University of Kentucky Athletics spokesman ducks SPJ event after barring student from media event

DeWayne Peevy continues to make the wrong kind of news for the University of Kentucky media relations department. Peevy, the media relations director for Kentucky basketball cancelled an appointment to talk with a panel discussion of the Society of Professional Journalists about his recent actions. Peevy barred a stu

dent reporter from covering a Kentucky basketball event as punishment for speaking with two walk-on basketball players without permission. Read the Lexington Herald-Leader’s latest piece on Peevy here.