http://www.kentucky.com/232/index.xml News, sports, and entertainment from Kentucky.com en-us Copyright 2008 Kentucky.com SPORTS UPDATE 60 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:11:52 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's Workbench webmaster@kentucky.com http://www.kentucky.com/232/story/551845.html http://www.kentucky.com/232/story/551845.html Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:05 EDT
Keeneland next day

First post 1:10 p.m.

(Horses listed in post - position order

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The University of Kentucky unveiled new men's basketball uniforms Friday that include a nod to the state's horse racing history as well as a salute to "Mr. Wildcat" Bill Keightley.

The Wildcats will don the new duds for the first time Friday night during the team's annual Big Blue Madness celebration in Rupp Arena.

Inspired in part by the jockey silks that adorned Kentucky legends on the racetrack, the Wildcats' new shorts and jerseys feature elements of a royal blue and white checkerboard pattern.

In addition, on Kentucky's white uniforms, a blue and white checkerboard swatch is centered on the waistband of their shorts and features eight individual "boxes." Emblazoned in seven of the eight squares are the numbers '48, '49, '51, '58, '78, '96 and '98, representing championship seasons for the Wildcats. The "empty" eighth quadrant, the school said, "serves as a reminder of the school's legacy and motivation for the current Wildcats to ensure another year is soon inscribed within it." ]]> http://www.kentucky.com/232/story/551278.html http://www.kentucky.com/232/story/551278.html Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:16 EDT http://www.kentucky.com/232/story/551448.html http://www.kentucky.com/232/story/551448.html Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:22 EDT
Rockcastle County native Brad Durham will make his first career start Saturday when Kentucky hosts South Carolina.

Durham was one of only six true freshman who saw game action in 2007. He played well in relief of redshirt freshman Billy Joe Murphy last week at Alabama, which earned him the start at right tackle.

Durham spoke this week about the opportunity to start:

Q: What was it like getting thrown into action at Alabama? ]]> http://www.kentucky.com/232/story/551447.html http://www.kentucky.com/232/story/551447.html Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:23 EDT
Kentucky redshirt freshman Matt Lentz will get the start at strong safety for Saturday's game against South Carolina after not starting against Alabama because of an ankle injury.

Junior Ashton Cobb will be available to play as well.

Masthay semifinalistfor Draddy Trophy

Kentucky senior punter/kicker Tim Masthay is a semifinalist for the Draddy Trophy, signifying the top scholar-athlete in the nation, as announced by the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame. ]]> http://www.kentucky.com/232/story/551446.html http://www.kentucky.com/232/story/551446.html Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:23 EDT
Matchups for Saturday's South Carolina at Kentucky football game:

Quarterbacks

Chris Smelley has emerged from a three-player logjam to seize control of the quarterback job for South Carolina. Smelley had the best game of his career last week against Mississippi, throwing for 327 yards and three touchdowns. Smelley can be mistake-prone, however, as he's thrown seven interceptions on the season. UK quarterback Mike Hartline continues to efficiently manage the Kentucky offense.

Advantage: South Carolina ]]> http://www.kentucky.com/232/story/551445.html http://www.kentucky.com/232/story/551445.html Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:19 EDT
Not much has separated South Carolina's and Kentucky's football programs the past 31/2 seasons. The Gamecocks have won 25 games, the Wildcats 23. Both have made two bowl appearances.

The most glaring difference is the head-to-head competition. South Carolina's eight-game winning streak in the series has been well-documented, but the Gamecocks haven't totally outclassed the Cats the way other Southeastern Conference teams have over the years.

South Carolina has gained control in recent years thanks in large part to UK's inability to hold on to the ball.

Back in 2005, five UK turnovers paved the way to a South Carolina 44-16 runaway. The Wildcats fumbled on three straight possessions to turn a 10-10 halftime score into a route. ]]> http://www.kentucky.com/232/story/551439.html http://www.kentucky.com/232/story/551439.html Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:15 EDT
This day last year: On-track attendance, 9,503; on-track betting, $923,395; total betting including simulcast, $5,893,129.

