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Today's Sports

  • Pitino finally ready to deliver...

    Twelve years and 15 days ago Rick Pitino was hired as the men’s basketball coach at the University of Louisville.

    For Cardinals fans everywhere the question wasn’t “When will he lead us to a national championship?” it was, “How many national titles will he lead us to?”

    If you would have told them then that UofL wouldn’t win a championship in any of Pitino’s first 11 seasons (and that he had stayed for 11 seasons, for that matter), you would have likely been laughed at.

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  • Shipley sets his route to Murray

    When it came time to decide which college he wanted to attend, Shelby County senior Zach Shipley was focused on the “F’s” – football, fit, future and fun.

    Those were the primary factors in his decision to attend Murray State University, where he will play football. 

    “It was the best fit,” Shipley said.

    A standout quarterback and defensive back for the Rockets, Shipley was recruited by the Racers to be a slot receiver, a position he played early in his career at SCHS.

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  • 3 golf courses team for new...

    Shelbyville’s three golf courses are teaming up this spring in a new junior venture.

    Clear Creek Golf Center, Shelbyville Country Club and Weissinger Hills Golf Course are all joining forces for a 4-team PGA Junior Golf League.

    “It’s something that should be great for the facilities, great for the juniors and great for the community,” said Derrick Griffitts, the pro at Clear Creek.

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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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  • These birds are well-grounded

    The Bank Swallow, at 5 1/4 inches long, with a 13-inch wide wingspan, is the smallest member of the swallow family. It has a very slim build from head to tail but has a well-defined, distinct breast band, which is emphasized by a white throat.

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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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