SPORTS WEEKLY COMES YOUR WAY THIS EVENING AT 5:05 ON NEWSTALK 95.3 FM/1230 AM WHOP.  TODD HAMILTON’S GUESTS INCLUDE TRIGG COUNTY BOYS BASKETBALL COACH MIKE WRIGHT WHO WILL TALK ABOUT THE INAGURAL CLASS OF THE TRIGG COUNTY ATHLETICS HALL OF FAME, CHRISTIAN COUNTY BASKETBALL COACH KERRY STOVALL WILL ALSO VISIT AND A PREVIEW OF TONIGHT’S NASHVILLE PREDATORS HOCKEY GAME AGAINST THE DETROIT RED WINGS.

HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL

DESPITE THE SNOW AND COLD, THERE WERE SEVERAL HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL GAMES PLAYED ACROSS THE REGION TUESDAY NIGHT.

BOYS:  TODD CENTRAL FELL TO APOLLO 69-45, BOWLING GREEN DEFEATED GLASGOW 82-75, LYON COUNTY OVER LONE OAK 48-43, HENDERSON COUNTY DEFEATED OWENSBORO CATHOLIC 59-35, MURRAY OVER MAYFIELD 63-46.

GIRLS:  BALLARD MEMORIAL OVER GRAVES COUNTY 49-37, MARSHALL COUNTY OVER COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN 77-44, MURRAY OVER MAYFIELD 66-27.

TONIGHT’S GIRLS GAME BETWEEN CHRISTIAN COUNTY AND HOPKINSVILLE TO BE PLAYED AT TIGER GYM HAS BEEN CANCELLED.  IT WILL BE PLAYED AS PART OF A TRIPLEHEADER AT TIGER GYM SATURDAY.

A BOYS J-V GAME WILL TIP OFF AT THREE P-M, FOLLOWED BY THE GIRLS VARSITY GAME AT 4:30 AND THE BOYS VARSITY GAME BETWEEN CHRISTIAN COUNTY AND HOPTOWN AT SIX.  COVERAGE OF THE VARSITY GAMES BEGINS WITH THE HERITAGE BANK PRE GAME SHOW AT 4:15 ON NEWSTALK 95.3 FM/1230 AM WHOP AND WHOPAM.COM.

BLUEGRASS PREPS .COM HAS RELEASED ITS WEEKLY HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL TOP 20 POLLS.

BOYS:  LOUISVILLE EASTERN IS FIRST, CHRISTIAN COUNTY 6^TH, WARREN CENTRAL 12^TH, BOWLING GREEN 17^TH AND PADUCAH TILGHMAN 19^TH.

GIRLS:  MANUAL IS FIRST, BOWLING GREEN 5^TH, CALLOWAY COUNTY 11^TH, GREENWOOD 15^TH, OWENSBORO CATHOLIC 19^TH AND GRAYSON COUNTY 20^TH.

THE KENTUCKY HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION’S BOARD OF CONTROL HAS ANNOUNCED SWEEPING CHANGES TO THE 6^TH AND 7^TH REGION ALIGNMENTS FOR BASKETBALL.

THE 6^TH REGION WILL BECOME THE NORTH REGION, WITH LOUISVILLE MALE BECOMING THE SOUTHERNMOST SCHOOL, WHILE THE 7^TH REGION BE A SOUTH REGION WITH JEFFERSONTOWN AND LOUISVILLE BUTLER AS THE NORTHERNMOST SCHOOLS. 

KHSAA COMMISSIONER JULIAN TACKETT SAYS BASKETBALL REALIGNMENT IS NOT ON THE AGENDA UNTIL THE 2013-14 SCHOOL YEAR, BUT LOUISVILLE OFFICIALS BEGAN DISCUSSIONS LAST YEAR AND THE BOARD DECIDED TO ACT UPON IT.

THE KENTUCKY HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION’S BOARD OF CONTROL HAS APPROVED A MEASURE CHANGING OVERTIME RULES FOR SOCCER MATCHES BEGINNING NEXT SEASON.

FOR REGULAR SEASON DISTRICT MATCHES, ANY CONTEST THAT IS TIED WILL GO TO TWO FIVE MINUTE SUDDEN VICTORY PERIODS.  IF NO WINNER IS DETERMINED AFTER THAT, PENALTY KICKS WILL DETERMINE THE WINNER.

REGULAR SEASON TOURNAMENTS THAT HAVE BRACKET PLAY FOR TEAMS TO ADVANCE WILL GO DIRECTLY TO PENALTY KICKS AT GAME’S END.

ALL OTHER REGULAR SEASON GAMES WILL END IN TIES.

POST SEASON MATCHES WILL ALSO HAVE TWO FIVE MINUTE SUDDEN VICTORY PERIODS.  IF NO WINNER IS DETERMINED FOLLOWING THAT, BOTH TEAMS WILL HAVE PENALTY KICKS TO DETERMINE THE WINNER.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

THE KENTUCKY WILDCATS SPOILED BRUCE PEARL’S RETURN TO THE TENNESSEE VOLS BENCH, AS THEY DEFEATED THE VOLS 73-61.

DEANDRE LIGGINS HAD 19 POINTS AND JOSH HARRELSON ADDED 16 TO LEAD KENTUCKY TO VICTORY.  SCOTTY HOPSON HAD 11 POINTS FOR THE VOLS WHO WERE LED IN SCORING BY MELVIN GOINS WITH 16.

KENTUCKY IS BACK IN ACTION SATURDAY AT VANDERBILT, WITH PRE GAME COVERAGE SATURDAY MORNING AT 10:30 ON LITE 98.7.  TENNESSEE TRAVELS TO FLORIDA SATURDAY NIGHT.

COACH JOHN CALIPARI HAS HIS WEEKLY CALL IN SHOW AT FIVE TONIGHT, FOLLOWED BY BIG BLUE SPORTS NIGHTLY AT SIX ON LITE 98.7.

THE LOUISVILLE CARDINALS ARE BACK IN ACTION TONIGHT AT NOTRE DAME.  THE LAST TIME THE CARDS PLAYED AT THE JOYCE CENTER BACK IN 2009, THEY WERE DRUBBED BY THE FIGHTING IRISH 90-57.

NFL

NEW TENNESSEE TITANS COACH MIKE MUNCHAK FIRED POPULAR OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR MIKE HEIMERDINGER AND TWO OTHER ASSISTANT COACHES TUESDAY.

THE TENNESSEAN REPORTS BOTH THE TITANS AND HEIMERDINGER AS SAYING HIS HEALTH HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH HEIMERDINGER’S DISMISSAL.  HEIMERDINGER WAS DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER JUST BEFORE THANKSGIVING.

MEANWHILE, THE TENNESSEAN ALSO REPORTS THE TITANS WILL BE SPEAKING WITH FORMER TITAN BRUCE MATTHEWS TO BECOME THE OFFENSIVE LINE COACH AND WILL TRY TO CONVINCE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS ASSISTANT COACH JERRY GRAY TO BECOME THE TEAM’S DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR.

NHL

THE NASHVILLE PREDATORS HEAD TO HOCKEYTOWN TO MEET THE DETROIT RED WINGS THIS EVENING. COVERAGE FROM JOE LOUIS ARENA BEGINS AT 6:30 ON NEWSTALK 95.3 FM/1230 AM WHOP.

COLLEGE BASEBALL

THE OHIO VALLEY CONFERENCE HAS RELEASED ITS PRE SEASON POLL, WITH JACKSONVILLE STATE PICKED TO WIN THE LEAGUE.  MURRAY STATE IS PICKED 6^TH AND AUSTIN PEAY IS PICKED 7^TH.