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     This started out to be a site for high school basketball…and the records do go back to the 1930’s.  But there is so much more:  a history of the Kentucky football playoffs, for example; and every baseball state tournament game score is here too.


     Information is centered on Madisonville, expands to Hopkins County, the 2nd region, and then the entire state.


     This is one of the most comprehensive high school sports sites this side of the KHSAA.  As you take a look, be sure to check out each page.

 

     And now, on page ten, there is a place to purchase archive recordings of play-by-play broadcasts from among hundreds of games that were played in the 1980's and 1990's.

 

     After doing play-by-play in Madisonville for 23 years, research that originally was “job-helpful” became a hobby.  I still have plenty of info to upload.  We’ll see how far I get with it.

 

     Special thanks to Bob Simmons, my sportscasting mentor and former boss.  Bob taught me game preparation, numerous do's and don'ts, and put up with my noisy enthusiasm as we broadcast the District, Region and State Tournaments together for almost twenty years.

 

     The Madisonville Messenger has been a tremendous source of information; and I spent dozens of hours in the archives of the Hopkinsville New Era...filling in blanks and adding notes.  Thanks to the many individuals who helped with personal scrapbooks, yearbooks, scores, coaches' names, team records, etc.

 

     Jim Swinford of Cynthiana did an incredible job of digging up the final pieces of the puzzle that made the baseball records complete, and he supplied much of the 10th region basketball page.  Jim Bates, Danny Perkins and the late Bob Offutt (all of Henderson) have supplied quite a bit of information; and former sportscaster Todd Griffin of the Princeton Times Leader has been a regular contributor.

 

     In the last few months, Ron Bevars and the Kentucky Association of Basketball Coaches...and 16th region historian Curtis Crye...have supplied much material.

 

     My name is Bob Mays.  If you have a correction for a gross error, a question, or a comment, please email me at broadcaster240@hotmail.com.  I would enjoy hearing from you.

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