HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL

ALL GAMES ACROSS THE AREA WERE CANCELLED MONDAY NIGHT BECAUSE OF THE WINTER STORM AND THE SAME IS EXPECTED THIS EVENING.

HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL

CHRISTIAN COUNTY HIGH WAS SCHEDULED TO HAVE ITS FOOTBALL BANQUET THIS EVENING, HOWEVER IT HAS BEEN CANCELLED AND WILL BE RESCHEDULED AT A LATER DATE.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

IN THE OVC

AUSTIN PEAY LOST FOR THE THIRD TIME IN THE LAST FOUR GAMES AT TENNESSEE TECH 70-64.  FRESHMAN WILL TRIGGS LED THE GOVERNORS IN SCORING WITH 25 POINTS.  THE GOVERNORS ARE NOW 15-11 OVERALL AND 9-5 IN THE O-V-C.  AUSTIN PEAY HOSTS TENNESSEE STATE SATURDAY NIGHT.

MURRAY STATE WON ITS SIXTH STRAIGHT GAME AT EASTERN ILLINOIS 66-53.  THE RACERS WERE LED IN SCORING BY BJ JENKINS WITH 21 POINTS.  THE FIRST PLACE RACERS ARE NOW 18-6 OVERALL AND 10-3 IN THE O-V-C.  MURRAY STATE HOSTS TENNESSEE TECH THURSDAY NIGHT.

KENTUCKY’S WOMEN CAME UP SHORT AGAINST TENNESSEE, FALLING TO THE 4^TH RATED LADY VOLS 73-67 IN LEXINGTON.  VICTORIA DUNLAP LED KENTUCKY WITH 20 POINTS, TENNESSEE LED BY SHEKINNA STRICKLAND WHO SCORED 18 OF HER 20 POINTS IN THE SECOND HALF.

TONIGHT’S GAMES

BRUCE PEARL MARKS HIS RETURN AS HEAD COACH OF THE TENNESSEE VOLS AS THEY ARE IN LEXINGTON TO PLAY A KENTUCKY TEAM, LOOKING TO GET A WIN AFTER TWO ROAD LOSSES AT OLE MISS AND FLORIDA.

TENNESSEE’S SCOTTY HOPSON IS LISTED AS QUESTIONABLE FOR TONIGHT’S GAME FOLLOWING AN ANKLE SPRAIN SUFFERED IN PRACTICE LAST WEEK.  THE LEXINGTON HERALD LEADER REPORTS HOPSON TRIED TO PRACTICE MONDAY, BUT SPENT PART OF THE WORKOUT OFF THE COURT WITH HIS FOOT ELEVATED.

PRE GAME COVERAGE FROM RUPP ARENA BEGINS AT 6:30 ON LITE 98.7

BOTH KENTUCKY AND LOUISVILLE TOOK NOSE DIVES IN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TOP 25.  LOUISVILLE FELL ONE SPOT FROM 15 TO 16, WHILE KENTUCKY FELL FROM 10 TO 18.  OHIO STATE WAS NUMBER ONE IN THE POLL.

KENTUCKY FRESHMAN BRANDON KNIGHT IS ONE OF TEN FINALISTS FOR THE BOB COUSY AWARD, WHICH RECOGNIZES COLLEGE BASKETBALL’S TOP POINT GUARD. 

KNIGHT IS AVERAGING 17 AND A HALF POINTS A GAME FOR THE WILDCATS AND CURRENTLY RANKS IN THE TOP 15 OF SIX OFFENSIVE CATEGORIES IN THE SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE, WHERE HE HAS WON FRESHMAN OF THE WEEK HONORS FOUR TIMES THIS SEASON.

AUSTIN PEAY’S WILL TRIGGS HAS BEEN NAMED THE ADIDAS O-V-C FRESHMAN OF THE WEEK.  TRIGGS—FROM EDWARDSVILLE, ILLINOIS—WENT 12 OF 13 FROM THE FLOOR IN TWO GAMES AGAINST UT-MARTIN AND MURRAY STATE.  TRIGGS HAD A CAREER HIGH 15 POINTS IN 27 MINUTES IN LAST SATURDAY’S LOSS TO MURRAY STATE.

MURRAY STATE’S JESSICA WINFREY HAS RECEIVED ADIDAS O-V-C FRESHMAN OF THE WEEK HONORS.  THE RED SHIRT FRESHMAN HAD HER SEVENTH DOUBLE- DOUBLE OF THE SEASON AGAINST TENNESSEE STATE AND JUST MISSED HER EIGHTH WITH 16 POINTS AND NINE REBOUNDS AGAINST AUSTIN PEAY.

NFL

THE TENNESSEE TITANS NAMED OFFENSIVE LINE COACH MIKE MUNCHAK AS JEFF FISHER’S REPLACEMENT MONDAY.

THE 50-YEAR-OLD MUNCHAK SPENT 14 SEASONS AS TITANS OFFENSIVE LINE COACH AND BEFORE THAT WAS AN OUTSTANDING PLAYER FOR THE HOUSTON OILERS, BEING INDUCTED IN THE PRO FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME IN 2001.

MUNCHAK WAS ONE OF FOUR CANDIDATES TO INTERVIEW FOR THE JOB.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

THE COURIER JOURNAL REPORTS THE N-F-L HAS INVITED THREE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE PLAYERS TO THE N-F-L COMBINE WHICH BEGINS FEBRUARY 23^RD AT LUCAS OIL STADIUM IN INDIANAPOLIS.

THE PLAYERS ARE TAILBACK BILAL POWELL, CORNERBACK JOHNNY PATRICK AND TIGHT END CAMERON GRAHAM.

THE KNOXVILLE NEWS SENTINEL REPORTS UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE SAFETY JANZEN JACKSON HAS WITHDRAWN FROM SCHOOL.  JACKSON WITHDREW TO DEAL WITH SOME PERSONAL PROBLEMS WHICH FORCED HIM TO MISS WORKOUTS BEFORE THE MUSIC CITY BOWL IN DECEMBER. 

JACKSON’S DECISION TO LEAVE SCHOOL RULES HIM OUT OF TEAM FUNCTIONS THIS SEMESTER AND LEAVES HIS STATUS FOR WHAT WOULD BE HIS JUNIOR YEAR THIS FALL UP IN THE AIR.

NHL

THE NASHVILLE PREDATORS WERE SHUT OUT BY THE EDMONTON OILERS 4-0 AT BRIDGESTONE ARENA.  THE PREDS RETURN TO ACTION WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT DETROIT, WITH FIRST PUCK DROPPING AT 6:30.