Updated: 9:14 PM LEXINGTON, KY (April 26, 2013) – Owners Ken and Sarah Ramsey reached another milestone during Keeneland’s 16-day spring meet when their Dark Cove captured the 28th running of the $150,000 Elkhorn Stakes (G2) before 19,216 fans on closing day. With the victory, the Ramseys recorded their eighth graded stakes win at the track and received a gold tray that is part of Keeneland’s signature graded stakes trophy program.
Updated: 11:24 AM Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino has followed through with his promise to get a tattoo if his Cardinals won the national championship.
Updated: 10:54 PM The Bengals selected a tight end in the first round of the NFL draft for the second time in four years, getting Notre Dame's Tyler Eifert with the 21st overall pick on Thursday.
Updated: 7:17 PM LEXINGTON, Ky. – Despite his dominating performance during the Keeneland spring meet, jockey Joel Rosario was overlooked by handicappers and rode 18-1 longshot Strathnaver (GB) to win the 52nd running of the $150,000 Bewitch Stakes (G3) before 11,921 fans on Thursday. The victory was one of Rosario’s five wins on the day on which he broke the spring meet record of 32 victories set by Randy Romero in 1990.
Posted: 5:16 PM Former agriculture commissioner and University of Kentucky basketball star Richie Farmer has pleaded not guilty to charges related to his management of the state agency.
Posted: 4:13 PM Louisville coach Rick Pitino may have promised his players he'd get a tattoo after they won the national men's college basketball championship, but a television station that caught him coming out of a tattoo parlor reports he's not there yet.
Updated: 12:35 AM The 24th ranked Kentucky Wildcats will complete a season-long, seven-game road trip with a three-game series at No. 16 Ole Miss, starting on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. ET at Swayze Field. The series will resume on Friday at 7:30 p.m. ET and conclude on Saturday at 3:15 p.m. ET.
Updated: 2:20 PM UK Coach John Calipari has offered shooting guard Devin Booker a scholarship. Booker is one of the top prospects for the class of 2014.
Updated: 11:53 PM Leading jockey Joel Rosario recorded his fourth victory of the day when he rode Solid Appeal to win the featured $62,000 Pegasus Purse before a crowd of 8,122 on an unseasonably cool and windy Wednesday afternoon.
Posted: 6:01 PM The president of Northern Kentucky University says the school's fired athletic director told lawyers he spent up to $150,000 in university money for personal use and investigators have been notified.
Posted: 4:36 PM Eastern Kentucky University’s women’s golf team captured the 2013 Ohio Valley Conference Championship on Tuesday, the second title for the program and first since 1996. The Colonels will make their first-ever NCAA Championship Regional appearance May 9-11.
Posted: 4:34 PM Junior right-hander Trevor Gott, the Kentucky career and season record holder for saves, has been named one of 51 players on the mid-season National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Stopper of the Year Award, given to the top relief pitcher in college baseball, it was announced.
Posted: 4:39 PM Team President Ernie Grunfeld says the Washington Wizards have a solid foundation of young players and veterans, and the goal is to make the playoffs next season.