TeleFund 2010 continues tonight. We’re on the air with our twice-yearly fund-raising drive through Sunday evening. I hope you’re enjoying some of the special programs, like the Thoroughbred documentary and those wonderful entertainers from across the pond, Celtic Woman.
Welcome to all of the high school basketball fans that have arrived in Lexington for the state high school tournament. Have a safe and fun time. If you enjoy reading about basketball, there are a couple of recommendations I’d like to pass along. Jock, A Coach’s Story by Stuart Warner is just out and creating a lot of talk around round-ball circles. Jock Sutherland is usually a fixture at the high school tournament. Sutherland became one of the most successful and respected coaches in Kentucky. As an Alabama assistant coach under C.M. Newton, he was instrumental in the integration of college sports when he recruited the first black to play a varsity sport for the University of Alabama.
The second piece was written by former Courier-Journal columnist Bob Hill who wrote a great column in last Sunday’s C-J. Bob explains why basketball matters so much to many of us in Indiana and Kentucky. Bob’s a terrific writer. He was always funny and made you think at the same time. Bob played ball at Rice in Houston.
Finally, March is colon cancer month across the nation. Last Friday, I had the honor of sitting down with Dr. Whitney Jones, who founded the Colon Cancer Prevention Project in Kentucky for an upcoming One to One conversation which will air in April. In Frankfort yesterday, the House passed a bill to help Kentuckians who have no health insurance pay for colon cancer screenings. In our interview, Dr. Jones stressed that colon cancer is one of the most preventable and treatable cancers when detected early.
I’ll have more on Dr. Jones and his work before the One to One program is televised on Sunday, April 4.