Lexington KY UK Wildcat
Recruiters On the Prowl
UK Wildcat Coach, Billy Gillispie, said Saturday that Guard Derrick Jasper will probably transfer. Details came out that Jasper is homesick for his native Compton California. Jasper averaged 4.2 points, and 5.5 rebounds per game as a UK sophomore last season; after recovering from knee surgery. Jasper saw much of playing time with the Wildcats, and was a starting point guard for most of his two year Kentucky career. Getting hurt last season, a Compton California paper reported Jasper wanted to be closer to home, where his family could see him play more often. Jasper had really picked up his game this year; and the vacancy leaves Gillispie with another slot to fill.
Rumors are floating that the big freshman, Morakinyo Williams, is also asking for release from his scholarship. With two players "biting the dust" so to speak, Coach Billy Gillispie will be making some dust of his own on the recruiting trail.
Pikeville KY Sports Editor "Moving on Up"
In other news, a couple of staffing changes over at the Pikeville KY Appalachian News Express. Former sports director, Jerry Boggs, will be moving up to editor. Randy White will take over the sports director's chair. Both good friends of mine, I wish them all the best.
O.J. Mayo looking at then NBA
O.J. Mayo back in the news again. Mayo, supposedly received cash and benefits from a promoter after leaving high school in West Virginia. O.J. Mayo, a name most Kentucky sports fan have heard of, has been all over the eastern United Stats playing basketball. He began playing in Kentucky at Rose Hill Christian Academy. From there he went to Ohio, then returned to his native West Virginia to finish out his high school career. Mayo then went on to USC. After one year, he is going pro.
No big surprise there. There was a one-year stipulation that Mayo had to fulfill in his effort to be recruited by the NBA. Allot of colleges did not recruit Mayo, as it was known he was a "one year" and out. Apparently, Mayo has declared himself for the 2008 NBA draft.
Mayo was at one time a teammate of Patrick Patterson. O.J.Mayo began playing ball as a sixth grader for Rose Hill Christian Academy in Ashland KY. Since seventh graders can play varsity sports in the state of Kentucky, he began his varsity career dwarfing many older athletes' performance records.
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Author Charlie Pinson enjoys a variety of Kentucky sports. He attended a Kite Flying contest in Owenton KY this weekend, but is adamant kite flying is not a Kentucky sport. Charlie is a Kentucky Car Insurance and Kentucky Health Insurance Agent and a Kentucky Sportscaster.
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