COLLEGE FOOTBALL

BOWLING GREEN HIGH OFFENSIVE LINEMAN JOE MANLEY MADE HIS COLLEGE DECISION OVER THE WEEKEND.

THE COURIER JOURNAL REPORTS MANLEY COMMITTED TO LOUISVILLE ON SATURDAY. HE BECOMES THE FOURTH COMMITMENT FOR THE CARDS IN THE LAST WEEK, AND THE 12^TH FOR THE 2012 CLASS. SCOUT.COM HAS MANLEY RANKED AS THE NUMBER TWO OFFENSIVE LINEMAN IN THE STATE.

KENTUCKY WIDE RECEIVER LA ROD KING SAYS THE YOUNG RECEIVERS NEED TO RESIST TAKING IT EASY AND CATCH A FEW EXTRA PASSES IN PREPARING FOR THE UPCOMING SEASON. KING SAYS WITH THE WILDCATS HAVING TO REPLACE THE TWO TOP RECEIVERS FROM LAST SEASON, YOUNG PLAYERS NEED TO STEP UP.

KING LAST SEASON CAUGHT 36 PASSES FOR 478 YARDS AND FIVE TOUCHDOWNS, WHICH ARE THE MOST OF ANY RETURNING PLAYER. KENTUCKY OPENS THE SEASON AGAINST WESTERN KENTUCKY SEPTEMBER FIRST AT L-P FIELD IN NASHVILLE.

MEDIA DAYS BEGIN IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL THIS WEEK, WITH THE SUN BELT CONFERENCE BEGINNING ACTIVITIES TODAY. THE SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE HAS ITS FESTIVITIES BEGINNING WEDNESDAY AND THE OHIO VALLEY CONFERENCE HOLDS ITS MEDIA DAY ONE WEEK FROM TODAY.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

LOUISVILLE COACH RICK PITINO SAYS IT WOULD NOT SURPRISE HIM IF GUARD PEYTON SIVA LEFT THE CARDINALS FOR THE N-B-A AFTER THE UPCOMING SEASON.

IN A STORY PUBLISHED SUNDAY BY THE COURIER JOURNAL, PITINO SAYS SIVA IS ONE OF THE TOP FIVE INDIVIDUALS HE HAS COACHED IN HIS 35 YEARS AT THE COLLEGIATE AND PROFESSIONAL LEVELS.

NASCAR

REVIEWS ARE COMING IN FOR THE INAGURAL QUAKER STATE 400 AT KENTUCKY SPEEDWAY AND THE COURIER JOURNAL REPORTS BUSINESSES AROUND THE SPEEDWAY REPORTED MIXED RESULTS.

SOME BUSINESSES DID WELL, OTHERS DID NOT. ONE AREA WHERE OFFICIALS SAY WILL BE MUCH BETTER NEXT YEAR IS PARKING. OFFICIALS SAY A MORE EFFICIENT TRAFFIC AND PARKING PLAN ARE NEEDED BY NEXT YEAR’S RACE.

MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

THE TRADEWATER PIRATES WERE OFF SUNDAY AND WILL NOT PLAY TONIGHT AS WELL. THE PIRATES ARE THREE GAMES BEHIND LEAGUE LEADER FULTON. THE PIRATES HOST MARION IN A FIVE P-M DOUBLEHEADER TUESDAY AT RIVERSIDE PARK IN DAWSON SPRINGS.

ON SUNDAY, MARION AND OWENSBORO SPLIT A DOUBLEHEADER WITH OWENSBORO WINNING GAME ONE 3-0, MARION THE NIGHTCAP 4-3.

THE NASHVILLE SOUNDS CLOSED OUT A HOMESTAND WITH A 9-5 LOSS TO ALBUQUERQUE AT GREER STADIUM. THE SOUNDS OPEN A FOUR GAME SERIES AT THE IOWA CUBS TONIGHT.

THE BOWLING GREEN HOT RODS LOST SUNDAY AT QUAD CITIES 8-4, WITH THE TWO TEAMS TO CONCLUDE THEIR SERIES THIS EVENING.

GOLF

LUCAS CROMEENES WON THE PROFESSIONAL DIVISION OF THE IRVIN COBB GOLF TOURNAMENT IN PADUCAH SUNDAY, FINISHING ONE STROKE AHEAD OF FORMER MURRAY STATE GOLFER CAMERON CARRICO AND KYLE HOSICK.

KODY ALEXANDER HAD THE BEST SCORE OF ALL FINISHERS, NINE UNDER 133 TO WIN THE AMATEUR TITLE BY THREE STROKES OVER TYLER MITCHELL OF CADIZ.

