I interrupt your Amazon Prime Day experience with the prime local sports news of the week. More >>

Both teams expect to be ranked among the top 10 nationally in the preseason. More >>

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Only 119 days until the start of college basketball season, and one analytics site is prepared with its conference predictions: More >>

It's become increasingly difficult for me to do what you do -- plunk down my money for a seat at my favorite stadium or arena and then be unable to watch a game because of the nonsense percolating around me. More >>

What I remember about Jared Lorenzen was to never take my eyes off him for 60 minutes. More >>

Kentucky guard Brad Calipari says on his verified Twitter account that he will transfer to Detroit Mercy. More >>

But thanks, NBA. No better place to begin a Monday Muse. More >>

The surest sign that college football season is getting closer arrived this week in my email file. More >>

Here’s an early look at what shape up to be the best football weekends in the area this fall. More >>

Is it college basketball season yet? More >>

Toppling the best team in the mighty Southeastern Conference and winning the national title. It could happen Tuesday or Wednesday night in this best-of-three series. More >>

There are weeks when the topics bounce off the walls in every direction. Then there is the week after the NBA Draft. More >>

The Wildcats have now had 29 first-round picks, 21 in the lottery and 38 overall draft picks, in 10 seasons under Calipari.  More >>

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — You start with mid-season chatter from NBA scouts. You move to the mock draft. You advance to the Draft Night blog. More >>

The first three picks in the 2019 NBA Draft were the three players that everybody predicted would go 1-2-3 months before the crowd settled into the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. on Thursday night. More >>

Rick Bozich is just asking for a friend. More >>

Do the college football magazines read the competitors' e-mails? More >>

It’s NBA Draft Week. I’ll open the Monday Muse with basketball. More >>

Isaac Humphries has already made one dream come true. Now, it's time for another. More >>

It's a ten-year deal valued at $86 million over the lifetime of the contract. More >>

I don’t have any information on Kevin Durant. I'm not ready to make my picks for the College World Series. I'm still processing the first batch of odds for the 2019 college football season. But I am ready to roll with the Monday Muse. More >>

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Only 85 days until September 2, and Las Vegas has spoken about the opening weekend of college football by sharing its first collection of point spreads. More >>

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — A year ago Kentucky flexed, attacked and took the game to Indiana, toppling a more talented Hoosier squad that featured Mr. Basketball Romeo Langford. More >>

WDRB's Eric Crawford suggests five changes for the better for college basketball. More >>

No matter how loudly they complain college football coaches and players love to be hated. It's what pushes them into the weight room before sunrise and keeps them there after their muscles begin to throb. More >>

John Calipari woke up one day last week and his son Brad was in the NCAA Transfer portal. More >>

The 6-foot-10-inch forward from Fort Pierce, Fla., will pull his name out of the draft and play his sophomore season with the Wildcats. More >>

The 6-foot-11-inch center went through the NBA Draft process for the first time and announced his return on social media Tuesday. More >>

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — If Michigan turned to Juwan Howard, Memphis rushed to Penny Hardaway and Georgetown hired Patrick Ewing, what former player would Louisville, Kentucky, Indiana or Western Kentucky fans recruit if those programs had a basketball coaching position open? More >>

Barnhart won't much relish the spotlight coming his way. But Kentucky's athletic director has earned it. And he deserves it. More >>

Nobody’s sweating federal or NCAA investigations. It’s all clear. More >>

It’s not Rivalry Week. It’s time for the Monday Muse. More >>

The Wildcats are one step closer to the Women's College World Series after dominating the Lexington Regional round this weekend.  More >>

This NBA Draft, the one that will unfold June 20 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., begins and ends with Zion Williamson, the guy whose college season ended one game shy of the Final Four in the NCAA Tournament. More >>

This is a week when the top NBA prospects are timed, measured, weighed and questioned about their ability to take a joke or criticism. More >>

Don't forget this essential piece of Smith's achievements: When he won the 1998 NCAA title at Kentucky, Smith became the third African-American coach to win the men's title. More >>

Kentucky is competing with Indiana and Tennessee for the considerable revenue attached to sports gaming, which became a national topic after a victory by the New Jersey Supreme Court last year. More >>

 If you’re making a list of guys who could get any college basketball job they wanted, Brad Stevens and Billy Donovan would top my list. More >>

Louisville's Jordan Nwora and a trio of Kentucky Wildcats highlight the field of local players who will attend the NBA Draft Combine in Chicago.  More >>

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- It was a historic NFL Draft for UK Football. More >>

It's time to day-dream by pulling together the early forecasts from five mock drafts and talking to NBA scouts. More >>

The Jaguars have some significant needs on offense, but Allen generally was projected to go in the top five picks. More >>

With the 2019 Draft booked in Nashville starting Thursday, it's the perfect item to load first into the Monday Muse starting gate. More >>

After reportedly trying and failing to get in the serious discussions for college openings at UNLV, UCLA and St. John’s, likely because of his dismissal at Louisville in 2017, Pitino has reportedly talked to Cavaliers’ owner Dan Gilbert about the Cleveland head coaching position. More >>

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Virginia went to the Final Four for the first time in 35 years and finally ended its season atop a ladder. More >>

Discussing four-day old Tweets is typically an air ball in the toxic world of social media. The conversation has accelerated, exploded, subsided and moved on. I'm making an exception for one of my favorite guys in college basketball. More >>

Kentucky freshman Keldon Johnson announced Wednesday morning that he will keep his name in the NBA Draft and forego his remaining college eligibility. More >>