When Ernie Fletcher gets to Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium for the Governor’s Cup football game between Kentucky and Louisville, the first thing he should do is look up Tom Jurich. He should ask the U of L vice-president for athletics if he could spend a week following him around and picking his brains.

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Horror becomes personal when it hits close to home, especially when home isn’t a very big place. Here in Kentucky, our tragedies are almost a family thing. At the least, many of us know somebody who knew somebody who was on Comair Flight 5191 when it took off at 6:07 a.m. Sunday from Lexington’s Blue Grass Field.

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But what made me happiest was that the State Fair doesn’t sponsor a child beauty pageant. I thought those things were sick long before the JonBenet Ramsey case. Now I know they are. In fact, I would support a movement to make beauty pageants illegal for anybody under the age of 18.

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Racing’s future depends on whether Evans and others like him can learn how to bottle the love for Barbaro or Seabiscuit and market it to an audience that yearns for heroes and uplifting stories.

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it says here that the Cats will make it close enough to send a lot of fear rippling through Papa John’s Cardinals Stadium. Heck, they might even do the shocker thing.

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The original rebels, Sinatra and Elvis, did a lot of love songs, and to my knowledge, none had lyrics that did anything but regard women with respect and esteem, even worship.

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Automobile racing found ways to capitalize on America’s fascination with cars, not to mention the people who built them and drove them.

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The better she began hitting the ball, the more she was able to lose herself in the game. It was golf as therapy and it worked.

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