SPORTS WEEKLY COMES YOUR WAY THIS EVENING AT 5:05 ON NEWSTALK 95.3 FM/1230 AM WHOP.  TODD HAMILTON’S GUESTS INCLUDE HOPKINSVILLE NATIVE AND OKLAHOMA STATE ASSISTANT BASKETBALL COACH TOMMY WADE.

HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL

BOYS:  RUSSELLVILLE WINS OVER GREENWOOD 68-58, LYON COUNTY OVER CARLISLE COUNTY 62-53, GRAVES COUNTY DEFEATS ST. MARY 62-40, CALLOWAY COUNTY OVER LONE OAK 58-50, MARSHALL COUNTY OVER PADUCAH TILGHMAN 51-47, MAYFIELD DEFEATS BALLARD MEMORIAL 54-47.

GIRLS:  TRIGG COUNTY OVER DAWSON SPRINGS 50-46, GREENWOOD OVER RUSSELLVILLE 58-51, ST. MARY DEFEATS GRAVES COUNTY 46-40, COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN DEFEATS LONE OAK 62-59, BALLARD MEMORIAL OVER MAYFIELD 54-43.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

KENTUCKY FRESHMAN TERRENCE JONES SCORED 35 POINTS IN A RESERVE ROLE AS THE WILDCATS EVENED ITS S-E-C RECORD WITH A 78-54 WIN OVER AUBURN.

JONES 35 BROKE A RECORD SET JUST LAST MONTH BY DORON LAMB WHO SCORED 32 POINTS IN A GAME.  THE WILDCATS HOST L-S-U SATURDAY AFTERNOON, WITH COVERAGE BEGINNING AT 1:30 ON LITE 98.7.

THE TENNESSEE VOLS FELL TO O AND TWO IN THE S-E-C AFTER LOSING TO FLORIDA 81-75 IN OVERTIME.   SCOTTY HOPSON HAD 20 POINTS IN THE LOSS.

TONIGHT’S GAMES:   LOUISVILLE MEETS SEVENTH RANKED VILLANOVA AND VANDERBILT GOES AGAINST GEORGIA.

WESTERN KENTUCKY’S LADY TOPPERS PLAY AT SOUTH ALABAMA.

LOUISVILLE COACH RICK PITINO SAYS JUNIOR FORWARD JARED SWOPSHIRE IS OUT FOR THE SEASON WITH A GROIN INJURY WHICH MAY REQUIRE SURGERY.

SWOPSHIRE HAS NOT PLAYED IN A GAME FOR THE CARDINALS THIS SEASON.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

KENTUCKY COACH JOKER PHILLIPS SAYS IN A STORY IN TODAY’S LEXINGTON HERALD LEADER HE IS OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THE PROGRAM DESPITE A POOR PERFORMANCE IN THE B-B-V-A COMPASS BOWL AGAINST PITTSBURGH.

PHILLIPS SAYS WINS OVER LOUISVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA AND PLAYING AUBURN TO THE WIRE ARE POSITIVES FOR THE FUTURE ALONG WITH A NUMBER OF YOUNG PLAYERS HE EXPECTS TO EMERGE. 

PHILLPS ALSO SAID HE HAD NO GUT FEELING ON WHETHER JUNIORS RANDALL COBB AND DANNY TREVATHAN WOULD RETURN.  UNDERCLASSMEN HAVE UNTIL SATURDAY TO DECLARE FOR THE N-F-L DRAFT.

UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE TIGHT END LUKE STOCKER ACCEPTED AN INVITATION TO PLAY IN THE SENIOR BOWL TUESDAY.

THE BEREA KENTUCKY NATIVE HAD A CAREER HIGH FIVE CATCHES AND A CAREER HIGH 58 YARDS IN THE VOLS LOSS TO NORTH CAROLINA IN THE MUSIC CITY BOWL. 

THE SENIOR BOWL WILL BE PLAYED JANUARY 29^TH IN MOBILE, ALABAMA.

NHL

THE NASHVILLE PREDATORS MOVE THEIR WINNING STREAK TO SIX AFTER A 5-1 WIN OVER THE MINNESOTA WILD AT BRIDGESTONE ARENA.  THE PREDS ARE BACK ON THE ROAD TOMORROW NIGHT AGAINST THE FLORIDA PANTHERS, A GAME YOU CAN HEAR ON NEWSTALK 95.3 FM/1230 AM WHOP AT 6:30.

PREDATORS CAPTAIN SHEA WEBER HAS BEEN NAMED TO THE N-H-L ALL STAR TEAM.  WEBER WILL BE MAKING HIS SECOND ALL STAR GAME APPEARANCE.  THE ALL STAR GAME IS JANUARY 30^TH  IN RALIEGH, NORTH CAROLINA.