When winter sports return, Apollo High School will have a new head boys' basketball coach. Lexington native Mark Starns was introduced during a virtual meeting with players and families on Wednesday.
Here we are again, that time of year when maybe our house is divided or we are solely rooting for either the Cats or the Cards. Although the Kentucky/Louisville rivalry game doesn't have an official name, it has been ranked among the top rivalries in NCAA basketball history.
I remember playing basketball for the first time in 5th grade. It was scary but I think I scored 10 points. Fast forward to 2019 and meet Zoey Doolin and Madalyn Hayden, they are 4th graders on Fordsville Elementary's 6th-grade girls' team. They are teammates but there's more to their story.
In case you didn't know, the Harlem Globetrotters will be returning to the Owensboro Sportscenter on Sunday, December 15th. In honor of "World Trick Shot Day", Globetrotter Hammer Harrison attempted the first trick shot while skydiving, a slam dunk.
The one and only time I went to Rupp Arena was for a boys' state basketball game in 1991 and I was in a nosebleed section. We're talking so high the court was barely visible. Fast forward 28 years later and the home of the most storied basketball program in NCAA history is taking the sting out of the nosebleed experience.
Former Apollo standout Eli Wright has had quite the journey since his days in Owensboro. His latest stop? Western Kentucky University where he will be eligible to play this upcoming season.