HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL

JUST ONE MONTH BEFORE THE START OF THE SEASON, TRIGG COUNTY WILL BE LOOKING FOR A NEW FOOTBALL COACH.

THE KENTUCKY NEW ERA REPORTED TUESDAY WILDCATS COACH SHANNON BURCHAM WAS NAMED AS THE NEW PRINCIPAL AT TRIGG COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL. BURCHAM HAS SPENT THE LAST FOUR SEASONS AS HEAD COACH AT TRIGG COUNTY.

BOWLING GREEN WILL AGAIN HOST THE KENTUCKY HIGH SCHOOL STATE FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS AND THE GIRLS STATE BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT.

THE BOWLING GREEN DAILY NEWS REPORTED TUESDAY COMMISSIONER JULIAN TACKETT WILL MAKE AN OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT ONCE CORPORATE SPONSORS ARE SOLIDIFIED. THAT’S EXPECTED TO TAKE PLACE IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

KENTUCKY’S JON HOOD WILL UNDERGO SURGERY AFTER TEARING THE A-C-L IN HIS RIGHT KNEE IN A PICK UP BASKETBALL GAME MONDAY EVENING.

COACH JOHN CALIPARI SAYS HOOD WILL HAVE SURGERY ONCE SWELLING SUBSIDES. THERE IS NO TIMETABLE FOR HOOD’S RETURN. THE FORMER MADISONVILLE NORTH HOPKINS PRODUCT PLAYED IN 33 GAMES FOR THE WILDCATS LAST SEASON.

SPORTS ILLUSTRATED REPORTS FORMER KENTUCKY COACH BILLY GILLISPIE LOST AS MUCH AS TWO POINT THREE MILLION DOLLARS IN A PONZI SCHEME INVOLVING SEVERAL PROMINENT CURRENT AND FORMER COLLEGE COACHES.

GILLISPIE—NOW AT TEXAS TECH--ALONG WITH FORMER ARIZONA COACH LUTE OLSON, BAYLOR’S SCOTT DREW AND GONZAGA’S MARK FEW ARE BELIEVED TO HAVE LOST INVESTMENTS OF OVER SEVEN POINT EIGHT MILLION DOLLARS TO LATE HOUSTON BUSINESSMAN J. DAVID SALINAS, WHO COMMITTED SUICIDE SUNDAY.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

THE SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE BEGINS ITS MEDIA DAYS TODAY IN BIRMINGHAM.

BEFORE THE FOOTBALL COACHES TALK ABOUT THE UPCOMING SEASON, COMMISSIONER MIKE SLIVE SPOKE WITH THE MEDIA TUESDAY. THE TENNESSEAN REPORTS SLIVE TALKED ON A NUMBER OF TOPICS, SAYING HE THINKS THERE WILL BE CHANGES WITH THE NC-AA.

SLIVE SAYS HE WANTS TO SEE QUICKER INVESTIGATIONS DONE BY THE NC-AA AND SUPPORTS BEEFING UP THE VALUE OF SCHOLARSHIPS, BUT STOPPED SHORT OF PAYING PLAYERS.

SLIVE ALSO SAYS THE CONFERENCE WILL LOOK AT MAKING CHANGES IN ITS TELEVISION CONTRACT AND SAYS EXPANSION IN THE LEAGUE IS POSSIBLE IN THE FUTURE, BUT NOTHING IS IN THE WORKS.

NHL

THE NASHVILLE PREDATORS ARE CONTINUING TO WORK OUT A DEAL WITH CAPTAIN SHEA WEBER.

THE TENNESSEAN SAYS WEBER’S AGENT TELLS THEM HE WANTS TO CONTINUE TO PLAY WITH THE PREDATORS, BUT IT APPEARS A NEW CONTRACT WILL NOT BE WORKED OUT THIS WEEK.

THE DEADLINE FOR A NEW DEAL IS AUGUST SECOND AND IF THAT IS NOT REACHED BY THEN, WEBER WILL GO TO SALARY ARBITRATION.

GOLF

PRINCETON’S EMMA TALLEY FIRED A SECOND ROUND 71 TUESDAY AND FINISHED IN A THREE WAY TIE FOR FOURTH PLACE AT THE U-S-G-A’S U-S GIRLS JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIP AT OLYMPIA FIELDS COUNTRY CLUB OUTSIDE CHICAGO.

ONLY ONE PLAYER FINISHED UNDER PAR IN THE TWO DAYS OF STROKE PLAY. THE MATCH PLAY PORTION BEGINS TODAY WITH TALLEY FACING ANDREA UNSON OF THE PHILLIPINES JUST AFTER NOON.

HOPKINSVILLE HIGH’S DAYTON JONES WON AGAIN ON THE PEPSI TOUR TUESDAY AT PICADOME GOLF CLUB IN LEXINGTON. JONES 82 WAS GOOD FOR A ONE STROKE VICTORY IN THE BOYS 17-18 DIVISION.

MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

THE TRADEWATER PIRATES TOOK A PAIR OF GAMES FROM MARION LAST NIGHT 4-3 AND 3-2. OWENSBORO IS THE NEW LEADER IN THE OHIO VALLEY LEAGUE AFTER A 13-2 VICTORY OVER FULTON. FULTON IS A HALF GAME BACK OF THE OILERS, MARION A GAME AND A HALF BACK, WITH TRADEWATER TWO GAMES BACK.

TRADEWATER CONTINUES ITS HOMESTAND AGAINST MARION TONIGHT, WHILE OWENSBORO HOSTS FULTON.

THE NASHVILLE SOUNDS WIN THEIR SECOND STRAIGHT GAME OVER THE IOWA CUBS 4-3, WITH GAME THREE TONIGHT IN DES MOINES.

THE BOWLING GREEN HOT RODS ARE BACK IN ACTION THIS EVENING FOLLOWING AN OFF DAY HOSTING THE BURLINGTON BEES AT BOWLING GREEN BALLPARK.