Updated: 6:54 PM By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Larry Jones is halfway to history. Proud Spell drew away down the stretch to win the $500,000 Kentucky Oaks on Friday at Churchill Downs, giving her homespun trainer a shot at pulling off an unprecedented Oaks-Kentucky Derby double.
Posted: 5:16 PM By RICHARD ROSENBLATT AP Racing Writer LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - All week, the chatter along the Churchill Downs backstretch has been about Big Brown running away with the Kentucky Derby.
Posted: 4:41 PM By BEN WALKER AP National Writer LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - When it comes to picking a Kentucky Derby favorite, a lot of people simply play the name game. Be it cute, curious or catchy, that can be the deciding factor.
Posted: 11:50 PM Lofton played last season after undergoing treatment for testicular cancer, revealing to ESPN.com that he had surgery in March 2007 and four weeks of radiation starting last May.
Posted: 4:26 PM New UK Basketball signee Josh Harrelson says Billy Gillispie has told him he could get 60-70 touches per game. The forward also talks about the biggest crowd he played in front of last year in junior college.
Posted: 10:24 AM Eight Belles has never raced against theboys. The gray filly will get her big chance when she takes on 19 of 'em in the Kentucky Derby.
Updated: 11:50 AM Billy Gillispie received a verbal commitment from one of the top players in the class of 2010. Dominique Ferguson is ranked as the 8th best player in the sophomore class by scout.com.
Posted: 2:08 PM About 10 years ago, Trainer Rick Dutrow Jr.'s address was Barn 1, Tack Room D, Aqueduct Racetrack, New York. Park Avenue, it wasn't. From there to here, Dutrow has emerged as one of the nation's top trainers. He also happens to have the expected favorite for Saturday's Kentucky Derby in unbeaten Big Brown.
Updated: 8:40 AM Unbeaten Big Brown and the filly Eight Belles were among a full field of 20 horses entered for the Kentucky Derby.
Updated: 8:13 AM Josh Harrellson has said that he wants to come to UK. He signed a Letter of Intent on Tuesday.
Posted: 8:48 PM Where will UK's recruiting class rank nationally? Just one of the questions Drew Deener and Jeff Drummond talk about on Wildcat Nation.
Posted: 5:22 PM LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Kent Desormeaux is having fun again. Gone are the dark days that prompted his relocation from Southern California to the East Coast two years ago - days when all he had to show for his efforts were mounting losses.
Posted: 2:46 PM Eastern Kentucky University head women’s basketball coach Larry Joe Inman announced his retirement Tuesday at an afternoon press conference in Alumni Coliseum, just a few feet away from the court that he called home for the last 20 years. Inman ends his 28-year college coaching career with 480 wins, a 60 percent winning percentage, 10 Ohio Valley Conference regular-season championships, six OVC tournament titles, eight OVC Coach of the Year awards and six NCAA tournament appearances.
Updated: 10:14 AM UK coach Rich Brooks says that NFL teams took all of his players too late in the NFL Draft. Listen to our entire interview with Brooks as a part of Wildcat Nation, wkyt.com's sports podcast.
Posted: 9:00 AM How do you get a horse that's raced his entire career on synthetic tracks ready for the dirt at Churchill Downs?
Posted: 8:56 AM Last to show up, first to finish.
Updated: 8:37 AM An official of the United States Equestrian Federation said it appears a horse and rider didn't accurately read a jump at a weekend event, resulting in an accident.
Posted: 9:10 PM LEXINGTON, Ky. – Junior women’s golfer Mallory Blackwelder has been selected to play in the NCAA Championships as an individual as announced by the NCAA Monday.
Updated: 6:22 PM University of Kentucky center Eric Scott and running back/kick returner Rafael Little have signed free-agent contracts with the Tennessee Titans and linebacker Wesley Woodyard has signed a free-agent deal with the Denver Broncos. UK now has seven players from the 2007 senior class involved with the National Football League as quarterback André Woodson (New York Giants), tight end Jacob Tamme (Indianapolis), wide receiver Keenan Burton (St. Louis) and wide receiver Steve Johnson (Buffalo) were drafted on Sunday.
Updated: 12:52 PM Behindatthebar will not run in Saturday's Kentucky Derby, paving the way for Denis of Cork to be part of the field. Todd Pletcher, who trains Behindatthebar, said Monday that after talking it over with owners Satish and Sasha Sanan, "We all thought 16 days between two races was a lot of pressure to put on a horse."
Updated: 12:05 AM Four University of Kentucky football players were selected in the National Football League Draft on Sunday. * TE Jacob Tamme, fourth round by the Indianapolis Colts (127th overall) * WR Keenan Burton, fourth round by the St. Louis Rams (128th overall) * QB Andre' Woodson, sixth round by the New York Giants (198th overall) * WR Steve Johnson, seventh round by the Buffalo Bills (224th overall)
Updated: 7:12 PM Sawyer Carroll’s two out, two-run triple in the top of the fifth inning broke a 1-1 tie, giving the No. 17 Kentucky baseball team series-securing 3-1 win over the 10th-ranked Vanderbilt Commodores, in the rubber match on Sunday afternoon in front of 2,127 fans at Charles Hawkins Field.
Updated: 5:17 PM LEXINGTON, Ky. – University of Kentucky offensive tackle Garry Williams has been named to the preseason watch list for the prestigious Outland Trophy, given to the best interior lineman in college football.
Updated: 5:31 PM Four Louisville Cardinals and four Kentucky Wildcats were taken in the NFL draft and an Eastern Kentucky Colonel also crashed the party.
Updated: 3:53 PM ... Texans take Molden, Falcons take Douglas, Colts take Tamme, and Packers take Brohm
