If Kentucky ever approves casino gambling and Churchill gets a license, as it surely would, there would have to be a major attitude adjustment on the part of track management.

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It’s better to be lucky than good. So sometimes I bet jockeys or names. Or all the gray horses. Whatever. Serious handcappers sneer at such unscientific and unsophisticated methods.

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In other words, when UK left the field without getting to try the extra point, hundreds of thousands of dollars were changing hands.

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The Heisman goes not to the game’s best player but the most glamorous one — the one who gets the most TV exposure, magazine covers, and high-profile chitchat on ESPN’s SportsCenter.

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His career pro stats – 5.2 points and 3.6 rebounds a game – weren’t nearly as impressive as his 3.9 GPA at Georgia, where he earned a degree in microbiology.

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If the polls prove correct and Beshear whips Fletcher in the Nov. 6 election, he will inheirit a mess much like the one Brooks found when he came to UK. His first job will be to clean up the ethical and moral cesspool that the Fletcherites created, denied, defended, and covered up.

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Like the Marines storming Mount Sarabachi in World War II, the presidents need to take the athletics hill and plant the flag of academic integrity atop it.

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Is the local sports media intimidated by the nation’s No. 1 athletics director? Are they afraid of getting on his wrong side for fear of retribution and/or ostracization? If so, what does that say about their responsibility to the public and their profession?

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