Wide receiver Keenan Burton has been named to the 2007 Southeastern Conference Football Community Service Team.
A senior from Louisville, Burton has been active in the ?Cats That Care? service program. He has made numerous speaking engagements and other service events at elementary, middle, and high schools during his career. He also has been a frequent visitor to the Kentucky Children?s Hospital.
Burton was a guest speaker at the 100 Black Men Convention, at which he addressed more than 3,000 middle school students on the importance of working hard in school. He also was a guest speaker at the Fellowship of Christian Athletes Super Bowl party for middle school and high school students.
In honor of his selection, Burton was featured during last Saturday?s Lincoln Financial Sports telecast of the UK-Mississippi State game.
McClinton Out With Cracked Scapula: Junior free safety Marcus McClinton will miss the final three games of the regular season because of a cracked scapula (shoulder blade) incurred during Saturday?s game vs. Mississippi State, Coach Rich Brooks announced Tuesday.
McClinton has 27 tackles on the season, along with one interception and two pass breakups. He had a season-high of seven tackles in the win over then-No. 9 Louisville and made an acrobatic interception in the victory at Arkansas.
Brooks said it is possible that McClinton could return for a bowl game if the Wildcats advance to post-season play.
Notes on the Vanderbilt Game:
Game time has been set at 2 p.m. Eastern time (1 p.m. Central time in Nashville). The game will be a delay telecast on the Big Blue Sports Network. (Note: a live pay-per-view telecast it is not available because UK already has used its once-per-season pay-per-view exemption for that time slot. A live pay-per-view telecast would require moving the game time to 3:30 p.m. ET, which Vanderbilt chose not to do.) Tickets are sold out
Brooks to be Inducted into University of Oregon Athletics Hall of Fame: Kentucky Coach Rich Brooks, who rebuilt the University of Oregon football program, will be inducted into the University?s Athletics Hall of Fame during ceremonies on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 2-3, in Eugene, Ore.
Brooks took over a struggling program at Oregon in 1977 and eventually built the team into a Pacific-10 Conference power. In 1989, the Ducks won the Independence Bowl, the school?s first bowl trip in 26 years. In 1994, his final season at Oregon, Brooks guided his team to its first undisputed Pac-10 championship in 46 years and its first Rose Bowl appearance in 37 years.
Brooks was the first Oregon coach to take a team to four bowl games and also the first to go to post-season play in back-to-back seasons. He was named the National Coach of the Year for the ?94 season and was Pac-10 Coach of the Year twice during his term there. He also laid the foundation for continued success. His successor, former Brooks assistant Mike Bellotti, has had a winning season in 11 of 12 years since Brooks? departure.
In addition to Brooks? term as head football coach, he also was the school?s director of athletics from 1992-94. In honor of his many accomplishments at Oregon, the football stadium?s playing surface was named Brooks Field in 1995.
Brooks will be formally inducted to the Hall of Fame during a banquet on Friday night and will be introduced at halftime of Saturday?s Oregon-Arizona State game.
