“Hello, Everybody… This is Cawood Ledford.” | By JP Miller If you grew up in Kentucky, you didn’t just hear that voice; you trusted it. Cawood didn’t sell hype; he told the truth—fair, honest, and respectful. He believed the game mattered because people mattered. When Kentucky basketball was right, it sounded like him. On the eve of Rick Pitino and Mark Pope meeting in Atlanta, I keep thinking about that standard. Different eras, same expectation: play hard, tell it straight, and honor what came before. Cawood called the last home game of the Pitino era in 1992—a win, fittingly—but what he really passed down wasn’t a score; it was a way of being Kentucky. From Adolph Rupp to Joe B. Hall, from Pitino to Pope, the thread never broke. The uniform changed, but the voice stayed steady. That voice mattered to us at Paul Miller, too. When Paul Miller Ford arrived on Main Street in 1953, we didn’t come to just sell cars; we came to support the community, university, the coaches, the teams...