He was 90 years old. I remember his columns in the old print version of The Cats Pause. I'll miss him.
"Longtime University of Kentucky Athletics administrator William Russell Rice, 90, who authored definitive histories of the Wildcats basketball and football programs, died Friday.
Rice spent 20 years — 1967 to 1987 — with UK Athletics, including 18 years as sports information director.
For more than 20 years afterward, he wrote a column for The Cats' Pause, and he wrote several books, such as Adolph Rupp: Kentucky's Basketball Baron, published in 1994, and University of Kentucky Basketball Vault, published in 2008."
http://www.kentucky.com/2015/05/30/3877381_renowned-uk-athletics-historian.html?rh=1
(Not a Tipton article)
"Longtime University of Kentucky Athletics administrator William Russell Rice, 90, who authored definitive histories of the Wildcats basketball and football programs, died Friday.
Rice spent 20 years — 1967 to 1987 — with UK Athletics, including 18 years as sports information director.
For more than 20 years afterward, he wrote a column for The Cats' Pause, and he wrote several books, such as Adolph Rupp: Kentucky's Basketball Baron, published in 1994, and University of Kentucky Basketball Vault, published in 2008."
http://www.kentucky.com/2015/05/30/3877381_renowned-uk-athletics-historian.html?rh=1
(Not a Tipton article)