Bad jobs news for Bowling Green, Campton, Elizabethtown, Hazard, Lexington, London and Somerset, too, in fact. Could be bad for Campbellsville, or maybe Sen. McConnell will successfully intervene as he did in Olive Hill. Good from Lawrenceburg and Louisville.
Hello, Paducah. Goodbye, Glen Campbell.
I'm liking McCracken County High less and less.
ReplyDeleteJoe B this morning is interviewing Marianne Walker, who wrote When Cuba Conquered Kentucky.
ReplyDeleteOh, this is excellent. They just came back from commercial break, and Marianne Walker was already talking about the route between Mayfield and Cuba. Apparently, she and Joe B just kept talking all the way through the break.
ReplyDeleteKevin Kelly of the Kentucky Enquirer captures Union Larry A. Ryle's fun in winning the 33rd District girls' championship.
ReplyDelete"The Purchase was cut off for 100 years from the rest of the state. There was no bridge," Joe B says. Marianne Walker is so obviously pleased that Joe B has actually read her book. This is a joy.
ReplyDeleteBoys' 19th District semi: Washington County ends the first half on an 8-0 run. Bardstown opens second with 14-0 spurt. Coach James "Boo" Brewer and the defending Fifth Region-champ Tigers roll on to the district final.
ReplyDeleteOh, man ... heartbreaking story from Marianne Walker about one of the Cuba players and when they had to move from the family home, leaving behind the family dog ... wow.
ReplyDelete"It's a great story, Marianne," Joe B says, "and you tell it so well. If you've got children and want to teach them about how life can really be and what they can do about it, this is a great book. ... Recommended reading."
Mike Fields reports in the Lexington Herald-Leader that little Buckhorn box-in-one'd a high-scoring transfer from New York in upsetting big Perry County Central in the 54th District on Wednesday night. Jody Demling has in The Courier-Journal that Buckhorn's big star is lightly recruited but should be an all-stater.
ReplyDeleteMayfield's WYMC is such a less intense place in basketball season than it was back at the end of football season. We just got Shirley Ellis's larkish "Name Game," and now we've got the Doobies doing the well-adjusted "Listen to the Music."
ReplyDeleteBoth the boys' and girls' Third District tournaments (both at Graves County High) played out with the same results: Paducah Saint Mary's over Barlow Ballard Memorial, Graves County over Mayfield and Saint Mary's over Graves.
ReplyDeleteCat Stevens's resigned "Wild World."
ReplyDeleteNow we get Northside Baptist Church's midday devotional. I imagine all the WYMC DJs in Mayfield Cardinals football sweatshirts that haven't been washed in about two weeks and heading out to the parking lot to smoke cigarettes for 10 or 15 minutes. Maybe this minister can fire up these guys into believing that something matters again.
Tennessee Tech 34, Murray State 30, at the half in Cookeville ...
ReplyDeleteThe local Time-Warner office in Madisonville has been buying Racers Television Network broadcasts and showing them on one of their unused channels. The video and sound quality is totally reminiscent of watching the Illinois high-school state-tournament games on WSIL-3 out of Harrisburg down in Paducah in the mid 1970s.
ReplyDeleteMissed Murray lob followed by Golden Eagle pullup 3 in transition and now an offensive follow ... Tennessee Tech by 10 ...
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ReplyDeleteSix unanswered from the Racers (including two buckets assisted by Isaiah Canaan), and so Tennessee Tech's lead is back to the same four points it was at the half. About 16 minutes to go ...
ReplyDelete"Welcome to the OVC," says one of the Racers Television Network announcers. "Like so many conferences around the nation, it's conference games where you earn your mettle. Tough, tough, tough."
ReplyDeleteThe other RTN commentator says he was just advised by Marshall County High's athletics director that Tennessee Tech has been playing a "1-3-1 amoeba defense."
48-48, Golden Eagles, with 13:06 to play (I think--the clock on the screen is a shaking shot of one of the actual scoreboard clocks in the Tennessee Tech gym).
Check that ... the score was 48-44 at that last comment ... now it's 48-47, Golden Eagles, and Canaan is headed to the free-throw line for two shots with 12:09 to go ...
ReplyDeleteGood ... good ... Murray State, down 10 points in Cookeville just about five minutes ago, is now up, 49-48 ...
ReplyDeleteAnd now 51-48 ...
ReplyDeleteStill waiting gate report for tonight's game in the 9,280-seat Eblen Center ... near sellout, anyway ...
ReplyDelete53-48, Racers ...
53-53 suddenly ... 10:16 to go ... short break in play as officials try to quell a bit of a tussle between Murray State's and Tennessee Tech's centers ....
ReplyDelete10:02 ... Murray State, 54-53 ...
ReplyDelete55-54, Tennessee Tech, 9:18 ... and no audio ... when the RTN loses its audio and all we have is this grainy, silent footage from Cookeville, it feels like we're watching some Hal Ashby movie about the OVC ...
ReplyDeleteWhich would've been fantastic, by the way. Rest in peace, Hal Ashby.
ReplyDeleteOut of the under-8 TV timeout, we get a shot of a display in the upper deck of the Eblen Center of all the OVC logos. I'll have to say that I think EKU's is my favorite; Austin Peay State's looks like it might've been the logo for one of the banks that bought one of my banks in the last 10 years.
ReplyDelete6:28 ... Murray State , Tennessee Tech 58 ...
5:58: Tennessee Tech 58, Murray State 57 ...
ReplyDelete4:54: Murray State 61, Tennessee Tech 60 ...
ReplyDeleteRacers in double bonus but committed only three second-half fouls of their own ...
3:56: 63-30, Racers ...
ReplyDeleteOne of the interesting things going here is that the Golden Eagles have spent two second-half timeouts--one just inside of 8 minutes, one now just inside of 4. In both cases, of course, Tennessee Tech would've gotten TV timeouts with natural stoppages in play.
ReplyDeleteAttendance: 9,021 ... fifth-largest in Eblen Center history ...
ReplyDelete3:14: 65-60 ...
ReplyDeleteSilent again ...
Audio back ...
ReplyDelete2:01 ... 65-62, Racers ...
ReplyDeleteMinute to go ...TTU and MSU trade missed 3s ... then a run-out dunk for the Golden Eagles ... 65-64, Murray ...
ReplyDeleteRacers follow ... 67-64, Murray ... missed Golden Eagle 3 ... Racers fouled!
ReplyDeleteIf Hal Ashby cuts the game audio again, I think he'll fade up this Rolling Stones song.
ReplyDelete21.5 seconds to go ... Murray's center, Ed Daniel, misses his first free throw, hits the second and gives the Racers 68-64 advantage ...
ReplyDeleteRacers rebound a missed Golden Eagles 3 try .. 10.6 seconds ...
ReplyDeleteThat'll do it. The Racers avoid the Golden Eagles' trap in Cookeville. 69-64, Murray State!
ReplyDeleteGreat coverage, Eric. I was watching the last few minutes of the game on TV while talking to my dad on the phone. Excellent defense by Murray down the stretch.
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