Forget Jay Leno or Conan. Tonight, Saturday and a week from tonight will be Late Night with Calipari.
Kentucky’s next three games all have 9 p.m. (or later) tipoffs on ESPNU (tonight) and ESPN (Saturday and next Tuesday).
Kristin Perry made certain West Carter was going to pull off the upset.
To the tune of 30 points, 18 rebounds and seven blocks, Perry put together a dominating performance as the Lady Comets defeated Ashland 54-46 at Ashland’s James A. Anderson Gymnasium Monday night.
Rowan County’s girls Senior Night was in jeopardy of being spoiled by East Carter, but senior Natasha Kissinger was not about to let that happen.
Kissinger, held to four first-half points, exploded for 20 points after the intermission in the Lady Vikings’ 53-44 victory over the East Carter Monday night at Rowan County High School.
Lewis County coach Joe Hampton didn’t mind waiting three days to host visiting Russell.
Especially since his Lions won. Junior Koty Riley’s 22 points and senior Blake Kilgore’s season-high 21 led Monday’s 70-65 overtime win.
In his one year in the United States, Sebastian Johannson made a name for himself at Raceland Worthington High School as both a fine football player and tremendous track athlete.
The boys' 61st District has produced only one 16th Region champion in the last 20 years.
Who Dat won the Super Bowl? The New Orleans Saints, that's who.
It was Fairview’s fourth game of the week, including three over the past three days, but the Eagles showed no signs of fatigue, cruising past Boyd County 59-44 Saturday night at Boyd County Middle School gymnasium.
Fairview (18-4) finished the week with a 3-1 record, with the loss coming against Ashland on Thursday.
Sophomore Dustin Linthicum is beginning to show what he can do on the basketball court.
Let’s hope the actual game is better than the build-up.
Ashland achieved two objectives with one hard-fought victory.
Wins may be sparse for Boyd County’s boys basketball team, but coach Dave Wooten sees signs of improvement.
A maturing Elliott County team was determined not to wear down this time around.
John Wall raised his arms, waited for the long pass from teammate Eric Bledsoe then rose up for a vicious dunk.
Raceland was the visiting team at Tuesday night’s boys’ basketball game at George Cooke Memorial gymnasium.
Fairview just seemed like the guest.
Edgar Sosa and Jerry Smith made sure Louisville didn’t leave this one up to the officials.
An afternoon team meeting may have put some fire back in the belly of the Ashland Kittens.
“I think it definitely helped,” said senior point guard Chelsea Dietrich. “We played with a lot more intensity.”
Led by a determined Dietrich, the Kittens rolled out to a big halftime lead and defeated Raceland 55-35 Monday night at Anderson gym.
Is it just me, or does the Pro Bowl seem to be the worst of the All-Star type series? I mean, come on, nobody even took a hard hit on Sunday night. They might as well have been playing two-hand touch.
Boyd County has played some of its best basketball of the season recently, but hasn’t put enough together in the second half of those games to notch any victories.
On Monday, the Lions were finally able to put together a solid second-half, but it still it didn’t translate into a win as Boyd County fell to West Carter, 66-54.
Camera phones clicked and aspiring young softball players hung on the speaker’s every word.
Junior forward Victoria Dunlap posted her 19th career double-double with a game-high 19 points and 12 rebounds as the Kentucky women's basketball team won its school-record fifth consecutive Southeastern Conference game with a 69-59 win over Mississippi State Sunday afternoon in Humphrey Coliseum.
The Sports World is in the midst of All-Star madness right now, with the Pro Bowl Sunday, the NBA All-Star Game Sunday, Feb. 14, and the obvious starpower of the Super Bowl sandwiched in between the two.
It wouldn’t be a Morehead State-Austin Peay men’s basketball game without last-second heroics.
Jump into the Wayback Machine with me. We’re going to set the dial for March of 1980 when one of the smallest schools in 16th Region history made a mighty impact.
The basketball doubleheader originally scheduled for Saturday between Morehead State and Austin Peay has been postponed until today.
East Carter has rescheduled Saturday night's postponed girls' basketball game with Russell for Thursday night.
The Ashland-Fairview boys basketball game scheduled for Saturday has been rescheduled for Thursday as part of a girl-boy doubleheader at Fairview High School gym.
LeBron James turned out to be a better good-luck charm than the president for No. 1 Kentucky.
The atmosphere reminded Greenup County coach Tim Fraley of days gone by.
