Updated: 5:35 PM Lexington, KY (July 17, 2008) – Officials at Keeneland and Turfway Park today announced a new shoe policy banning the use of toe grabs. The policy is effective at both racetracks beginning September 1.

Posted: 4:50 PM TROTWOOD, Ohio (AP) - The Ohio High School Athletic Association says it has suspended a football coach in suburban Dayton for trying to recruit players enrolled at other schools.

Posted: 11:53 AM LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky basketball coach Billy Gillispie says star center Patrick Patterson's recovery from an ankle injury is well ahead of schedule.

Updated: 5:57 PM UK coach Billy Gillispie spoke to reporters for more than 45 minutes on Thursday morning.

Posted: 11:27 PM DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Kyle Busch stands a victory away from making NASCAR history as the first driver to win a race in all three of the organization's national series in successive starts.

Posted: 11:24 PM LEXINGTON, Ky. – Former UK Wildcat J.B. Holmes opens play on Thursday in the 137th British Open Golf Championship at Royal Birkdale in Southport, England.

Posted: 10:52 PM LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Former Paul Dunbar High School star A.J. Ellis hit a two-run double to cap a ninth-inning rally by the Pacific CoastLeague and it held off the International League 6-5 in the Triple-A All-Star game Wednesday night.

Posted: 6:10 PM Former UK big man Randolph Morris worked out for the Atlanta Hawks.

Posted: 6:07 PM LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - A subcommittee of the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission unanimously recommended an anabolic steroid ban in horse racing Wednesday.

Posted: 2:11 PM New Orleans -- July 15, 2008 -- Dillard University's Interim Athletic Director, Kiki Baker Barnes announced the hiring of Dale Brown as Dillard's new head men's basketball coach today. "Dale Brown is no stranger to college basketball or the Gulf Coast region," said Barnes. "Brown brings a wealth of contacts and experiences that will help bring our program back to national prominence."

Updated: 6:48 PM Sprinter Tyson Gay is in Germany, resting, relaxing and getting ready for his next race - almost exactly like he planned before getting injured at the U.S. Olympic Trials.

Updated: 9:21 PM Churchill Downs track announcer Luke Kruytbosch was found dead this morning in his Evansville, Indiana apartment. Kruytbosch had been working at Ellis Park's summer meet in Henderson, Kentucky.

Updated: 6:48 PM The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission voted to limit the length of toe grabs on a horse's front hooves Monday, a move experts say could save countless horses from injury.

Updated: 6:40 PM The Eastern Kentucky University Athletics Hall of Fame will enshrine its third induction class, featuring nine distinguished individuals, during an afternoon ceremony on Saturday, September 13, in EKU’s Perkins Building.

Updated: 4:09 PM Billy Packer is out after 27 years as the lead college basketball analyst for CBS, making way for Clark Kellogg. Kellogg has done game and studio analysis for CBS for 16 years. He will partner with Jim Nantz on his first Final Four in April. Packer did 34 consecutive Final Fours.

Updated: 8:11 PM Kenny Perry beat Brad Adamonis and Jay Williamson in a playoff to win the John Deere Classic and escape with his third victory in five starts after bogeying the 18th hole on Sunday.

Posted: 11:08 AM SILVIS, Ill. -- Kenny Perry can't figure it out, either. The new putter? That seems to be helping. His surgically repaired knee? It feels fine, after he rushed back two years ago.K

Posted: 5:46 PM NEW YORK (AP) - Curlin made it close but finished second in his first test of the turf. Red Rocks took the lead in the stretch and held off the reigning Horse of the Year by two lengths in winning the Man o'War Stakes at Belmont Park on Saturday.

Posted: 5:32 PM LEXINGTON, Ky. – Dates have been set for annual football fan events such as the Kroger Kickoff Luncheon, Women’s Clinic and Fan Day.

Updated: 5:15 PM Lexington, KY— In a unanimous decision by the judges, Brooke Jacobs defeated four talented riders in the 2008 United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) Saddle Seat Adult Amateur Medal Final. Despite the heat, Jacobs completed the rail and pattern work to outshine the competition at the Lexington Junior League Horse Show at the famous The Red Mile racetrack.

Posted: 4:28 PM NEW YORK (AP) - Horse of the Year Curlin takes the first step Saturday on a journey that could carry him all the way to France. Curlin is set for his turf debut in the $500,000 Man o' War Stakes at Belmont Park. If the 4-year-old runs well on the grass, majority owner Jess Jackson and trainer Steve Asmussen plan to send the colt to Paris for the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp on Oct. 5.

Posted: 3:06 PM Playing together for the first time since the 2006 Kentucky Southeastern Conference Championship season, former UK standouts Collin Cowgill and Sean Coughlin had monster evenings in the Midwest League, leading the South Bend Silver Hawks to a 10-2 win over Quad Cities.

Updated: 8:02 PM CHICAGO (AP) - David Ross and the Cincinnati Reds felt right at home with the wind blowing out of Wrigley Field on Thursday. The Chicago Cubs' friendly confines was even nicer to a visiting team, for once. Ross hit two of Cincinnati's seven homers, a long-ball barrage that included Ken Griffey Jr.'s 605th, and the Reds avoided a sweep with a 12-7 victory.

Posted: 3:11 PM PARK CITY, Utah (AP) - Teddy Dupay, who played on Florida's runner-up team in the 2000 NCAA basketball tournament, was charged with beating and raping a woman last month at a Utah ski resort.

Updated: 1:12 PM Vindication, winner of the 2002 Breeders' Cup Juvenile and voted champion 2-year-old, has been euthanized following the discovery of an irreparable gastric rupture.