Coming up: A field of nine is set to go to post in the $100,000 Buffalo Trace Franklin County Stakes for fillies and mares 3 years old and up at 5˝ furlongs on the turf. Game N Laughin', who was claimed for $18,000 at Arlington Park in June, is coming off a win over five furlongs on the turf at Remington Park on Sept. 28.

Final furlong
. Co-owner/trainer/breeder John Glenney said Transduction Gold remains on track to try for a repeat victory in the Grade III Sycamore to be run Oct. 18. “Jon Court is going to come in from California to ride him,” Glenney said.
. Trainer Wayne Catalano sent out Grade II Pat O'Brien Handicap winner Lewis Michael — a full brother to champion Dreaming of Anna — for a 5-furlong work in 1:00. Lewis Michael is being pointed to the Oct. 25 Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile at Santa Anita. Also working for Catalano was Kentucky Cup Juvenile Fillies winner Sugar Mom, who worked 5 furlongs in :59.80.

ALICIA WINCZE]]> http://www.kentucky.com/232/story/551414.html http://www.kentucky.com/232/story/551414.html Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:56 EDT http://www.kentucky.com/232/story/550988.html http://www.kentucky.com/232/story/550988.html Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:35 EDT
The last four times Tates Creek and Paul Dunbar have played, the games have ended with one team or the other winning 1-0.

In the regular-season finale for both teams on Thursday night, neither team could even manage to score that one goal.

Instead, they ended in a 0-0 tie at Paul Dunbar on the 20th-ranked Bulldogs' senior night.

In some ways, that score felt like a winning one to Tates Creek Coach Bo Lankster, considering Dunbar had outscored its last six in-state opponents 30-0. ]]> http://www.kentucky.com/232/story/550963.html http://www.kentucky.com/232/story/550963.html Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:59 EDT
BOWLING GREEN . Neither rain nor lightning nor fog can keep the Glasgow Scotties from their appointed rounds.

Glasgow completed its run to the Leachman KHSAA Girls' State Golf Tournament title Thursday, knocking off defending champion West Jessamine 664-669 at Bowling Green Country Club. Scott County took third at 673.

The two-day format was extended by a day because of delays for lightning (Tuesday) and rain (Wednesday). Thursday's play was delayed 35 minutes because of fog.

While West Jessamine made the team finish interesting, cutting a 12-stroke gap to five, there was no individual drama. Just excellence over a 5,689-yard, par-72 layout. ]]> http://www.kentucky.com/232/story/550909.html http://www.kentucky.com/232/story/550909.html Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:39 EDT
The promise IEAH Stables saw in Laragh months ago was on full display Thursday as the 2-year-old filly strolled to a front-running 43/4-length upset victory in the $150,000 JPMorgan Chase Jessamine Stakes at Keeneland before a crowd of 9,007.

IEAH Stables purchased Laragh privately from Mike Ryan shortly after the daughter of Tapit broke her maiden at Woodbine on Aug. 9.

Although Laragh came home fifth in her stakes debut, the Grade III Natalma Stakes at Woodbine, she stepped up emphatically in the 11.16-mile turf test Thursday as the fifth choice in the betting, leading every point of call to earn a possible trip to the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf on Oct. 24.

"Her last race she caught a very soft turf up in Canada and it's very hard to win at Woodbine under those conditions," said trainer John Terranova, who took over care of Laragh from Mark Casse. "Mark did a hell of a job developing her in Canada and we were just pleased to get her and anxious to see what she could do." ]]> http://www.kentucky.com/232/story/550905.html http://www.kentucky.com/232/story/550905.html Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:50 EDT
Kentucky expects 12 prospects to attend its Big Blue Madness on Friday night, Coach Billy Gillispie said on Thursday. Of those, three will be making official recruiting visits, including top-30 national prospect Daniel Orton of Oklahoma City.

