July 12, 1999

Players in Summer School, Workouts: The eight-week summer schoolsession began June 10. The majority of the players are in Lexingtonduring the eight-week session in order to work out in the weight room,work summer jobs, and/or take summer school classes. The eight-weekperiod ends on August 5.

Kentucky Football Calendar:

July 27-29      SEC Football Media Days in Birmingham; Coach Hal Mumme,                Jeff Snedegar, and Anthony White represent UK on                Thursday, July 29 Sun.  Aug. 8    Freshmen report Tues. Aug. 10   First freshman practice (morning) Wed.  Aug. 11   Two freshman practices; veterans report Thur. Aug. 12   UK Media Day (morning) Fri.  Aug. 13   Team practices begin Sun.  Aug. 15   Fans' Day Fri.  Aug. 20   Kickoff Luncheon  Sat.  Sept. 4   Louisville at Kentucky 

Commonwealth Stadium Construction Update: The aluminum seatingis approximately 85 percent complete. Wall framing and drywall work onthe suites continues on both ends. Both scoreboards have been installedand the video board is up on the east end of the stadium. Preparationwork has begun for laying asphalt on the lower concourse.

Both ends of Commonwealth Stadium are being enclosed. The project willadd about 10,000 seats, bringing capacity to approximately 68,000. Upto $27.6 million may be spent on the stadium expansion, which isexpected to be ready for the opening of the 1999 season.

Watch the Stadium Construction: Fans may view photographs of thestadium expansion on the internet site www.uky.edu/stadium. A camerahas been mounted in the press box and is pointed toward the west(Nicholasville Road) end zone. Photographs are updated every fiveminutes.

John Soward of UK Computing Services handled the technicaldetails of the stadium camera, with assistance provided by Russ Pear, UKAssistant Athletics Director for Facilities, and Chuck Ham of the UKPublic Relations Office.