Chapman was named Mr. Basketball as a high school senior, also earning McDonald’s All-American honors. He averaged 16 points per game as a UK freshman, and 19 points as a sophomore before declaring ...

Chapman was also troubled by the backlash he endured for spending so much time with his high school girlfriend, an African-American woman who was enrolled at Kentucky.

Released this week, "Rex Chapman: It's Hard for Me to Live with Me, A Memoir," (Simon & Schuster, $27.99) is 253 pages of sizzling self-examination, regret, hope, anger, cleansing and raw honesty ...

Chapman was one of the nation’s best high school players in 1986. He was named Kentucky’s Gatorade Player of the Year and Mr. Basketball for the state.

Ex-UK, Owensboro Apollo High School, NBA star Rex Chapman: Opioid crisis needs funding, focus. ... EVANSVILLE, Ind. — In the 1980s in Kentucky, few stars burned as brightly as Rex Chapman’s.

Rex Chapman made a memorable appearance in the 1985 King of the Bluegrass. Then a 6-4 senior at Apollo and rated one of the top high school players in the nation, he had signed with the University ...

In the 1985-86 high school season, Ford finally got to play against Chapman — Rex was a senior at Apollo High, Travis a freshman at Madisonville. “I was actually starting on varsity,” Ford said.

Chapman, now 54, was once the best high school player in his home state of Kentucky, a superstar at the University of Kentucky, the first-ever draft pick (No. 8 overall) of the expansion Charlotte ...

Rex Chapman, who starred at Owensboro Apollo High School in the 1980s, signed autographs Saturday at the State Theater in Elizabethtown, the site of the inaugural class of the Kentucky High School ...