Today's Sports

Tryouts for the Spencer County Middle School cross country team will be July 30 and 31 and Aug. 1 and 2 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the high school track.
Call coach Ricky Smith at 502-594-4252 with questions.

Hottest buzz around baseball at the midsummer break?
Big market teams Phillies and Red Sox are all but dead.
The NL’s leading candidate for a Cy Young has a fastball that clocks somewhere around the president’s approval numbers, 48. But oh my, can R.A. Dickey butterfly hitters with his knuckleball.
Baseball’s best surprise is in Pittsburgh. Leading Cincinnati by a game and St. Louis by two and a half in the NL Central, the Pirates are 11 games over .500 at mid-summer for the first time since you were young, handsome and had lots of hair.

2012 Spencer County High School graduate Tara Sorrels is pictured with Lady Bears softball coaches Gerald Spencer, left, and Jimmy Thompson at the Eighth Region Banquet. Sorrels was named to the Eighth Region Team for her accomplishments on and off the field.  She was the starting pitcher for the Lady Bears this year with 177 strikeouts. Earlier this year, she was named to the 30th District Tournament team and the Eighth Region Tournament team. Sorrels will attend Western Kentucky University this fall, where she plans to continue in sports by playing on the dodgeball team.

As we enter July, it’s a slow month for a lot of sports. Baseball fans like myself have plenty to keep us busy each morning, checking out the boxscores and keeping up with the standings, but we’re several weeks from the kickoff of football season and many sports fans don’t know what to do.