Former Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino is getting active in the transfer portal for St. John's. Pitino landed ESPN's top-ranked transfer portal prospect in former Seton Hall guard Kadary Richmond on Tuesday. REQUIRED READING:Four Louisville basketball transfer portal targets who could help Pat Kelsey's revival Richmond, who's entering his fifth season, averaged 15.1 points with seven rebounds and 5.1 assists per game last season with the Pirates en route to being a first-team All-Big East selection. "Secondly, Kadary Richmond is a player I admired so much in the Big East,"...

Travis Kelce is on the move. After a busy weekend jetting to the Kentucky Derby on Saturday and Miami on Sunday for the F1 Miami Grand Prix, the superstar Chiefs tight end, 34, was seen loading his bags into an SUV and leaving his hotel to board a private jet on Monday, May 6. Kelce looked focused and ready for his next destination as he departed the Miami hotel in gray sweatpants and a black t-shirt. The three-time Super Bowl champ topped off his travel-day look with black-and-white Nike sneakers,...

Fourteen people were arrested in connection with an alleged organized chicken-fighting event last weekend in Casey County, Kentucky State Police said. State troopers responded to a call around 12 p.m., May 5, about the event happening at a property along KY-837 in Bethelridge, about 100 miles southeast of Louisville. Once they arrived, investigators found a caged area "with seating around it for spectators, several injured chickens, and a concessions area on the property," according to a news release by KSP. Police noted in the release that Bethelridge residents Leo Harris,...

Destructive storms roared through the Plains Monday, unloading at least one deadly tornado, giant hail and hurricane-force wind gusts. As some communities pick up the pieces, new ones must prepare for the threat of strong tornadoes in the Midwest. • One dead, multiple injuries: At least one person is dead and several others are injured after a tornado tore through Oklahoma’s Osage and Washington counties Monday night, Osage County Sheriff Eddie Virden said in an on-air interview with CNN affiliate KOKI. Extensive damage occurred to dozens of homes between Barnsdall...

Single-vehicle crash causes left lane, shoulder closures on EB I-64 at Cochran Hill Tunnel Several lanes of Interstate 64 eastbound are closed following a single-vehicle crash in the area of the Cochran Hill Tunnel, according to TRIMARC, a service from the Kentucky Transportation Department. When initially reported, all lanes of the interstate were closed, but the right lane has since reopened. According to TRIMARC, the left shoulder and the left lanes are currently closed. The crash involves one vehicle and is expected to last an hour, according to TRIMARC's website....

You can now make your selection for the Tennessean's high school boys soccer regular season player of the year in the Nashville area. Vote now on who you think should capture this award based off the performance from the regular season. Here are the candidates, with stats provided by high school coaches. Jack Boring, Brentwood: The senior midfielder, who signed to play at Louisville, has 13 goals and seven assists with five game-winning goals this season. Davis Long, Franklin: The senior forward has 16 goals and 3 assists in 11...

LOUISVILLE — To find Bob Baffert during Kentucky Derby weekend, you had to exit the Churchill Downs gates a few paces and happen across the friendly man selling “Bring Back Bob” T-shirts along the nearby streets.

There on the shirts appeared an image of Baffert — or at least his famed white mane and sunglasses.

For the fourth time in history, the Valhalla Golf Club will host the PGA Championship.

The last time the PGA Championship, which begins May 16, came to Louisville was in 2014.

Here's how you can buy tickets:

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Two winning Powerball tickets — each worth $150,000 — have been claimed after they were sold at the same Paducah convenience store for the game’s April 6 drawing. Both winners, one an anonymous woman and the other veteran riverboat captain Jimmy Sharp, bought their tickets at the Quick Shop on Bridge Street, the Kentucky Lottery revealed in a news release Friday. Sharp, who has piloted a riverboat for almost 50 years, doesn’t normally play the Powerball unless the jackpot tops $100 million, he told Kentucky Lottery officials. However, enticed by...