Posted: 4:01 PM APPLEBEE’S PARK (Lexington, KY) – The Lexington Legends have named Andy Shea as the team’s new General Manager. Shea succeeds Kevin Kulp, who stepped down from the same post to pursue other opportunities.

Posted: 12:40 AM Round Pond became the highest-priced broodmare sold at the Fasig-Tipton in more than 20 years when she brought $5.75 million Sunday at the company's Kentucky November select auction in Lexington. Sheikh Mohammed's bloodstock manager, John Ferguson, was the winning bidder for the 5-year-old daughter of Awesome Again out of the Trempolino mare Gift of Dance.

Updated: 6:00 PM Arizona coach Lute Olson is taking a leave of absence for unspecified personal reasons. In a statement issued by his public relations firm on Sunday, the 73-year-old Hall of Famer said the matter was not health related. Former Tennessee coach Kevin O'Neill will coach Arizona on an interim basis.

Posted: 3:09 PM After falling out of the AP Top 25 football poll last week, the Wildcats re-enter the poll this week. See where the Cats land.

Posted: 11:31 PM Freshman Patrick Patterson scored 17 points and had a perfect shooting night to help No. 20 Kentucky tune up with a 82-63 exhibition victory over Seattle on Saturday night.

Posted: 2:55 PM The first AP women's basketball poll is out. Matthew Mitchell's squad picks up a vote in this week's poll.

Posted: 11:15 AM LEXINGTON, Ky. – The Matthew Mitchell era began Thursday in Memorial Coliseum in front of 2,119 fans as the Wildcats used an in-your-face pressure defense to force 30 turnovers and defeat NCAA Division II foe Kentucky Wesleyan 83-61 in their first exhibition game.

Posted: 11:08 AM LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Breeders' Cup Classic winner Curlin has more than 400 new owners. A state judge has given the plaintiffs, in a lawsuit against three lawyers, the right to claim part ownership of the 3-year-old colt who has earned more than $5.1 million on the track.

Posted: 10:46 AM Cincinnati Bengals running back Rudi Johnson is practicing with the team again. Johnson had his second full practice in two days yesterday.

Posted: 10:44 AM Two Kentucky women's basketball players have been named to the preseason All-Southeastern Conference team.

Updated: 9:57 PM Four Wildcats scored in double figures led by Samantha Mahoney's 13 points as Kentucky cruised past Kentucky Wesleyan 83-61 at Memorial Coliseum Thursday night.

Posted: 5:43 PM CINCINNATI (AP) - The Cincinnati Bengals had both of their running backs at practice today. Rudi Johnson went through his second full practice in two days. Johnson missed most of the last four games with a strained hamstring, but is expected to play Sunday in Buffalo. Kenny Watson also went through a full practice today. He was cleared to return after suffering a mild concussion last Sunday. Watson filled in while Johnson was hurt. The Bengals are 2-5 heading into a game they must win to preserve any hope of making the playoffs. (Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

Posted: 5:09 PM LEXINGTON, Ky. – Seniors Sarah Elliott (McKee, Ky.) and Samantha Mahoney (Detroit) were named to the preseason All-SEC team as selected by league coaches and announced by the conference office Thursday. The league coaches also picked Kentucky to finish sixth in the standings.

Posted: 4:33 PM LEXINGTON, Ky. – Kentucky honors its 1958 national championship basketball team, and the team it faced in the finals that year, Saturday night when the Wildcats host Seattle in an exhibition game.

Posted: 2:46 PM BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The Southeastern Conference maintains its strong presence in the NBA for the 2007-2008 season as 41 former players are on 21 of the 30 NBA teams on the opening day's rosters. Nine of the 12 SEC schools have former standouts holding roster spots at the beginning of the league's 62nd season.

Updated: 2:14 PM The Kentucky women’s basketball team opens the Matthew Mitchell era on Thursday when it plays host to NCAA Division II foe Kentucky Wesleyan in the first of two exhibition contests in Memorial Coliseum. Tip-off between the Wildcats and Panthers is set for 7 p.m. EDT and the game will be carried live on the Big Blue Sports Network (radio) with Neil Price. The game will be open to the public free of charge with seating on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Updated: 5:44 AM Billy Gillispie took the court as Kentucky's coach for the first time Wednesday night and, if one exhibition game is any indication, he's making good on his promise to turn up the tempo.

Posted: 2:19 PM BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- The Southeastern Conference unveiled its fourth annual men's basketball coaches preseason All-SEC first and second teams, Wednesday, to tip off another great season of SEC men's basketball.

Updated: 2:20 PM Former Huntington High basketball standout Patrick Patterson was close friends with two Highlander football players who died in an accident on their way back from an end-of-school trip from Florida.

Posted: 6:23 PM Wildcat pitcher Scott Green has been tabbed the 12th best college baseball prospect.

Updated: 5:54 PM UK loses its starting safety for the remainder of the season.

Posted: 9:45 PM CALGARY, Alberta -- Former Kentucky Thoroughblades netminder Miikka Kiprusoff agreed to a $35-million, six-year extension with the Flames on Monday that will keep the star goalie in Calgary through the 2013-14 season.

Posted: 9:39 PM LEXINGTON, Ky. – André Woodson has been named a semifinalist for the Davey O’Brien National Quarterback Award as announced Monday.

Updated: 4:07 PM EUGENE – Rich Brooks, who led the University of Oregon to the 1995 Rose Bowl in addition to laying the foundation for the football program’s most successful era in school history, highlights a quintet of individual standouts who will be inducted as part of the school’s 16th class into the university’s Athletics Hall of Fame during festivities spanning the weekend of Nov. 2-3.

Updated: 8:48 PM The latest BCS Standings came out Sunday night and the Kentucky Wildcats are no longer ranked.