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Today's Sports

  • Few seniors but some star power

    Once again Collins this spring will field tennis teams with an abundance of youth.

    The two squads, which begin their respective seasons next week, have only one senior between them. Still, both have experienced players.

     

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    Coach Keith Nethery returns several of his top players from last season, including senior Wil Johnson, juniors Derek Stivers, Luke Noel and John Usher and sophomore Cy Dutton for what should be an improved Titans team.

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  • Unforgettable was incredible

    Incredible. Improbable. Implausible. Incomparable.

    Ever since Tuesday night’s 8thRegion Tournament first-round game between the Collins and South Oldham boys’ basketball teams, which the Dragons won, 85-82, in overtime, I’ve been trying to come up with the proper words to describe it.

    The best answer is probably that there aren’t enough apt terms to do that, or to even do it justice.

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  • 35 years after title Hurt gets...

    Thirty-five years after helping the Shelby County boys’ basketball team to the state championship and 15 years after his former teammates got theirs, Charles Hurt finally got his title ring.

    Hurt, who currently is an assistant coach at Shelby County, was surprised with a state championship ring Friday night before the Rockets’ regular-season finale against Gallatin County.

    “It was a surprise to say the least,” said Hurt, a 1979 Kentucky All-Star and a former standout at the University of Kentucky. “It was great.”

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  • A gift that means life

    When University of Kentucky men’s basketball coach John Calipari speaks, Big Blue Nation listens.

    But more than his rants and ruminations on Nerlens Noel, Kyle Wiltjer, Archie Goodwin and Alex Poythress, there is one thing in particular that I hope BBN is hearing and paying attention to these days, it’s Cal’s radio commercial about organ donation.

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  • Super Bowl veteran talks about...

    Last summer when the 2012 National Football League schedules were released, one resident of Shelbyville was positive that we would see brothers coaching against each other in a Super Bowl.

    And Buddy Ryan was right. He just had the brothers wrong.

    “When the schedule came out, I really though the Ryan brothers were going to be playing each other,” he said on Thursday morning from a farm off Scott Station Road.

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  • My memory of George Cottrell

     

    My first impression of George Cottrell will also be my lasting memory of him.

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  • Will he Take Charge of Kentucky...

    LOUISVILLE - If the second time is going to be the charm for Shelby County resident Jon Court in the Kentucky Derby, then he’ll have to do something no jockey has ever done in the 139-year history of the race – win from the 17th postposition.

    Horses that have started from the 17-hole are 0-for-the Run for the Roses.

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  • Coloring our world

    At first glance the male Yellow Warbler is the only bird in America that has an all-yellow appearance.

    But closer scrutiny reveals a slight greenish tinge to its back wings and tail as well as a red streaked breast. The female is similar, without the red streaks, and they both have black beaks and short tails.

    After wintering from southern Mexico to Peru and east to Guiana and Brazil, these birds arrive in Kentucky in late April and become common summer residents throughout the commonwealth, except in the higher elevations of the Cumberland Mountains.

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  • Lesser Scaup dives deep for its...

    The Lesser Scaup is a diving ducks, which means that it does not feed on or near the surface of the water, as do those species of ducks called dabblers.

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  • Downy Woodpecker is the most...

    The Downy Woodpecker is the smallest, most numerous, most widespread and tamest of all woodpeckers and is a year-round resident of our commonwealth.

    Sexes are similar except the male has a red spot on the back of the head, which is lacking in the female.

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