MATTHEW ZAKUTNEY WON THE JUNIOR DIVISION WITH A TWO DAY TOTAL OF TWO OVER 144.

CHRISTIAN COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL WILL BEGIN A SEARCH FOR A NEW ATHLETICS DIRECTOR. JUST A COUPLE OF MONTHS AFTER RESIGNING AS BOYS BASKETBALL COACH TO TAKE THE A-D’S POSITION, KERRY STOVALL ANNOUNCED HIS RESIGNATION FRIDAY.

STOVALL HAS ACCEPTED A TEACHING POSITION IN MUHLENBERG COUNTY, WHERE HE LIVES. STOVALL TOLD WHOP SPORTS HE WILL NOT BE COACHING IN ANY CAPACITY AND ADDED MAKING THIS DECISION WAS VERY HARD. STOVALL COACHED BASKETBALL TEN YEARS AT CHRISTIAN COUNTY, AND LED THE COLONELS TO THIS YEAR’S BOYS STATE HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP.

GOLF

FRIDAY WAS A LONG DAY FOR THE FIELD AT THE U-S WOMEN’S OPEN, BEING PLAYED AT THE BROADMOOR IN COLORADO SPRINGS.

MUCH OF THE FIELD, INCLUDING PRINCETON’S EMMA TALLEY HAD TO FINISH FIRST ROUND PLAY. TALLEY HAD ONE HOLE TO GO WHEN PLAY WAS SUSPENDED DUE TO WEATHER THURSDAY. TALLEY CAME OUT FRIDAY MORNING AND PARRED HER FINAL HOLE, THE 18^TH, TO FINISH AT FOUR OVER PAR 75.

TALLEY DID NOT GET TO HIT ANOTHER STROKE IN COMPETITION FRIDAY AND IS CURRENTLY TIED FOR 41^ST. SHE IS SCHEDULED TO TEE OFF IN HER SECOND ROUND JUST AFTER 8:30 HOPKINSVILLE TIME THIS MORNING. GLASGOW’S WHITNEY WADE PLAYED ONE HOLE FRIDAY AND STANDS AT NINE OVER PAR.

I-K KIM IS THE LEADER WITH A FOUR UNDER PAR SCORE THROUGH 14 HOLES OF HER SECOND ROUND. PLAY WAS HALTED AGAIN LATE FRIDAY DUE TO DARKNESS. AS PLAY BEGINS THIS MORNING, THE PROJECTED CUT LINE IS AT EIGHT OVER PAR, HOWEVER THAT WILL LIKELY CHANGE AS PLAY CONTINUES TODAY. TO FOLLOW EMMA TALLEY’S PROGRESS, YOU CAN CHECK THE LEADERBOARD AT www.usga.org AND CLICK ON THE US WOMEN’S OPEN LEADERBOARD.

NASCAR

BRAD KESLOWSKI CRUISED TO AN EASY WIN AT THE NATIONWIDE SERIES FEED THE CHILDREN 300 LAST NIGHT AT KENTUCKY SPEEDWAY. TONIGHT, THE SPRINT CUP QUAKER STATE 300 TAKES PLACE AT THE RACE TRACK IN GALLATIN COUNTY.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

THE LEXINGTON HERALD LEADER REPORTS KENTUCKY DEFENSIVE LINEMAN NERMIN DELIC, WHO DECIDED TO GIVE UP FOOTBALL THREE WEEKS AGO, HAS BEEN ACCEPTED BACK ON THE TEAM BY COACH JOKER PHILLIPS.

DELIC PLAYED IN EIGHT GAMES DURING HIS FRESHMAN SEASON AT KENTUCKY. DELIC HAD DECIDED TO GIVE UP FOOTBALL AFTER GOING THROUGH THREE SURGERIES IN THREE MONTHS. HE ALSO SAYS HE WILL NOT PLAY OR PRACTICE OR ATTEND CLASSES THIS FALL, BUT WILL RETURN TO THE CLASSROOM AND TO PRACTICE FOR THE SPRING SEMESTER.

