Sports Headlines 7.4.11

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!

MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

A CAPACITY CROWD WAS AT ELMER KELLEY STADIUM IN MADISONVILLE SUNDAY NIGHT TO WATCH THE TRADEWATER PIRATES AND OWENSBORO OILERS.

THE PIRATES FELL TO THE OILERS 5-1 AND FELL THREE AND A HALF GAMES BEHIND LEAGUE LEADER MARION. THE BOBCATS AND FULTON SPLIT A DOUBLEHEADER WITH MARION WINNING THE OPENER 8-6 AND LOSING THE NIGHTCAP 3-2.

TONIGHT IN THE OHIO VALLEY LEAGUE: TRADEWATER PLAYS AT FULTON AND MARION PLAYS AT OWENSBORO.

THE NASHVILLE SOUNDS LOST THE SERIES FINALE AT ROUND ROCK 9-6 SUNDAY. THE SOUNDS OPEN A HOMESTAND WITH THE MEMPHIS REDBIRDS TONIGHT AT GREER STADIUM.

THE BOWLING GREEN HOT RODS LOST THE OPENER TO THE GREAT LAKES LOONS 5-3, WITH THE TWO TEAMS TO PLAY THIS EVENING AT BOWLING GREEN BALLPARK.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

FORMER U-K PLAYER TONY DELK—WHO HAD RECENTLY RESIGNED AS DIRECTOR OF BASKETBALL OPERATIONS FOR THE WILDCATS—HAS LANDED A COACHING POSITION.

THE LAS CRUCES SUN-NEWS REPORTS DELK WAS NAMED AS AN ASSISTANT AT NEW MEXICO STATE. DELK INTERVIEWED FOR THE JOB LAST WEDNESDAY AND WAS HIRED ON SATURDAY.

KENTUCKY’S DARIUS MILLER SAYS HE IS READY TO TAKE ON THE ROLE AS A SIGNIFICANT LEADER FOR THE WILDCATS THIS COMING SEASON.

MILLER TELLS THE COURIER JOURNAL HE IS COMFORTABLE WITH THE ROLE AND SAYS HE CAN’T WAIT FOR THE SEASON TO BEGIN. THE FORMER KENTUCKY MR. BASKETBALL WAS U-K’S FOURTH LEADING SCORER AT ALMOST 11 POINTS A GAME LAST SEASON.

UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE GUARD JORDAN MCRAE IS HOPING TO GIVE VOLS FANS HOPE FOR THE UPCOMING SEASON.

THE RISING SOPHOMORE TELLS THE KNOXVILLE NEWS SENTINEL HE AND THE OTHER PLAYERS WANT FANS TO KNOW “IT’S NOT GONNA BE ONE OF THOSE YEARS.”

FORMER TENNESSEE COACH BRUCE PEARL SAYS MCRAE’S TALENTS WERE OBVIOUS FROM THE START LAST SEASON, BUT HE DID NOT WANT TO RUSH HIM INTO A STARTING ROLE. MCRAE AND TRAE GOLDEN ARE EXPECTED TO BE THE STARTING BACKCOURT THIS SEASON FOR NEW COACH CUONZO MARTIN.

NFL

FORMER KENTUCKY WIDE RECEIVER RANDALL COBB SAYS HE FINDS THE N-F-L LOCKOUT FRUSTRATING.

COBB TELLS A KNOXVILLE TELEVISION STATION HE’S BEEN BUSY TRAINING IN LOS ANGELES, PHOENIX AND FLORIDA. COBB WAS A SECOND ROUND PICK OF THE GREEN BAY PACKERS.

COBB SAYS ONCE HIS CONTRACT IS SIGNED, HE PLANS TO ESTABLISH A COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM FOR HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETES AND AT SOME POINT HE PLANS TO GIVE BACK TO HIS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL PROGRAM IN ALCOA, TENNESSEE.

NHL

THE NASHVILLE PREDATORS MADE A TRADE SUNDAY, SENDING FORWARD MATTHEW LOMBARDI AND DEFENSEMAN CODY FRANSON TO TORONTO FOR DEFENSEMAN BRETT LEBDA AND FORWARD ROBERT SLANEY.

THE TENNESSEAN REPORTS THE MOVES WERE PARTIALLY A SALARY DUMP, ALLOWING THE TEAM TO HAVE SOME FINANCIAL FLEXIBILITY IN THEIR EFFORTS TO RESIGN FREE AGENT DEFENSEMEN SHEA WEBER AND RYAN SUTER, ALONG WITH GOALIE PEKKA RINNE TO LONG TERM DEALS.

GOLF

CALDWELL COUNTY HIGH SENIOR TO BE EMMA TALLEY WILL TEE OFF THURSDAY MORNING AT 9:06 HOPKINSVILLE TIME AT THE U-S WOMEN’S OPEN AT THE BROADMOOR IN COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO.

TALLEY WILL BE PAIRED THE FIRST TWO DAYS WITH CINDY LACROSSE AND LETA LINDLEY. TALLEY HEADS TO COLORADO SPRINGS TODAY.