SPORTS WEEKLY IS ON THE AIR TONIGHT AT 5:05 ON NEWSTALK 95.3 FM/1230 AM WHOP.  TODD HAMILTON’S GUESTS WILL INCLUDE FORMER WESTERN KENTUCKY FOOTBALL COACH JACK HARBAUGH, CHRISTIAN COUNTY GIRLS BASKETBALL COACH ANTHONY HICKEY AND CHRISTIAN COUNTY BOYS COACH KERRY STOVALL.

HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL

BOYS:  CHRISTIAN COUNTY MADE 15 THREE POINT GOALS AND BUILT UP A 27 POINT HALFTIME LEAD IN DOWNING BOWLING GREEN 95-66 AT COLONEL GYM.  ANTHONY HICKEY LED THE COLONELS WITH 28 POINTS, DONOVAN KATES ADDED 20.  BOWLING GREEN WAS LED BY LOUISVILLE SIGNEE CHANE BEHANAN WITH 26 POINTS.  

THE COLONELS HAVE NOW WON FOUR GAMES IN A ROW IN IMPROVING TO 9-6 AND WILL PLAY BOYLE COUNTY IN THE OPENING ROUND OF THE TOYOTA CLASSIC AT SCOTT COUNTY THURSDAY NIGHT.

ELSEWHERE:  MADISONVILLE DEFEATED HOPKINS CENTRAL 78-58, APOLLO OVER  WEBSTER COUNTY 74-54, DAVIESS COUNTY EDGES HENDERSON COUNTY 58-54, MUHLENBERG COUNTY DEFEATS OHIO COUNTY 67-57, OWENSBORO GOES TO OVERTIME TO BEAT GRAYSON COUNTY 89-85, LOGAN COUNTY DEFEATS ALLEN COUNTY SCOTTSVILLE 77-69, PADUCAH TILGHMAN BEATS VIENNA, IL IN THE SUPERMAN CLASSIC 60-32, GREENWOOD OVER FRANKLIN SIMPSON 67-55.

2^ND REGION ALL A:  CALDWELL COUNTY OVER DAWSON SPRINGS 61-52, LIVINGSTON CENTRAL DEFEATS TRIGG COUNTY 73-65 AND LYON COUNTY OVER CRITTENDEN COUNTY 54-43.

3^RD REGION ALL A:  EDMONSON COUNTY EDGES HANCOCK COUNTY 35-33, OWENSBORO CATHOLIC OVER BUTLER COUNTY 64-44.

GIRLS:  MADISONVILLE DEFEATS HOPKINS CENTRAL 81-44, LOGAN COUNTY OVER ALLEN COUNTY SCOTTSVILLE 74-56, GREENWOOD DEFEATS FRANKLIN SIMPSON 62-55, CALLOWAY COUNTY OVER GRAVES COUNTY 75-49, GRAYSON COUNTY OVER OWENSBORO 56-39, UNION COUNTY WINS AGAINST DAVIESS COUNTY 64-33, SOUTH WARREN EDGES WARREN CENTRAL 35-32.

TONIGHT’S GAMES:  HOPKINSVILLE’S BOYS AND GIRLS PLAY A 8^TH DISTRICT DOUBLEHEADER AT FORT CAMPBELL, WITH THE GIRLS GAME BEGINNING AT SIX P-M.

1^ST REGION ALL A BOYS ACTION HAS MAYFIELD AGAINST ST. MARY AND FULTON CITY MEETS HEATH.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

KENTUCKY TRAILED BY AS MANY AS 20 POINTS AND FOUGHT BACK, BUT FELL SHORT AT ALABAMA LOSING 68-66.  TERRENCE JONES LED KENTUCKY WITH 17 POINTS FOLLOWED BY DORON LAMB WITH 16, BRANDON KNIGHT 14 AND DARIUS MILLER WITH 12.  KENTUCKY IS BACK IN ACTION SATURDAY AT SOUTH CAROLINA, WITH PRE GAME COVERAGE BEGINNING AT 3:30 ON LITE 98.7.

THE TENNESSEE VOLS PICKED UP THEIR SECOND STRAIGHT CONFERENCE WIN IN DOWNING GEORGIA 59-57.  BRIAN WILLIAMS HIT A PUT BACK AS TIME EXPIRED TO GIVE THE VOLS THE WIN.  FORMER U-H-A STANDOUT SCOTTY HOPSON HAD 15 POINTS TO PACE THE VOLS IN SCORING.

TONIGHT’S GAMES:  THE LOUISVILLE CARDINALS ARE BACK IN BIG EAST ACTION AS THEY HOST ST. JOHN’S.  VANDERBILT MEETS OLE MISS IN MEMORIAL GYM IN NASHVILLE.

THE LEXINGTON HERALD LEADER REPORTS FORMER BALLARD HIGH SCHOOL STANDOUT TAWNY BECKHAM IS REPORTEDLY PLANNING TO WALK ON AT THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY.

BECKHAM LEFT MISSISSIPPI STATE AT THE SEMESTER BREAK AND CAN PRACTICE WITH THE WILDCATS NOW, BUT WON’T BE ELIGIBLE TO PLAY UNTIL SECOND SEMESTER NEXT YEAR.

BECKHAM LED BALLARD TO A 35-3 RECORD AND STATE RUNNER UP FINISH BEHIND SCOTT COUNTY IN 2007.

NFL

THE TENNESSEAN REPORTS TENNESSEE TITANS DEFENSIVE LINE COACH JIM WASHBURN IS TALKING WITH THE PHILADELPHIA EAGLES ABOUT AN OPENING ON ANDY REID’S STAFF.

THE EAGLES FIRED DEFENSIVE LINE COACH RORY SEGREST EARLIER THIS MONTH.  WASHBURN HAS BEEN WITH THE TITANS FOR THE PAST 12 SEASONS.

NHL

J-P DUMONT HAD HIS FIRST HAT TRICK IN NINE AND A HALF YEARS AS THE NASHVILLE PREDATORS DEFEATED PHOENIX 5-2 TUESDAY NIGHT.  THE PREDS CONTINUE THEIR LONG ROAD TRIP TOMORROW NIGHT AT COLORADO, WITH COVERAGE AT EIGHT ON NEWSTALK 95.3 FM/1230 AM WHOP.