Today's Sports

A sparkle in college basketball shines through the money now-and-then.
How perfect that freshman-hyped Kentucky would stagger through a season opener and be saved at the end by Opie Taylor?
Jarrod Polson, kid from the heartland who Rupp Arena fans have urged to shooooooooooooooot! every time he showed up the last two seasons, showed up last week.

I saw shades of 1992 Friday night when watching the University of Kentucky basketball team in their season-opening nail-biting victory over Maryland in Brooklyn.

Derrick Jewell is in his first season as a volunteer equipment manager for the College of Charleston’s men’s basketball program.

After thriving all season long on a stifling defense and a grinding running game, the Spencer County Bears who showed up for Friday night’s first round playoff game against visiting Nelson County didn’t even resemble a shadow of their former selves. The Bears who went 7-3 in the regular season would not have lost 56-14 Friday night.