ATHLON SPORTS INTRODUCED ITS RANKINGS OF THE TOP FIRST YEAR COACHES FROM LAST SEASON AND TWO KENTUCKY SCHOOLS HAD COACHES RANKED IN THE TOP FIVE. THE BOWLING GREEN DAILY NEWS REPORTS WESTERN KENTUCKY’S WILLIE TAGGART WAS THE FOURTH BEST FIRST YEAR COACH LAST SEASON. TAGGART LED THE HILLTOPPERS TO A 2-10 SEASON, BUT ATHLON SPORTS CITED THE TEAM’S OVERALL IMPROVEMENT TO RANKING TAGGART HIGH IN THE LIST. THE NUMBER ONE COACH LAST SEASON WAS LOUISVILLE’S CHARLIE STRONG, WHO LED THE CARDINALS TO A BOWL APPEARANCE IN THE BEEF O’ BRADY’S BOWL.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

KENTUCKY HAS A NEW PLAYER ON ITS TEAM, AT LEAST IN NAME. THE LEXINGTON HERALD LEADER REPORTS INCOMING FRESHMAN MICHAEL GILCHRIST HAS CHANGED IS NAME TO MICHAEL KIDD-GILCHRIST. KIDD-GILCHRIST SAID ON HIS TWITTER ACCOUNT FRIDAY HE IS MAKING THE NAME CHANGE TO HONOR HIS LATE UNCLE DARRIN KIDD, WHO DIED OF A HEART ATTACK THE DAY HE SIGNED WITH KENTUCKY.

COLLEGE ATHLETICS

THE KNOXVILLE NEWS SENTINEL REPORTS THOSE INTERESTED IN BECOMING THE ATHLETICS DIRECTOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HAVE THROUGH TOMORROW TO SUBMIT THEIR RESUME’ AND OTHER MATERIALS.

PARKER EXECUTIVE SEARCH—THE COMPANY HELPING THE SCHOOL FIND MIKE HAMILTON’S SUCCESSOR—WILL THEN MOVE ON TO THE NEXT PHASE OF THE SEARCH. THE NEWSPAPER REPORTS THROUGH AN OPEN RECORDS REQUEST, THERE HAVE BEEN NO EMAILS, LETTERS OR RESUMES THAT HAVE EXPRESSED INTEREST IN THE POSITION.

NHL

ONE DAY AFTER FOUR RESTRICTED FREE AGENTS SIGNED NEW DEALS WITH THE NASHVILLE PREDATORS, THE FIFTH ALSO INKED A NEW CONTRACT.

THE TENNESSEAN REPORTS FORWARD SERGI KOSTITSYN SIGNED A ONE YEAR, TWO POINT FIVE MILLION DOLLAR CONTRACT. THE SIGNING CAME JUST BEFORE AN ARBITRATOR WAS TO HEAR KOSTITSYN’S GRIEVANCE AGAINST THE TEAM. KOSTITSYN’S 23 GOALS LEAD THE PREDATORS LAST SEASON.

MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

THE TRADEWATER PIRATES OPENED A TWO GAME SERIES WITH OWENSBORO AT RIVERSIDE PARK LAST NIGHT, DEFEATING THE OILERS 5-3. THE TWO TEAMS WRAP UP THEIR SERIES TONIGHT IN DAWSON SPRINGS.

THE BOWLING GREEN HOT RODS SWEPT A DOUBLEHEADER FROM LAKE COUNTY FRIDAY NIGHT AT BOWLING GREEN BALLPARK. THE HOT RODS WON THE FIRST GAME WITH THE CLUB’S FIRST EVER NO HITTER BY VICTOR MATEO 1-0 IN THE NIGHTCAP AFTER TAKING THE FIRST GAME 5-1. THE HOT RODS ARE ON THE ROAD FOR A WHILE NOW, OPENING A SERIES TONIGHT AT WEST MICHIGAN.

THE NASHVILLE SOUNDS LOST FOR THE SECOND STRAIGHT NIGHT AT ALBQUERQUE 7-1 WITH GAME THREE SET FOR THIS EVENING.

JUST AFTER RESIGNING FOLLOWING THE BASKETBALL SEASON AS COACH, KERRY STOVALL HAS NOW RESIGNED AS ATHLETICS DIRECTOR AT CHRISTIAN COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL.  STOVALL TOLD WHOP SPORTS THIS MORNING HE WILL BE ACCEPTING A TEACHING POSITION IN MUHLENBERG COUNTY, WHERE HE LIVES.  WE'LL HAVE MORE ON THIS DEVELOPING STORY DURING THE BUDWEISER SPORTS FLASH THIS AFTERNOON ON THE WHOP FAMILY OF STATIONS.

PRINCETON'S EMMA TALLEY HAS COMPLETED HER FIRST ROUND IN THE WEATHER DELAYED US WOMEN'S OPEN IN COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO.  TALLEY PLAYED THE 18TH HOLE THIS MORNING AND FINISHED WITH A PAR AND A SCORE OF FOUR OVER PAR 75.  TALLEY IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN HER SECOND ROUND HOPEFULLY LATER TODAY.  TO FOLLOW TALLEY'S PROGRESS, GO TO www.usga.org.

