COLLEGE FOOTBALL

BOWLING GREEN HIGH OFFENSIVE LINEMAN JOE MANLEY MADE HIS COLLEGE DECISION OVER THE WEEKEND.

THE COURIER JOURNAL REPORTS MANLEY COMMITTED TO LOUISVILLE ON SATURDAY. HE BECOMES THE FOURTH COMMITMENT FOR THE CARDS IN THE LAST WEEK, AND THE 12^TH FOR THE 2012 CLASS. SCOUT.COM HAS MANLEY RANKED AS THE NUMBER TWO OFFENSIVE LINEMAN IN THE STATE.

KENTUCKY WIDE RECEIVER LA ROD KING SAYS THE YOUNG RECEIVERS NEED TO RESIST TAKING IT EASY AND CATCH A FEW EXTRA PASSES IN PREPARING FOR THE UPCOMING SEASON. KING SAYS WITH THE WILDCATS HAVING TO REPLACE THE TWO TOP RECEIVERS FROM LAST SEASON, YOUNG PLAYERS NEED TO STEP UP.

KING LAST SEASON CAUGHT 36 PASSES FOR 478 YARDS AND FIVE TOUCHDOWNS, WHICH ARE THE MOST OF ANY RETURNING PLAYER. KENTUCKY OPENS THE SEASON AGAINST WESTERN KENTUCKY SEPTEMBER FIRST AT L-P FIELD IN NASHVILLE.

MEDIA DAYS BEGIN IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL THIS WEEK, WITH THE SUN BELT CONFERENCE BEGINNING ACTIVITIES TODAY. THE SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE HAS ITS FESTIVITIES BEGINNING WEDNESDAY AND THE OHIO VALLEY CONFERENCE HOLDS ITS MEDIA DAY ONE WEEK FROM TODAY.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

LOUISVILLE COACH RICK PITINO SAYS IT WOULD NOT SURPRISE HIM IF GUARD PEYTON SIVA LEFT THE CARDINALS FOR THE N-B-A AFTER THE UPCOMING SEASON.

IN A STORY PUBLISHED SUNDAY BY THE COURIER JOURNAL, PITINO SAYS SIVA IS ONE OF THE TOP FIVE INDIVIDUALS HE HAS COACHED IN HIS 35 YEARS AT THE COLLEGIATE AND PROFESSIONAL LEVELS.

NASCAR

REVIEWS ARE COMING IN FOR THE INAGURAL QUAKER STATE 400 AT KENTUCKY SPEEDWAY AND THE COURIER JOURNAL REPORTS BUSINESSES AROUND THE SPEEDWAY REPORTED MIXED RESULTS.

SOME BUSINESSES DID WELL, OTHERS DID NOT. ONE AREA WHERE OFFICIALS SAY WILL BE MUCH BETTER NEXT YEAR IS PARKING. OFFICIALS SAY A MORE EFFICIENT TRAFFIC AND PARKING PLAN ARE NEEDED BY NEXT YEAR’S RACE.

MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

THE TRADEWATER PIRATES WERE OFF SUNDAY AND WILL NOT PLAY TONIGHT AS WELL. THE PIRATES ARE THREE GAMES BEHIND LEAGUE LEADER FULTON. THE PIRATES HOST MARION IN A FIVE P-M DOUBLEHEADER TUESDAY AT RIVERSIDE PARK IN DAWSON SPRINGS.

ON SUNDAY, MARION AND OWENSBORO SPLIT A DOUBLEHEADER WITH OWENSBORO WINNING GAME ONE 3-0, MARION THE NIGHTCAP 4-3.

THE NASHVILLE SOUNDS CLOSED OUT A HOMESTAND WITH A 9-5 LOSS TO ALBUQUERQUE AT GREER STADIUM. THE SOUNDS OPEN A FOUR GAME SERIES AT THE IOWA CUBS TONIGHT.

THE BOWLING GREEN HOT RODS LOST SUNDAY AT QUAD CITIES 8-4, WITH THE TWO TEAMS TO CONCLUDE THEIR SERIES THIS EVENING.

GOLF

LUCAS CROMEENES WON THE PROFESSIONAL DIVISION OF THE IRVIN COBB GOLF TOURNAMENT IN PADUCAH SUNDAY, FINISHING ONE STROKE AHEAD OF FORMER MURRAY STATE GOLFER CAMERON CARRICO AND KYLE HOSICK.

KODY ALEXANDER HAD THE BEST SCORE OF ALL FINISHERS, NINE UNDER 133 TO WIN THE AMATEUR TITLE BY THREE STROKES OVER TYLER MITCHELL OF CADIZ.

MATTHEW ZAKUTNEY WON THE JUNIOR DIVISION WITH A TWO DAY TOTAL OF TWO OVER 144.