East Carter coach Brandon Baker was worried about a letdown after a spirited win over Ashland on Tuesday night.
George Rogers Clark didn’t get caught looking ahead.
The Cardinals won their eighth straight game and braced for tonight’s scheduled showdown against Scott County with a 92-51 rout over Ashland on Friday night at Norton Gymnasium.
The survivor of one of the more wide-open races in boys 16th Region basketball history will play in the opening game of the 2010 Boys Sweet 16.
Fairview coach Derek Cooksey is not much on comparing teams on paper, but even he had to admit Fairview’s chances of advancing were about 50-50.
Now that Kentucky is 19-1 instead of 20-0, we look at them in an entirely different light.
Watching the Australian Open on TV is not exactly what Julie Ditty had in mind for the year’s first major tennis tournament.
Morehead State, led by junior Kenneth Faried’s 23 points and a season-high 21 rebounds, won its 11th straight game Thursday night, defeating host Tennessee State 65-50 at the Gentry Center. The Eagles improved to 15-6 and 9-1 in the OVC.
Baseball will be back in Central Park on a regular basis this spring and summer.
Russell jumped out to an early lead and was able to withstand a furious fourth-quarter comeback by Lewis County for a 55-45 win Wednesday night at Marvin Meredith Gymnasium.
It’s good to see that the work — and money — poured into the main baseball diamond in Central Park will be put to good use this spring and summer.
Kentucky's return to No. 1 might not last very long.
For one half, Boyd County looked like a team that was ready to avenge its loss to Russell in its first game of the season.
Ashland is not accustomed to being on the wrong side of the turnover margin.
With a state tournament on the brink, Fairview faced a formidable challenge Tuesday night at The Greenhouse at Greenup County High School.
To the surprise of no one, Kentucky is back on top.
Kennedy Womack and David Bush shook off tournament rust with winning performances Sunday in the Bellefonte Country Club Indoor Clay Championships.
Both local tennis players turned away tough opponents in the 16-under age group finals.
I was on my way back from a game Friday night, and I pass a fire engine parked in front of a school bus, thinking something was wrong.
I looked a little closer and saw that it was a Fairview bus.
This is perfect for the Indianapolis Colts: They have Peyton Manning and they're back in the Super Bowl.
Ashland City Commissioners voted Thursday to continue holding both of its monthly meetings at
7 p.m. despite a call by one member for change.
Ashland’s offense was average and the free throw shooting was foul.
But a little defense goes a long way.
East Carter coach Hager Easterling thought his team had plenty of chances to score points, whether they were from the floor or from the free-throw line.
Normally that would bode well for a solid-shooting team that also shoots 67 percent from the free-throw line.
It may have only been the second game back for Greenup County head coach Tim Fraley after his two-week suspension, but it looked like his team hasn’t missed a beat as Greenup County beat Raceland 58-43 Saturday night at the Greenhouse.
Darius Miller had a career-high 18 points and DeMarcus Cousins got his 10th double-double as No. 2 Kentucky coasted by Arkansas 101-70 Saturday.
As a manager, player or coach, Derek Cooksey has been a part of all of Fairview’s five previous Touchstone Energy Boys 16th Region All “A” championships.
Boyd County fared better on the scoreboard than the last meeting against Ashland, but the Tomcats’ swarming and double-teaming defense continued to take a toll Friday night.
Rivalry games aren’t always guaranteed to be pretty.
Well, I totally redeemed myself! After a miserable 0-4 start, I’ve made it back to .500 with a 4-0 week, including the upset pick of the Jets.
The Bellefonte Country Club Indoor Clay Championships are back for year two.
Nothing like a little baseball news that’s not about steroids to give you a warm feeling.
Max Hunter always knew basketball could take him places.
He just never figured it would be Australia.
Twenty-one days later, same ugly result for Ashland.
As long as Elliott County junior Timmy Knipp is sporting a mohawk, just call him the Show Hawk.
Fleming County’s boys basketball team now has the signature victory it had been seeking.
Middle Tennessee junior forward Emily Queen will miss the remainder of the 2009-10 season due to a knee injury.
People wondered how Timmy Knipp would respond as the face of Elliott County’s boys basketball program after the graduation of a high-profile senior class.
Through 18 games, the mega-skilled 6-foot-7 junior with a seemingly endless wingspan is measuring up to even the highest expectations.
Michael Terry, J.D. Adams and Caleb Collins don’t talk about how they play basketball.
