SPORTS UPDATE 1/15/13

College Basketball:   Kentucky hosts Tennessee in an SEC game in Rupp Arena this evening, with pre game coverage at 4:30 on Lite 98.7. Elsewhere in the SEC, Vanderbilt meets South Carolina.

Top 25 games have number 2 Indiana hosting Wisconsin, number 10 Creighton meets Northern Iowa, 20^th rated Notre Dame is at St. John’s and 24^th rated Cincinnati is at DePaul.

NFL: Denver Broncos offensive coordinator Mike McCoy has told the team he is accepting the head coaching job of the San Diego Chargers. Sources say McCoy was offered the job today and has cancelled a visit to the Arizona Cardinals, where he was to meet with them a second time about their head coaching vacancy.

McCoy would become the second Broncos coordinator to take a head coaching job within the AFC West in the last two seasons. Former Broncos defensive coordinator Dennis Allen was named Oakland Raiders head coach after the 2011 season.

MLB: The Cincinnati Reds will again bring their Reds Caravan to Greenwood Mall in Bowling Green. The event is set for Saturday, January 26^th from 3:30-5:30 pm and will feature broadcaster Jeff Brantley, infielder Todd Frazier and 2012 minor league player of the year Billy Hamilton among others.

Meanwhile, the closest St. Louis Cardinals caravans to our area will be in Dyersburg, TN Sunday at noon and will feature Matt Adams, Sam Freeman and Michael Wacha, with the same group of players to also be at a stop in Cape Girardeau Monday at 6 pm.

Join Todd Hamilton for Sports Tonight at 5:08 Wednesday on Newstalk 95.3 FM/1230 AM WHOP. Among Todd’s guests will be Michael Tobiason, who was on the Golf Channel’s Big Break Greenbrier show last fall.   Then at 7, join Paul McCann and Pete Weber for Slap Shot Radio.