GOLF

RAIN HALTED PLAY THURSDAY AFTERNOON IN THE FIRST ROUND OF THE U-S WOMEN’S OPEN AT THE BROADMOOR IN COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO.

PRINCETON’S EMMA TALLEY WAS AT FOUR OVER PAR WITH ONE HOLE TO GO WHEN PLAY WAS STOPPED. TALLEY HAS CARDED FIVE BOGIES—INCLUDING THREE IN A ROW ON THE FRONT NINE—AND HAS BIRDIED 16.  

TALLEY WILL GO BACK OUT EARLY THIS MORNING TO PLAY HER LAST HOLE OF THE OPENING ROUND, THEN TEE OFF LATER IN THE DAY FOR HER SECOND ROUND. GLASGOW’S WHITNEY WADE IS ALSO PLAYING IN THE TOURNAMENT, AND OPENED WITH A NINE OVER 80.

2007 OPEN CHAMP CRISTIE KERR AND AMATEUR AMY ANDERSON WERE LEADING THE TOURNAMENT AT TWO UNDER WHEN PLAY WAS STOPPED.

HOPKINSVILLE HIGH GOLFER DAYTON JONES FINISHED TIED FOR SECOND AT THE KENTUCKY JUNIOR AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP AT FORT KNOX THURSDAY.

JONES FIRED A 74, FOR A TWO DAY TOTAL OF 144, THREE STROKES BEHIND THE WINNER ASHTON VAN HORNE IN THE BOYS 17-18 DIVISION.

CHRISTIAN COUNTY HIGH’S T-J FERRY FINISHED TIED FOR 28^TH IN THE BOYS 15-16 DIVISION WITH A TWO DAY SCORE OF 159.

U-H-A’S CAMERON ALLEN WITHDREW FROM THE EVENT.

U-H-A’S ANNA MOORE FINISHED 23^RD AT THE GIRLS JUNIOR STATE AM WHICH CONCLUDED THURSDAY AT MAYWOOD GOLF CLUB IN BARDSTOWN. MOORE HAD A TWO DAY TOTAL OF 187.

THE GO JUNIOR GOLF TOUR HAD ITS HOPKINSVILLE CHAMPIONSHIP THURSDAY AT HOPKINSVILLE GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUB.

HOPKINSVILLE’S JESSICA SHELTON WAS NAMED THE HOPKINSVILLE CHAMPION OF THE GIRLS 11-12 DIVISION AFTER SHOOTING 52 THURSDAY.

CAITLYN SHELTON WON THE 9-10 GIRLS DIVISION WITH A 44.

HOPKINSVILLE’S BRYAN CAMPBELL WON THE BOYS NINE HOLE 13-15 CHAMPIONSHIP.

IN THE BOYS 18 HOLE 13-15 CHAMPIONSHIP, AUSTIN KNIGHT WAS FOURTH WITH AN 87, DYLAN HENDERSON 5^TH WITH AN 88, T-J JANES 6^TH WITH A 91, FOLLOWED BY JAY CAMP IN 7^TH PLACE AND GRANT STAMPER IN 8^TH.

HOPKINSVILLE’S JACK GARDNER WON THE BOYS 16-18 CHAMPIONSHIP WITH A 79.

COLLEGE ATHLETICS

THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HAS YET TO BEGIN INTERVIEWS FOR ATHLETIC DIRECTOR MIKE HAMILTON’S REPLACEMENT. THE KNOXVILLE NEWS SENTINEL REPORTS CHANCELLOR JIMMY CHEEK NOR HIS SEARCH COMMITTEE HAVE INTERVIEWED ANY CANDIDATES AND IT’S NOT KNOWN WHEN INTERVIEWS WILL BEGIN.

HAMILTON RESIGNED FROM HIS POSITION EXACTLY ONE MONTH AGO. SENIOR WOMEN’S ADMINISTRATOR JOAN CRONAN IS CURRENTLY SERVING AS INTERIM A-D.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

VANDERBILT STADIUM WILL BE GETTING A NEW TURF THANKS TO THE ROCK BAND U2.

THE GROUP PERFORMED A CONCERT THERE LAST SATURDAY, AND THANKS TO EQUIPMENT PLACED ON THE FIELD ALONG WITH CONCERT GOERS, THE NATURAL GRASS SURFACE TOOK A BEATING.

THE BAND IS PICKING UP THE TAB ON THE NEW SURFACE, WITH THE TENNESSEAN SAYING IT WAS PART OF THE CONTRACT THE BAND SIGNED WITH THE UNIVERSITY WITH THE COST UNKNOWN.