The Fairview trio’s games spoke about 120-decibel loud in Monday’s 16th Region All “A” semifinal against Bath County. They combined for 50 points, and the Eagles survived, 60-58, at Elliott County High School.
If Fairview can get production from its triumvirate like it did in the first round of the All “A” Classic Saturday, the Eagles could be cutting down the nets in Morehead in March.
Fairview’s triumverant combined for 61 points as the Eagles enjoyed its highest scoring output of the season in a 82-66 defeat of Menifee County in the first round of the All ‘A’ Classic Saturday at Menifee County High School.
Kenneth Faried scored 22 points and grabbed 15 rebounds to help Morehead State defeat Eastern Illinois 73-51 for its eighth straight win on Saturday.
Russell’s first appearance in the 16th Region All “A’’ Classic produced two nail-biting wins over Raceland on Saturday night.
It’s become obvious — probably painfully obvious to Arizona Diamondback fans — that they won’t be seeing Brandon Webb’s wicked sinkerball much more after this season. At least not with him wearing Sedona red.
Rowan County girls basketball coach Scott Tackett sees a possible rematch in the future.
Up-tempo Ashland found a team from West Virginia that loves to push the ball just as much.
Christmas was three weeks ago, but Lewis County received one more present Friday.
I’m trying to forget last weekend, but some of you may remember how I wrote that I couldn’t screw the NFL playoff picks up too bad since I was focusing on only one week.
Ashland coach Buddy Biggs didn�t know how his team would respond to a 12-day layoff.
Greenup County interim head coach Nathan Sutton challenged his junior big man Trey Williams at halftime to come out and show exactly why he can be a special player.
I attended the Portsmouth Murals baseball banquet for the first time on Wednesday night and came away quite impressed just by the sheer number of baseball dignitaries there.
Morehead State University is poised to make another run at the Ohio Valley Conference championship.
The name fits his style.
The 16th Region All “A” Classic, which has now grown to eight teams, will have the feel of a mini-16th Region Tournament.
East Carter’s boys basketball team is more than a one-man show.
The Raiders drove home the point Tuesday night in a 69-57 victory over Elliott County — the 16th Region’s three-time defending champs.
Dave Wooten tried to contain his emotions.
Fairview showed no signs of a team that hadn’t played in 10 days.
Eric Bledsoe scored a career-high 25 points, Patrick Patterson added 15 and No. 2 Kentucky stayed unbeaten with an 86-75 victory over Florida on Tuesday night.
Ashland’s boys basketball game Tuesday with Rose Hill has been postponed until Feb. 6 at Charles Stewart Gymnasium.
Villanova guard Scottie Reynolds spent 34 minutes letting Louisville bump him, slap him and nudge him up and down the court.
Florida hasn’t played a well-rounded game all season.
Raceland snapped a two-game losing skid by turning in a balanced effort to beat Fairview 59-53 on Monday at home.
Kentucky’s chances of an undefeated season still seem a bit unrealistic to me.
The Monday Morning Point Guard realizes he’s a day late this week. For that, an apology is in order.
As we worked our way through the raucous crowd to our seats in the upper level of the frozen facility, the Bengals had already squandered away one possession and the time ticked on.
When Robert W. Ross left Michigan in 1923 to become an administrator and teacher at Booker T. Washington School, Detroit’s loss became Ashland’s gain.
Along with his contributions as an educator for the next 34 years, Ross went on to have a profound influence on local tennis.
Aaron Pettrey’s college football career ended with a bang.
He hopes there will be more long field goals to come — in the National Football League.
Pettrey returned from knee surgery to kick a 45-yard field goal that helped send Ohio State past Oregon 26-17 in the Rose Bowl on New Year’s Day.
It might have been freezing cold outside, but the East Carter Raiders started the game on fire in their 64-35 rout of Boyd County on Saturday at Boyd County Middle School gymnasium.
The Raiders (10-3) shot nearly 60 percent from the field in the first half, helping them jump out to a cozy 40-14 halftime advantage.
This time, DeMarcus Cousins threw his headband — not his elbows — when he got angry.
There are some ways to tell Menifee County’s Greene brothers apart.
It’s sad to say, but in a column I wrote after Week 2, only six of my 12 predicted playoff teams actually ended up making it there.
The running game wears teams down. The defense changes games.
As we journey ahead into 2010, there’s plenty to look forward to in the anniversary department.
