Scholastic Ball Report

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The Scholastic Ball Report (2002-present) is a Kentucky High School sports show produced through the facilities of WKYT. It airs at 11:30 a.m. on Saturday.

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[edit] Hosts

  • Gary Ball

Gary Ball is a broadcaster of High School sports on the radio. Ball has covered sports for 2 decades, both on the radio and on television. For several years, he was a contributing columnist for Recorder Newspapers. Together with Bill Ransdell, a former Kentucky Wildcats quarterback, they form the Radio team for the KHSAA Football Radio Networks.

  • Louis Stout

Former KHSAA commissioner. In 1994 he became the first African American to serve as the Kentucky High School Athletic Association Commissioner; the first in the nation to head a state athletic association, he had been with the association since 1971. Prior to that he was a basketball coach at the old Dunbar High School in Lexington, Kentucky (1965-67), and after school integration, he later became head basketball coach at Tates Creek High School in Lexington. Stout is the author of Shadows of the Past.

[edit] Show Segments

Highlights sponsored by Lowe's Sporting Goods and ProMatix

  • Bob Allen Motor Mall's Coach of the Week
  • McDonalds' Athlete of the Week
  • Kentucky Utilities' Commissioner's Corner
  • UK Sports Medicine Center Report

[edit] Staff

  • Director: Brack Benningfield
  • Producers: Gary Ball, Tom Vigneri
  • Graphics: Justin Webb
  • Chyron: Brack Benningfield
  • Audio: Matt Boone
  • Cameras: Jeffrey Ford, Sam Carlin, Tammy Sprague, Christine Williams, Lee Gamel, Tom Vigneri
  • Master Control: Tom Sorrell
  • Make-up: Katie Simpson

[edit] Sponsors

  • "Bob Allen Saves you More"
  • "Promatix: More Than Just A Gym"
  • "Kar Smart"
  • "Lowe's Sporting Goods"