CREWS BEGAN TEARING OUT THE OLD SOD THURSDAY, WITH A NEW TURF TO BE IN PLACE AND READY TO GO BY THE TIME THE COMMODORES OPEN THE SEASON SEPTEMBER THIRD AGAINST ELON.

NFL

TENNESSEE TITANS QUARTERBACK KERRY COLLINS IS CALLING IT A CAREER. THE VETERAN SIGNAL CALLER IS RETIRING AFTER 16 SEASONS. IN A STATEMENT RELEASED THROUGH HIS AGENT, COLLINS SAID HIS DESIRE TO COMPETE REMAINS, BUT NOT THE COMMITMENT TO PREPARATION INVOLVED.

COLLINS BEGAN HIS CAREER WITH THE CAROLINA PANTHERS IN 1995, AND ALSO PLAYED WITH THE NEW YORK GIANTS, OAKLAND RAIDERS AND NEW ORLEANS SAINTS.

NHL

A LOT OF UNCERTAINTY ENDED FOR THE NASHVILLE PREDATORS THURSDAY AS FOUR RESTRICTED FREE AGENTS SIGNED DEALS. FORWARD NICK SPALING, MATT HALISCHUK, CAL O’ REILLY AND CHRIS MUELLER ALL ACCEPTED NEW CONTRACTS WITH A FIFTH PLAYER—SERGI KOSTITSYN—NOT SIGNING AND WILL GO THE ROUTE OF SALARY ARBITRATION.

PREDATOR CAPTAIN SHEA WEBER HAS DECIDED TO GO THE SALARY ARBITRATION ROUTE ALSO, WITH A HEARING DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON. GENERAL MANAGER DAVID POILE SAYS THERE IS ABOUT A TWO WEEK WINDOW BEFORE THE HEARING AND IS HOPEFUL WEBER CAN BE RE-SIGNED BEFORE THEN.

NASCAR

KYLE BUSCH CAME FROM THE REAR OF THE PACK TO WIN THE NASCAR TRUCK RACE AT KENTUCKY SPEEDWAY THURSDAY NIGHT.

RACING CONTINUES THIS EVENING AT KENTUCKY SPEEDWAY WITH THE NATIONWIDE SERIES EVENT, THEN THE QUAKER STATE 400 TOMORROW EVENING.

MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

THE TRADEWATER PIRATES DEFEATED MARION 6-1 THURSDAY NIGHT AND HAVE MOVED TO WITHIN A GAME OF THE LEAGUE LEADING BOBCATS. THE PIRATES OPEN A TWO GAME SERIES WITH OWENSBORO AT RIVERSIDE PARK IN DAWSON SPRINGS TONIGHT AT SEVEN.

OWENSBORO LOST TO FULTON 4-2 THURSDAY NIGHT. FULTON AND MARION WILL PLAY TONIGHT IN MARION.

THE NASHVILLE SOUNDS LOST A SERIES OPENER AT ALBQUERQUE 4-1, WITH GAME TWO OF THE SERIES THIS EVENING.

THE BOWLING GREEN HOT RODS GAME WITH LAKE COUNTY WAS POSTPONED DUE TO RAIN. THE TEAMS ARE SCHEDULED TO PLAY A DOUBLEHEADER AT 4:30 THIS AFTERNOON.

FORMER CHRISTIAN COUNTY AND CURRENT SAVANAH STATE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL PLAYER RIKIAH GATLIN WAS ARRESTED JULY 4^TH BY SAVANNAH STATE UNIVERSITY POLICE ON FIGHTING CHARGES.

THE CHATHAM COUNTY JAIL’S WEBSITE SAYS GATLIN WAS CHARGED WITH FIGHTING IN A PUBLIC PLACE AND DISORDERLY CONDUCT, WITH BOND SET AT 24-HUNRED DOLLARS.

GATLIN TRANSFERRED TO SAVANNAH STATE FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI. GATLIN STARTED IN FOUR OF 17 GAMES SHE APPEARED IN LAST SEASON AVERAGING THREE POINTS AND ALMOST FIVE REBOUNDS PER GAME.

PRINCETON'S EMMA TALLEY WAS AT FIVE OVER PAR THROUGH 14 HOLES IN HER FIRST ROUND OF THE U-S WOMEN'S OPEN AT THE BRODMOOR IN COLORADO SPRINGS.  YOU CAN FOLLOW LIVE SCORING AT THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF THE U-S WOMEN'S OPEN AT www.usga.org