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River Rat

  • RIVER RAT: I'll take the Pats

    I might be the only sports reporter you’ve ever heard of who rarely watches SportsCenter.

    About the only time I do is when I’m watching a late game and I get preoccupied with something else and forget to change the channel when it’s over. I love sports, obviously, but I refuse to let it dominate my life the way I used to. I’m just as content watching KET or History Channel or Travel Channel or something like that.

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  • RIVER RAT: I'll take NY v. NE

    Not much space or time, as I’m waaaaayyyyy past deadline, but here are my quickie picks for today’s conference championships:

    AFC: New England 34, Baltimore 10 — Because Brady’s on a mission, as you might have noted in his smiting of Tim Tebow and the Broncos last week. Plus, I can’t bear the idea of the Ratbirds going to the Super Bowl. Go Pats!

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  • RIVER RAT: I don't want to hear it

    OK, you folks have had your fun at my expense, but I’ve suffered enough.

    I just don’t want to talk about the Tebow-to-Thomas overtime gut shot delivered to my Steelers any more. I’ve put it behind me and I’m ready to move on. Preferably with Ike Taylor in a different locale and somebody else manning the cornerback position. That should be the first-round priority for the Steelers this year (or perhaps some help for an aging defensive front line).

    Anyway, here are my division round NFL playoff quick picks:

     

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  • RIVER RAT: Playoff time is here — are you still watching?

    For a lot of folks, the end of the NFL regular season and the onset of the playoffs is something of an anticlimactic thing.

    You could chalk a lot of that up to folks whose NFL interest waxes and wanes along with the fortunes of their fantasy football teams. Most fantasy leagues wrap up play before Christmas, and for many folks, once the fantasy season is over, they’re done with the NFL.

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  • RIVER RAT: Tebow Time!

    I prefer exploring column topics others aren’t writing about, as I’m not one who’s generally floating along the old mainstream. However, I can’t help it. I’m as caught up in this wacky Tim Tebow stuff as the rest of you.

    Say what you will about the guy, but he’s nothing if not compelling.

    I’m a diehard Steelers fan, but also an NFL junkie who’ll watch most whatever game is on (Monday’s Seahawks-Rams “battle” being a notable exception — couldn’t make it past halftime).

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  • RIVER RAT: Drake blossoming for top-10 'Cats

    Regular readers of the Herald-Leader in Lexington found a pleasant surprise in Thursday’s edition of the paper, where sportswriter Jennifer Smith did a feature on Samantha Drake’s bounce-back sophomore season with Kentucky.

    Drake, the record-setting hoopster from Nelson County High School, had a rough go of it adjusting to the college game her freshman season with the Wildcats. She began that season starting a handful of games and posted some promising stats, but by the end of the year her playing time had dwindled to just a few minutes per game.

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  • RIVER RAT: Tigers are motivated for Rupp return

    Bardstown was an unknown commodity last season, going in with a new coach and a roster that bore little resemblance to the region tournament team of 2010.

    The Tigers split their first four games and had a mystery about them, especially after a December road trip to Logan County resulted in a loss and an ejection and two-game suspension of James “Boo” Brewer, who was a high school legend come home to coach his alma mater.

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  • RIVER RAT: Tigers go from hunter to hunted

    Tuesday marks the beginning of the local high school basketball season, that time when fans, coaches and players get to see what all those hours spent working on plays and running laps was for.

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  • RIVER RAT: Nelson girls figure to challenge for region title

    The first basketball games of the high school season start in a week and a half, so I’ve been trying to touch base with all of our local hoops coaches this week in between naps while I try to shake off this bug that’s going around.

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  • RIVER RAT: Somebody's knocking? Nope, just bouncing basketballs

    Basketball season’s right around the corner, sort of officially/unofficially kicking off locally this week with a trio of intra-squad scrimmages to help folks warm up to the idea of bouncing orange balls again.

    Thursday night at Bardstown features Purple Madness, where the Tiger girls and boys will give fans their first look at the 2011-12 teams in the second year for this event. Things get started with the girls’ Purple and Gold game at 6:30 p.m., and the boys’ game will follow.

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