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A 14-year-old boy who “loved the outdoors” died in an ATV crash near his Kentucky home, family members say. Eric Harper was riding his 4-wheeler uphill Feb. 28 in Blaine when “it came back on him and crushed him ,” his mother, Lisa Harper, said in a Facebook post.

But a few pivotal moments swung the outcome. Kentucky caught a break when a ball that deflected into the backcourt was flung forward through a sea of Tigers arms to Kentucky’s Andrew Carr, who tapped it back out to Otega Oweh for a wide-open 3-pointer. That put Kentucky up nine.

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear wants Canadian leaders to reconsider their retaliatory tariffs on American liquor, including the state’s signature bourbon.

Kentucky is the oldest football program in the SEC. The Wildcats were an inaugural member of the conference in 1932, but their origin story traces all the way back to 1881.