuesday Newsstand covers football, baseball and recruiting topics at length.
Jarred Vanderbilt signs and awaits results of recent medical testing, football players continue taking visits, basketball recruiting heats up down the stretch, Duke gets involved with a UK target and assessing UK's recruiting success in Ohio. Also, baseball has a challenging week.
Content from Cats Illustrated and Rivals.com
RECRUITING: 2019 QB Xavier Malone recaps latest trip to UK. CatsIllustrated.com spoke with the sophomore quarterback from the Volunteer State.
RECRUITING: Basketball recruiting Insider Notes. T.J. Walker has the latest on Mo Bamba, Bam Adebayo, Cam Johnson and others in this weekly feature (premium).
RECRUITING: Four-star in-state DE looks back on Kentucky, Michigan trips. CatsIllustrated.com touched base with Louisville (Ky.) Trinity defensive lineman Stephen Herron after his big weekend of travel (premium).
RECRUITING: Raiding the state: Ohio. Mike Farrell of Rivals.com takes a look at the programs that have done the best job of raiding Ohio for talent in recent years.
Top discussion threads
House of Blue: A front line with Bam next year
House of Blue: Coach Cal visits Romeo Langford
House of Blue: Duke makes a move with Mark Smith
House of Blue: ESPN on UK's quarterback play
House of Blue: Vanderbilt signs with UK
House of Blue: UK doesn't make Blaine Scott's top five
Rupp Rafters: State legislature on the Yum! deal
Top fan posts
"Earlier this week, the NCAA adopted 6 new rules for college football. I can see how Kentucky could really benefit from two of the rules. One creates an early signing period in December, and the other allows teams to add a 10th assistant coach.
Given the way this team recruits, I could see the early signing period really benefiting this staff. We could lock some players down before some of the Alabama's of the world can get in late and steal them away.The extra coach could allow us to open up another recruiting area, and or deal with an obvious deficiency on our team like special team."
Link: Perrin75 on rule changes
"Next years team with Bamba is indeed ridiculously deep. It's why getting great potential starts/bench players like Cam Johnson with experience will really help as well as retaining guys like Gabriel and SKJ. Never hurts to have great talent AND experience (two 5 stars and a talented transfer)."
Content from around the web
BASEBALL: Battle-tested UK players ready for challenging week of top-10 foes
BASKETBALL: Alabama's Braxton Key will declare for draft, won't hire agent
BASKETBALL: Jarred Vanderbilt has another doctor's visit upcoming, no word on X-Ray results
BASKETBALL: Ar'mond Davis might remain with the Tide after all
More content from around the web
FOOTBALL: UK's Drake Jackson ready to join buddies Young and Daniel on the field
FOOTBALL: Benny Snell is never out of Eddie Gran's sight
BASKETBALL: Statement from South Carolina's P.J. Dozier on his NBA decision
RECRUITING: College decision not far off for Illinois Mr. Basketball Mark Smith
BASKETBALL: Ex-Cat Noel sees future in Dallas but says he needs to pack on pounds
