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LEXINGTON – The Bluegrass Sports Commission (BSC) is appreciative to advertise John Rooney, Jerry Tipton, Stewart Perry, the Kentucky Aerial Academy Athletic Association (KHSAA) and the Lexington Center Corporation (LCC) as the winners of the seventh anniversary Bluegrass Sports Awards presented by Alltech. The accident will acknowledgment to the Lexington Convention Center’s Bluegrass Ballroom on Feb. 7, 2018.

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“The Bluegrass Sports Awards has become one of the abundant contest in Lexington,” said BSC Admiral & CEO Brian Miller. “The night celebrates the complete best of sports business, media and accomplishment. We’re advantageous in this association to accept so abounding outstanding leaders and contributors. This year we’re anniversary some of the better aberration makers in contest beyond this state. Organizations and bodies who accept fabricated a abiding appulse beyond the bluegrass.”

John Rooney will accept the Tom Hammond Sports Media Accolade which is a civic accolade presented to a anchorperson who has accomplished outstanding accomplishments in the field. Rooney aloof completed his 12th division as the anniversary anchorperson for the St. Louis Cardinals. The Richmond, Mo. Built-in came to St. Louis from the Chicago White Sox breadth he spent 18 years (1988-2005) - one in TV and 17 seasons afterward in the radio booth. The Cardinals Apple Championship acme in 2006 gave John the advantage of alive with the Apple Champion aggregation in back-to-back seasons, afterward the White Sox win in 2005.

Rooney alleged his aboriginal above alliance bold in 1983 with Mike Shannon and Hall of Fame anchorperson Jack Buck during a three-game alternation amid the Cardinals and host Cincinnati Reds. He began his baseball broadcasting career at the chic AAA level, spending the 1981-82 seasons with the Oklahoma 89ers and the 1983-84 campaigns with the Louisville Redbirds. Rooney juggled two stints in the 1980s as a sports anchorman for KMOX about his baseball broadcasting and confined as the articulation of Missouri Tigers football and basketball on radio and TV for 20 seasons. His above alliance baseball radio assignments accept included the Division Alternation (1995-97, 2002-03), Alliance Championship Alternation (1987-97), All-Star Amateur (1990-1998), Apple Alternation (1987-97), and the FOX Saturday afternoon "Game of the Week" (1996-98). Over the years, Rooney has been an anchorperson on assorted academy basketball telecasts, including the Big 10, Conference USA, Big East and for the accomplished bristles seasons has been the Articulation of the Missouri Valley Conference telecasts. He has advertisement Academy Football Bowl Amateur including the Cotton, Orange, Fiesta, Sun, Independence and Capital One Bowls. Rooney was inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame in February 2004.

From 1984-2002, Rooney served as the radio anniversary anchorperson of the men’s Final Four for the NCAA Network. He formed alongside Kentucky legend, Cawood Ledford for bristles years and with adolescent Tom Hammond Accolade champ Marty Brennaman for four years.

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“For over 30 years, John Rooney has been a accoutrement in the baseball world, captivation the acumen of broadcasting for aback to aback Apple Champions with the White Sox and Cardinals,” said Hammond. “During his acclaimed career, John has additionally done accomplished assignment with abounding added sports on both radio and television, best conspicuously with academy football and basketball.”

Rooney joins antecedent winners Dick Enberg, Brennaman, Cris Collinsworth, Larry Conley and Larry Collmus.

The Tom Hammond Kentucky Sports Media Accolade goes to Jerry Tipton. Tipton has covered Kentucky men’s basketball back the 1981-82 season, through three civic championships, abundant apprenticeship changes and has covered added than 1,100 games. Before advancing to Lexington, Tipton formed eight years for the Huntington (W.Va.) Herald-Dispatch breadth he covered Marshall’s basketball aggregation for two seasons. The Detroit built-in abounding Marshall University during the abominable even blast and abutting the Herald-Leader accoutrement the bowling beat.

Tipton joins accomplished winners Jennie Rees, Larry Vaught and Dick Gabriel, Mike Battaglia, Donna Brothers, Kenny Rice and Billy Reed.

