Sports

After the deaths of a dozen horses at Churchill Downs in less than a month, the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority – or HISA – is holding an emergency summit at HISA headquarters in Lexington.

An iconic member of Racer Nation is stepping down after more than 32 years.

Memphis star guard Ja Morant says he obviously made a terrible decision and many mistakes.

Some of Kentucky's top young basketball players were recognized with annual honorifics over the weekend.

A western Kentucky city devastated by a deadly EF-4 tornado nearly one year ago has a reason to cheer this week as the Mayfield High School football team makes its bid for a state title.

Plans for a $42 million sports complex in far western Kentucky advanced Wednesday as local officials signed an interlocal agreement at the Paducah-McCracken County Convention & Expo Center.

A release Thursday announced that McCracken County Judge-Executive Craig Clymer and Paducah Mayor George Bray had preliminarily okayed the interlocal agreement between the two local governments to move forward with a $42 million sports complex, which has been in the works since 2019.

The Murray State University athletics program has a new captain – Nico Yantko. Yantko was tapped as MSU’s athletics director in a release Monday and introduced at a public event at the CFSB Center on campus Tuesday.

Murray State President Bob Jackson has tapped Matt Kelly to be the university’s interim director of athletics.

Murray State University athletics director Kevin Saal is moving back to his native Kansas, where he’ll serve as athletics director for the Wichita State University Shockers. Wichita State president Rick Muma announced Saal’s hiring during a press conference Wednesday.