Page 14, The Estill County Tribune, August 6, 2014 Estill High Soccer Teams Hold Camps at Ky. River Park Estill County boys and again coached by Candie the boys high school soc- World Cup play. girls soccer teams have been McMaine, assisted by her cer team hosted Tyrone Tyrone retired in 2012 practicing on the fields at son, Andrew Hatton. Marshall for a training ses- and returned to his wife’s the River Park off The boys are coached by sion at the Kentucky River hometown of Lexington, Dry Ridge Road in Irvine. Tim Tipton with Greg Witt Park. Tyrone is a former Kentucky. Tyrone also Last year’s boys team as his assistant. professional soccer player coaches soccer for Blue- enjoyed their best year ever Coach McMaine’s team that played 15 seasons in grass Soccer Club. with a 14-5-3 record and a was assisted in camps by MLS for a variety of differ- Both Estill teams will be trip to the state tournament. staff from St. Catherine’s ent teams including the LA getting new competition in The girls have had their College in Springfield, who Galaxy, Colorado Rapids, the district and region from best seasons during the past came to Irvine to assist in and Seattle Sounders. Dur- all-sport rival Powell Coun- two years, 11-4-1 in 2012 practice. ing this period he won two ty who has entered the high and 12-6-1 in 2013, both Tipton and Witt made ar- MLS championships for school soccer competition times narrowly missing a rangements for a retired pro teams he played for. for the first time this year trip to the state tournament soccer player to help them He also played for his with both girls and boys as runner-up in the region. with their camp. National team of Jamaica teams. Estill opens on Au- Estill’s girls are once Last Thursday, July 31st, making 83 appearances in gust 17 with a DH at home.

ABOVE: Pro soccer player Tyrone Marshall explains some strategy to Estill’s boys. BELOW: Estill Lady Engineers soccer players have a little fun while practicing in camp.

Some of the members of the Estill County High School soccer team take a break from practice at the Ken- tucky River Park fields. Bob Watkins’ Sports In Kentucky Cordia takes a whuppin’ for Farming; Burse sets a new bar at Kentucky State Academy (Hopkinsville) of the Cordia flap. Could sites for times and parking ran afoul of the KHSAA Cordia be to Scott County arrangements. Allow me to three decades ago for High School , provide the shakedown in- Farming In. what State was formation. √ Rose Hill Christian to UK? An athletic department School (Ashland) in early Via twitter, former Ken- with a multi-million dollar 2000s, transported O.J. tucky Wildcat Jon Hood bank account that purports Mayo and Bill Walker stuck his head up from to love the most faithful pa- from which the ether of politician cor- trons in Big Blue Nation, turned out a whistle blower rectness to suggest Scott will give the ladies a tee- that led to KHSAA atten- County coach Billy Hicks shirt, lunch and three hours tion and sanction. has Farmed In players for to swoon over Calipari. All Now is Cordia’s turn. years. for $100 each. Community with raised Hicks took exception to KENTUCKY optimism, Sweet 16 aspi- Hood’s allegation with hot MAN OF YEAR? Bob Watkins ration and hopes of being words of his own. “Hood the next Little Engine that doesn’t know what he’s Raymond Burse. Quite a flurry of hot rhet- Could, discovers Rhodes talking about.” Stop the presses and oric filled the air around our and his Cinderella story is Response enough for a somebody telephone a pro- Commonwealth in recent less heroic than wannabe coach whose program re- ducer at 60 Minutes. days. Not so much Fancy Kentucky-side-of-the-bor- sides in the penthouse of his Interim president at Farm where hot air is as der Oak Hill Academy. sport, right? Wrong. Kentucky State University, plentiful as St. Jerome Par- On another level little Hicks went defensive Raymond Burse asked the ish pork and mutton bar- Cordia’s whuppin’ by KH- through a Georgetown school’s board of regents beque. More the buzz came SAA brings to mind an his- Graphic sports writer: “... for a pay cut, Frankfort’s via aftermath of Cordia toric bit from last century never picked up a phone State Journal reported re- ABOVE: Coach McMaine watches the practice at High School’s run-in with college level. Documented, to ask a kid to move in,” cently. soccer camp at Kentucky River Park. reality and KHSAA Su- Jerry Tarkanian took re- he said. “I never recruited Burse wanted a pay cut BELOW: Estill Engineers soccer players watch to go preme Court decision. cruiting short cuts when a kid in my life. Kids have from $349,869 to $259,744- on offense during practice camp. The governing body he coached at Long Beach come to me. That’s the kind a-year that will allow 24 hammered the Knott Coun- State then Las Ve- of program we have here. employees at the low end ty school: Forfeit last bas- gas and became Headache Kids want to be a part of it. of the pay scale to receive a ketball season, shut down Man for NCAA investiga- I won’t apologize for that.” pay rate increase to $10.25 boys program for a year tors. Renown for Farming Me thinks he protesteth too an hour. and fined the school near In and/or compensating much. With a coach history Logic tells us that it is $25,000. poor students and bad ac- that stretches back to south- a wise man with good vi- Reasons: Farming. tors, he would rehabilitate eastern Kentucky decades sion (Burse) who believes Teenage boys recruited (out them on court. ago, ‘Never recruited a kid he can provide for fam- of state this time) to play In his autobiography Tar- in my life,’ is very a long ily and home very well at hoops, and allegedly had kanian claimed the NCAA time. $260,000-a-year. their grades manipulated looked the other way with Hicks should have The action was neces- for eligibility purposes. big basketball programs, in stopped at the old discred- sary, Burse told the State The flap brought to mind particular Kentucky. it-my-critic standard “... Journal, because some em- a couple items. “I defended Western doesn’t know what he’s ployees were making as First, more than 100 Kentucky,” he wrote (when talking about.” little as $7.25 an hour. years ago George Santaya- the NCAA nullified the For Jon Hood, with per- CEOs at other colleges na wrote: “Those who can- Hilltoppers trip to the Fi- haps future opportunities and universities who have not remember the past are nal Four in 1971), (I said) in mind, retreated quickly trouble managing on six- condemned to repeat it,” “Kentucky did more cheat- from his Elephant-In-The- figure pay packets, Burse Left me to wonder, ing in one day than Western Room tweet. has set the bar. You’re up.

“didn’t these college edu- Kentucky did in a year. I just And so it goes. SEND MONEY DEPT. cated educators at Cordia, thought the NCAA went af- NOTE: This is the Au- especially the ball coach- ter the little guy. ... doesn’t From the John Calipari gust 6th column for Bob es, read the same history want marquee schools in Send-Me-Money Depart- Watkins. Last week’s col- they’re assigned to teach?” trouble. ment, a women’s clinic with umn was lost and did not Apparently, Rhodes and And this: “... the NCAA reach us in time for pub- those who supervise athlet- was so mad at Kentucky- ball coach comes up next lication. It is included this ics forgot or didn’t know they gave Cleveland State month at the Craft week on Page 13. about ... two more years probation.” and Memorial Coliseum. You can reach Bob Wat- √ University Heights Brings us to chapter two Ladies can check UK web kins at sprtsinky@aol.