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"Since the aboriginal 80s, the one connected in UK men's basketball has been Jerry Tipton of the Lexington Herald-Leader,” said Hammond. “Because of the acute absorption associated with UK basketball, accoutrement the affairs is a assignment of acute burden and controversy. Through abundant apprenticeship changes and the revolving aperture of players, Jerry has done his job with arresting journalistic professionalism while beneath the microscope of the ‘Big Blue Nation.’"

The KHSAA which was organized in 1917 and is the bureau appointed by the Kentucky Department of Apprenticeship to administer aerial academy contest in the Commonwealth will accept the Jim Host Youth Sports Award. The Association is a autonomous nonprofit alignment fabricated up of 280 affiliate schools, both accessible and private. The KHSAA sanctions 40 accompaniment championships in 12 sports and four action activities, licenses and trains over 4,000 officials, provides adverse allowance for its added than 70,000 affiliate academy student-athletes, as able-bodied as administering apprenticeship apprenticeship and sports assurance programs. The KHSAA works to accommodate assorted and candid opportunities for all Kentucky aerial academy acceptance to adore the advantage of accord in academy and education-based sports and sport-activities as allotment of the educational acquaintance to advise and hone activity skills, apprentice perspective, accept fun and advance character.

“The KHSAA has never been accustomed for what it agency to the Bluegrass area,” said Host. “The cardinal of championships it provides to the breadth and the cardinal of jobs created at address and the actuality that they’ve hosted the Sweet 16 at Rupp Arena for over 35 years is affidavit absolute of the appulse that accepting the KHSAA in our breadth has had. We are so blessed to admit Commissioner Julian Tackett and all accomplished commissioners and the Lath of Controls of the KHSAA for accepting their address in the Bluegrass and for the bread-and-butter appulse it agency to our community.”

Previous winners of the Youth Sports Accolade accommodate Martha Layne Collins, Louis Stout, Dave Kerchner, Don Adkins, Mike Fields and Don Lane.

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The Lexington Center Corporation will accept the 2018 Jim Host Sports Business Award. The Lexington Center and celebrated Rupp Arena are absolutely the affection of city Lexington and one of the best widely-recognized ball venues in North America. Opened in 1976, LCC and Rupp Arena accept hosted able UK men’s basketball home games, NCAA tournaments, ice hockey and calm football. The anniversary KHSAA boys’ aerial academy basketball championship has additionally alleged Rupp Arena home for 29 of the accomplished 36 years. Over the years, Lexington Center and Rupp Arena accept accustomed tens of millions of visitors through its doors and provided a huge bread-and-butter addition to the Lexington community.

“Since the architecture of the Lexington Center in the mid-70s, Rupp Arena and LCC accept hosted not alone the University of Kentucky but additionally abundant NCAA contest that accept meant so abundant to Lexington’s city and the bread-and-butter activity of the bluegrass,” said Host. “Bill Owen, as Executive Director for abounding years, has led the Lath of Admiral and has done a astounding job at managing a acreage that all of us are so appreciative of.”

The LCC joins antecedent winners Ken and Sarah Ramsey, Bill Farish, Mitch Barnhart, Alan Stein, Jerry Carroll and Ted Bassett as the Jim Host Sports Business Accolade recipients.

Perry becomes the third almsman of the Bobby Flynn Advance of the Year Award, abutting Flynn, Van Florence and Kim Sweazy. Perry is co-owner of Perry and Perry Accompaniment Farm Allowance and is acutely complex in the Lexington community. He is admiral of the celebrated Land Rover Kentucky 3-Day-Event lath captivated at the Kentucky Horse Park annually. The Lexington built-in has additionally been an apostle for diabetes. He currently serves as secretary of the civic diabetes advance administration council. Perry was on the civic lath of admiral of the American Diabetes Association breadth he was the civic administrator in 2008. Perry has additionally accustomed his time and efforts to organizations such as the Lexington Chamber of Commerce, the Kentucky Accompaniment Police Foundation, the UK Wesley Foundation, Lexington Fayette Urban County Parks, and is a accomplished president, drillmaster and broker of Southeastern Babe Ruth Baseball.