{"id":911386,"date":"2026-06-09T05:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/kentucky-dl-nic-smith-dies-at-age-20-no-foul-play-suspected-espn\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T05:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:12:12","slug":"kentucky-dl-nic-smith-dies-at-age-20-no-foul-play-suspected-espn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/kentucky-dl-nic-smith-dies-at-age-20-no-foul-play-suspected-espn\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky DL Nic Smith dies at age 20; no foul play suspected &#8211; ESPN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Football Kentucky DL Nic Smith dies at age 20; no foul play suspected\u00a0\u00a0ESPNUK Football player Nic \u2018Happy\u2019 Smith dies\u00a0\u00a0WKYTNicholas Smith: 2006-2026\u00a0\u00a0UK AthleticsKentucky football defensive lineman Nic \u2018Happy\u2019 Smith has died\u00a0\u00a0Lexington Herald LeaderKentucky DL Nicholas &#8216;Happy&#8217; Smith dies at 20 years old\u00a0\u00a0Yahoo Sports&#8230;  <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMitAFBVV95cUxNUkVaMnFRVGdKY0hFVWd2bUpsTHFjclFKdFAzcHN3WkF1aUQ0NEt0YWVEZl9zQ29wUEJXTkVRc01jZzBBQmVPV2pITTgyXy1QRnFRODJWdTFfU0Z6dmJYSG5YZGhnWkRiT0h6UHVfWTBKVEQ5Q2h1dG5RTEk5VERzNFBfQ3RPRzBaQkgxc282azJfOHJOMDJzWlRRRS10ZUNhdi1JQTlBZXlUNzhaWm5QbEljVF8?oc=5\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a> Maribel Ramage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kentucky DL Nic Smith dies at age 20; no foul play suspected\u00a0\u00a0ESPNUK Football player Nic \u2018Happy\u2019 Smith dies\u00a0\u00a0WKYTNicholas Smith: 2006-2026\u00a0\u00a0UK AthleticsKentucky football defensive lineman Nic \u2018Happy\u2019 Smith has died\u00a0\u00a0Lexington Herald LeaderKentucky DL Nicholas &#8216;Happy&#8217; Smith dies at 20 years old\u00a0\u00a0Yahoo Sports&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":911387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3790,22784,952],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-911386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","category-kentucky","category-smith"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/911387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}