Welcome to CatsIllustrated.com

Welcome, everyone, to CatsIllustrated.com, your go-to site for University of Kentucky basketball, football and recruiting news on the Rivals.com network.

CatsIllustrated.com will continue to provide in-depth UK sports news and feature stories while providing the largest, liveliest message-board community for Wildcat fans on the Internet.

If you enjoyed subscribing to our Kentucky Rivals site yesterday, you'll enjoy it for the days to come.

Our site has a new name and will have some new staff members, but nothing else about your user experience will change. There will still be comprehensive coverage of UK news and recruiting and message boards to discuss that news in a format you know.

Our message-board community remains intact, and CatsIllustrated.com will remain a daily destination for thousands of Kentucky fans to discuss the Big Blue.

Our premium member board, House of Blue, will continue as it always has, providing a more intimate forum for true-blue fans who subscribe to our site. It will still include news and opinion information from our staff members.

Our popular free message-board forums, like Rupp Rafters, Wildcat Lair and the Paddock, are unaltered and remain free to any UK fan, just as they have been, and just as they were last Sunday when a record thousands came to our site at once to discuss the Cats' historic basketball victory. We look forward to more vibrant discussion on CatsIllustrated.com, starting this weekend as UK plays in the Final Four.

We are excited about the future and expect our site to only get better in the coming weeks and months. Our paid subscribers are valued more than they know. If you were a Rivals.com subscriber to the site formerly known as CatsIllustrated.com, you don't need to take any action to continue your membership with CatsIllustrated.com. Your subscription with Rivals carries over seamlessly. We look forward to UK fans remaining a part of our community and relying on us to provide them with all the news related to their beloved Wildcats.

Our recruiting editor, Steve Jones, remains on staff and will continue to provide basketball and football recruiting updates -- both of high quality and in high quantity. Steve is in Houston this weekend, covering the Final Four, and the staff at Rivals.com and Yahoo! Sports will supplement his coverage.

We are excited about staff additions that are in the works and will be announced very soon.

Beyond our local content, CatsIllustrated.com subscribers will continue to enjoy the benefits of the Rivals.com network, including its comprehensive recruiting databases and college sports stories from around our national network.

Rivals.com is grateful for the partnership it held with The Cats' Pause for many years and is thankful for the work provided by Matt May, Darrell Bird and others during that time. We wish TCP and its employees nothing but the best. For more information on TCP go to www.CatsIllustrated.com

As for now, welcome again to CatsIllustrated.com