HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL

TODAY’S ACTION HAS HOPKINSVILLE AT MADISONVILLE, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS PLAYS AT HENDERSON COUNTY,  FORT CAMPBELL TRAVELS TO STEWART COUNTY, TN., TODD CENTRAL AT JO BYRNS, TN., TRIGG COUNTY PLAYS AT MUHLENBERG COUNTY, LOGAN COUNTY HOSTS BOWLING GREEN, CALDWELL COUNTY HOSTS DAWSON SPRINGS, RUSSELLVILLE AT WEST CREEK, TN.

HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL

TODAY’S GAMES INCLUDES UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS AT HOPKINS CENTRAL, HOPKINSVILLE GOES TO MUHLENBERG COUNTY, DAWSON SPRINGS HOSTS UNION COUNTY, RUSSELLVILLE AT TODD CENTRAL,  LOGAN COUNTY AT MONROE COUNTY, LYON COUNTY HOSTS CRITTENDEN COUNTY, WEBSTER COUNTY AT MCLEAN COUNTY.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

KENTUCKY WORKS OUT TODAY IN NEWARK, NEW JERSEY BEFORE THE WILDCATS TAKE THE FLOOR IN THE NC-AA TOURNAMENT FRIDAY NIGHT AGAINST TOP RANKED OHIO STATE.  TIP OFF IS SET FOR 8:45, WITH PRE GAME COVERAGE BEGINNING AT SEVEN ON LITE 98.7.

FORMER KENTUCKY COACH BILLY GILLISPIE WAS INTRODUCED YESTERDAY AS THE NEW COACH AT TEXAS TECH.  THE 51-YEAR-OLD GILLISPIE REPLACES PAT KNIGHT WHO WAS FIRED AT THE END OF THE SEASON.

ARKANSAS HAS A NEW COACH, AS FORMER ASSISTANT MIKE ANDERSON RETURNS TO FAYETTEVILLE AFTER SERVING AS HEAD COACH AT MISSOURI.  ANDERSON WAS AN ASSISTANT TO FORMER RAZORBACK COACH NOLAN RICHARDSON.

UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE BASKETBALL SIGNEE KEVIN WARE HAS CHANGED HIS MIND ABOUT STAYING WITH THE VOLS, AFTER EARLIER THIS WEEK SAYING HE WAS GETTING OUT OF HIS COMMITMENT.  THE KNOXVILLE NEWS SENTINEL REPORTS WARE WEDNESDAY SAID HE WAS A VOL FOR LIFE ON HIS TWITTER ACCOUNT.

TOBIAS HARRIS’S FATHER TELLS USA TODAY HIS SON WOULD HAVE GONE THROUGH THE PROCESS OF TESTING THE N-B-A WATERS WHETHER BRUCE PEARL WAS STILL COACH AT TENNESSEE OR NOT.  TORREL HARRIS SAYS HE AND HIS SON WILL DECIDE MAY 8^TH WHETHER TO RETURN TO TENNESSEE OR ENTER THE N-B-A DRAFT.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

KENTUCKY BEGAN SPRING PRACTICE WEDNESDAY, WITH COACH JOKER PHILLIPS SAYING THE QUARTERBACK JOB BELONGS TO MORGAN NEWTON.  NEWTON STARTED EIGHT GAMES LAST SEASON AFTER MIKE HARTLINE SUFFERED INJURIES.  NEWTON ALSO STARTED KENTUCKY’S LOSS TO PITTSBURGH IN THE B-B-V-A COMPASS BOWL. 

PHILLIPS SAYS NEWTON WAS IMPRESSIVE IN THE FIRST WORKOUT OF THE SPRING.

AUSTIN PEAY HAS RELEASED ITS 2011 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE.  THE GOVERNORS WILL OPEN THE SEASON SEPTEMBER 3^RD AT CINCINNATI AND AFTER AN OPEN DATE WILL PLAY AT MEMPHIS SEPTEMBER 17^TH.  THE GOVERNORS WILL OPEN OHIO VALLEY CONFERENCE PLAY SEPTEMBER 24^TH HOSTING EASTERN KENTUCKY.  AUSTIN PEAY WILL RENEW ITS SERIES WITH MURRAY STATE NOVEMBER 12^TH AT STEWART STADIUM.

NHL

THE NASHVILLE PREDATORS PUSH FOR THE STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS CONTINUES TONIGHT AS THEY HOST THE ANAHEIM DUCKS, WITH FIRST PUCK DROPPING JUST AFTER SEVEN AT BRIDGESTONE ARENA.