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Today's Sports

  • COLUMN: The state's feel-...

    Western Kentucky University has been struck by an occupier movement. Fans of a Topper team that has won three of four, want interim removed from coach Ray Harper’s job title. The team transformation since Harper took over a month ago is becoming a feel-good story to rival Murray State’s No. 9 ranking and 23-0 streak, and Kentucky’s climb to No. 1.
    Harper’s Hilltoppers have shown new energy, grit and growing confidence not seen before. The coach’s rotation seems to have sent morale soaring, too.

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  • PHOTO: Dancers get ‘elite’...

    Spencer County Elite dancers competed in the Jamfest Dance Competition in Louisville on Saturday at the Kentucky Fair and Expo Center.

    The team won first place in the hip hop and pom divisions. In addition, Spencer County won the Good Sport award for best sportsmanship of the competitors. Pictured are Madison Helm, Kelsey Donovan, Cassidy Goss, Chloe Ray, Destiny McDonald, Morgan Forkey, Marissa Walker, Hallie Helton, Jaynie Heckert, Kylie Baron, Michelle Thomas, Lindsey Bush, Kaylee Waldridge, Lily Smith, Molly Marlow and Megan Walker. Not pictured is Savannah Clark.

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  • Wrestling photos: Spencer County...

    Anderson Co. 72, Spencer Co. 9

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  • Bears score tough win against...

    The Spencer County Bears positioned themselves to get the top draw in the district tournament later this month with last Tuesday’s 51-50 victory over visiting Anderson County. It’s an improbable position for the Bears, 7-13 on the season, but one they earned with a hard-fought win in front of a big crowd.

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  • Lady Bears equal last year’s win...

    The Spencer County Lady Bears equaled last season’s win total with six following a 35-32 victory over Carroll County last Tuesday on the road. The girls are 6-15 on the year and despite the record, Coach Daniel Cox sees some light at the end of the tunnel.

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  • COLUMN: Davis is a marvel, but...

    John Grisham knows and you know every good drama has its defining moments. Sports seasons do, too, and No. 1 ranked Kentucky has had enough already to make a novel.
    • December 3, 2011, via CBS, college basketball discovered a new household word not named Sullinger, Harrison Barnes or whoever Duke’s newest star is. North Carolina’s John Henson rose up from 10 feet to pop an all-but-certain game winner at Rupp Arena. Anthony Davis introduced himself.
    Anthony Who was no more. Henson-Davis became a seismic moment at ESPN.

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  • Bears keep it close with Bullitt...

    On an emotional night at Spencer County High School, the Bears played one of their best games of the season, battling a highly-ranked Bullitt East team the whole game before losing 58-46 in front of a packed house.

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  • Lady Bears pick up one win, one...

    The Spencer County Lady Bears split a pair of games this past week as they move to 5-13 on the season.
    The girls hosted Kentucky Country Day on Monday evening and took a 48-38 victory. On Saturday, the girls traveled to North Oldham where they lost a 43-40 heartbreaker in the closing seconds.

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  • COLUMN: Kentucky celebrates...

    Numero Uno in January:
    Murray State is the lone unbeaten team in the land at 20-0.
    Bellarmine’s defending D-2 national champion Knights are 17-1 and on the road to Southern Indiana and Kentucky Wesleyan.
    And, the Kentucky Wildcats are atop the polls again. A win at Georgia would make John Calipari’s team 6-0 in SEC play for first time in nine seasons.
    How does Number One talk translate at the barbershop in January?
    • Fan buzz. “Shut up and lemme talk about the Cats!”

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  • Kentucky Afield Outdoors: Eagle...

    The bow of the CQ Princess barely cleared the no-wake zone at Kenlake State Resort Park Marina when Lake Barkley State Park Naturalist Mary Schmidt spotted them.
    “There are two juvenile eagles to our right,” she announced over a microphone on the second deck of the excursion yacht. The mottled brown plumage of the birds showed their youth as bald eagles don’t develop that familiar white head until roughly age 5.

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