The objective will not be to show the prospects how well UK plays basketball.

"It will be very, very, very, very bad basketball," Gillispie told the Lexington Rotary Club. "But it should be a lot of fun."

Showing how much Kentuckians love basketball is the point of Madness, Gillispie said. That love is what the UK coach hopes makes a winning impression on the prospects. ]]> http://www.kentucky.com/232/story/550875.html http://www.kentucky.com/232/story/550875.html Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:28 EDT
Lexington Christian Academy Coach Paul Rains remembers when Ray Graham and Mike Meighan were his "two biggest nemeses" in football.

When Rains was at Montgomery County in the mid-1990s, his Indians regularly knocked heads with Graham's Harrison County Thorobreds. After Rains moved to Madison Central, one of his main rivals was Meighan's Paul Dunbar Bulldogs.

"I won't even mention some of the thoughts I used to have about them on Friday night," Rains said with a laugh. "If you'd told me 10 years ago that one day we'd all be coaching together at Lexington Christian, and we'd be a Class A state power, well, you couldn't make up a movie like that."

Meighan, who was head coach at Dunbar for 11 years before retiring after the 2000 season, joined LCA's staff three years ago. "When Paul was at Madison Central, we butted heads a lot," Meighan said. "But this is not the same Paul Rains I coached against. He's become a new person. I'm here because this is where I was needed. It's a growing program that's teaching the right things to kids." ]]> http://www.kentucky.com/232/story/550731.html http://www.kentucky.com/232/story/550731.html Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:59 EDT
Upward of 20,000 are expected to again fill Rupp Arena on Friday night for the exuberant and peculiar Kentucky basketball ritual known as Big Blue Madness.

Yet the fan slated to hold the best seat in the house, right there among the ink-stained wretches and the blow-dried TV crowd on press row, is a woman who lives among the Hurryin' Hoosiers just south of Indianapolis.

What in the name of Wildcat Wally Clark is going on?

It was June 19 when Greenwood, Indiana's Melissa Stenberg got an e-mail message from the marketing department of the University of Kentucky Athletics Association. ]]> http://www.kentucky.com/232/story/550672.html http://www.kentucky.com/232/story/550672.html Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:59 EDT
The Kentucky football team has looked like the Monsters of the Midway from the second quarter on this season.

The Wildcats have outscored their opponents 41-6 in the second quarter, 24-7 in the third and 58-5 in the fourth.

Now if they could only get that first quarter squared away. Kentucky has been painfully slow out of the box in the first five games, getting outscored 21-17 in the opening period.

The Cats haven't scored on their opening drive all season, and their only first-quarter touchdowns came against Norfolk State and Middle Tennessee State. UK has generated only 11 first-quarter first downs in five games. The players and the coaches have recognized and addressed the slow starts. ]]> http://www.kentucky.com/232/story/550889.html http://www.kentucky.com/232/story/550889.html Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:49 EDT http://www.kentucky.com/232/story/550912.html http://www.kentucky.com/232/story/550912.html Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:10 EDT http://www.kentucky.com/232/story/550903.html http://www.kentucky.com/232/story/550903.html Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:59 EDT
Marshall County was something of a surprise when it won the boys' state golf championship last year, with Marshals sophomore Travis Thompson taking the individual title, too.

Nobody's overlooking Marshall County this year, though. The Marshals and perennial power St. Xavier are considered the favorites in the 36-hole competition that begins Friday and ends Saturday at Bowling Green Country Club.

Marshall County, led by senior Patrick Newcomb's 65, had the lowest team score (291) in regional play across the state.

St. X, which has won 16 state titles, is led by sophomore star Justin Thomas. ]]> http://www.kentucky.com/232/story/550833.html http://www.kentucky.com/232/story/550833.html Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:09 EDT
Keeneland next day

First post 1:10 p.m.

(Horses listed in post - position order

with saddle - cloth number) ]]>