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Welcome to Wildcat Blue Nation, the Kentucky Wildcats news and opinions site brought to you by the FanSided Network. Wildcat Blue Nation is dedicated to providing top-notch Wildcats news, views, and original content. This site also serves as a community for like-minded fans to come together to catch up on the latest news and to discuss their passion.
Meet The Team
Alex Frank
Alex Frank is a contributor to Wildcat Blue Nation covering primarily Kentucky Men's Basketball and Football, and he also dabbles in covering Baseball. He's been covering the Wildcats since Mark Pope came home in April of 2024 and has been working in sports media since his Freshman year at the University of Cincinnati in 2017. Alex's passion for watching games, analying games-- including game-chaning plays, momentum swings, and the small overlooked plays with how they impact the overall game-- is what makes him a fun, reliable source to have conversations with about the Cats. Previously, Alex has written for the Associated Press and Field Level Media and worked as a news producer at ABC6 in Columbus, Ohio. Living in Cincinnati, Alex's family has had Bengals Season Tickets since 1968, and Alex has seen every game since Week 12 of the 2004 Season-- when the Begnals out-slugged the Browns 58-48. In addition to watching and covering sports, Alex enjoys running, lifting weights, and watching reality TV-- especially Survivor and Big Brother.
Drew Holbrook
Drew specializes in Kentucky sports and pop culture coverage as the site expert at Wildcat Blue Nation. With a long history of following Kentucky sports since the Bill Curry and Rick Pitino eras, Drew brings deep knowledge and passion to his writing. When he's not writing, Drew enjoys coaching soccer, playing Persona (3 is the best), and spending time with his family.
Braulio Perez
Braulio Perez is an NCAA Content Director for FanSided, joining Minute Media in 2017 after 2.5 years at the Newark Star-Ledger as a high school sports reporter and 2.5 years at the Lynden Tribune as sports editor. While with the Lynden Tribune, Perez was named the Sports Writer of the Year in 2012 for his division by the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association. At the Star-Ledger, he also assisted in coverage of college football recruiting. Perez's focus has been on college football recruiting, high school sports, the NFL, NCAA and English Premier League. He is also a regular contributor for 247Sports' Cougfan.com.
John Buhler
John Buhler is a FanSided NCAA staff writer. He specializes in covering college football and the NFL on a national level, as well as his hometown Atlanta Braves. Nearly a decade into his writing career at FanSided, he has also written about MLB, NBA, golf, tennis and the Olympics. Buhler is a University of Georgia graduate (2012), but he spent most of his time in Athens enjoying the finer things in life than studying business management. He co-hosts the national college football podcast False Start with his FanSided colleague Cody Williams, and hosts The Blogging Dirty Podcast to hype up his beloved hometown Atlanta Falcons. In his spare time, Buhler loves singing karaoke and dominating in bar trivia.
Corey Long
Corey is a FanSided NCAA staff writer with previous stops at NHL.com and Vox Media. "Champions are made from something they have deep inside them – a desire, a dream, a vision" -- Muhammad Ali
Ericka Brockish
Ericka is a national college sports writer for FanSided, and has been covering football, basketball, and other sports for six years. She is a University of Central Florida graduate with a degree in Journalism and a minor in Sports Business Management.
Jordan Owens
Jordan is a contributor to Wildcat Blue Nation and a lifelong UK fanatic, who has watched every UK game since 1995. A former college athlete, Jordan brings a mix of Fandom and athletic insight that helps makes Wildcat Blue Nation the go to source for all of your UK athletics news.
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Josh Yourish
Josh Yourish is a national college sports writer for FanSided covering football and basketball. Josh is a college football awards voter, FWAA, and USBWAA member, who has been covering both sports for two years. Prior to his current role, Josh spent two years as a sports betting writer for Minute Media, with a specialty in college football and college basketball. He is a graduate of George Mason University and a Pittsburgh native.
@@JYourish3Lane Mills
Lane is FanSided's Wildcat Blue Nation site expert, covering all things Kentucky Wildcats from the perspective of a life-long fan and dedicated analyst. He began covering the blue and white in 2024 with KY Insider. More recently, he wrote for On SI on the Tennessee Titans beat. His first Kentucky game came in the 2011-2012 championship season as a 7-year-old kid, and he hasn't stopped watching since.
Sam Fariss
Sam Fariss is a staff writer for our NCAA team. She attended the University of Oregon (Go Ducks) where she received her Bachelor of Arts in Journalism. Sam has covered college football and other collegiate sports for six years now. Her favorite teams are the Ducks (of course) and the Texas Longhorns because she was raised in Austin.
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