Imagine having the guts to promise your hometown that you’re going to bring the hometown school it’s first national championship...and doing it.

It's been 40 years since UofL won the 1980 NCAA National Championship. Sports director Kent Taylor members of the team and their coach about the title run.

An eighth grade project for two area kids has become a huge fundraiser four years later.

Providence grad takes over Red Devils program

He's speaking out during Skin Cancer Awareness month

The 2020 Spring Meet will look and sound very different at the track because there won't be any fans, owners or media for now.

For Louisville City FC, the year 2020 was the opportunity to set new standards for fan experience.

Churchill Downs plans to move forward with plans to host their Spring Meet starting Saturday, May 16.

It was a night in March of 1993 that former Card, LaBradford Smith and the great, Michael Jordan will never forget.

Former UofL star LaBradford Smith scored a career-high 37 points against Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls. Jordan soon got his revenge.

If you were to peek into Churchill Downs on May 2, 2020, you’d see an empty track, bare stands, empty stalls on the Paddock.

WAVE 3 News coverage from the 2015 Kentucky Derby, featuring American Pharoah’s first win in his legendary Triple Crown winning run.

WAVE 3 News coverage from the 2015 Kentucky Derby, featuring American Pharoah’s first win in his legendary Triple Crown winning run.

Race announcer Larry Collmus discusses calling the Triple Crown Derby, the Kentucky Turtle Derby and the moving the Kentucky Derby to September.

Urbana University in Ohio, founded in 1850, shut its doors in April citing coronavirus stress and uncertainty.

This summer would have been the 74th playing of the tournament.

He is a familiar face to our WAVE 3 News family and when he came down with the coronavirus it really hit home. It put a face that we all know with the disease.

Like all other sporting events, baseball at Floyd County Little League is on hold, but there has been time to make some valuable changes.

Horse racing trainers are dealing with the woes of the Kentucky Derby being postponed.

Owners can’t wait to get their hands on the 14 carat solid gold trophy on Derby Day.

A campus that on most April days welcomes a fair amount of traffic is practically a ghost town these days.

We are all longing for the return of the games.

The NCAA has granted eligibility to college athletes whose spring seasons were completely canceled, according to the Associated Press.

With social distancing guidelines in place, there’s no easy way to practice team sports, but for some athletes, the grind doesn’t stop.

WAVE 3 Sports Director Kent Taylor hosts Sports Talk with Kent and Kendrick.

"Having unknown factors just kind of keeps you on the edge a little bit," a Louisville restaurant owner told WAVE 3 News.

This time of year is a college basketball fan's favorite time of year, but the coronavirus has other plans.

Watch UofL Basketball Head Coach Chris Mack and WAVE 3 News Sports Director Kent Taylor talk the latest basketball highlights and updates.

Part of stats crew for over 1,300 games

Louisville City FC's new home field will hold a big advantage for soccer fans. Team officials announced construction of the $65 million facility is complete.

Watch UofL Basketball Head Coach Chris Mack and WAVE 3 News Sports Director Kent Taylor talk the latest basketball highlights and updates.

The changes come as tracks across the country like Santa Anita have been scrutinized for their on-track deaths.

Watch UofL Basketball Head Coach Chris Mack and WAVE 3 News Sports Director Kent Taylor talk the latest basketball highlights and updates.

The Wildcats are coming off a 79-76 win at LSU on Tuesday night

The Cardinals head coach also looked back at the win over Syracuse and his decision to start freshman guard David Johnson.

The freshman guard made his first start of the season on Feb. 19 against Syracuse.