Patrick Dragan, an assistant boys basketball coach at Cooper High School, was not only a part of the coaching staff that led the Jaguars to a 33rd District title this year, he also played on the 2014-2015 Cooper team that won the 33rd District championship. It was Jan. 22, 2015, and the Cooper Jaguars Boy’s […]
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Dan Weber’s Just Sayin’: We’re in Week 2 and the playoffs start now — and right here
Now it really counts. And matters. Week 2 of the postseason is when the KHSAA high school football playoffs really begin Friday. And as you might expect, there are lots of interesting, competitive, and not easily predicted contests. And a number of them are right here in Northern Kentucky. Start with Paintsville at Bishop Brossart […]
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Dan Weber’s Just Sayin’: Week 1 in NKY football playoffs, the week you wish wasn’t happening
Here we go, high school football fans, it’s the season in which every week could be the last, and for half of the teams, it will be. Except for the favorites, mostly. They have absolutely minimal risk of losing. They’ll be around next week, almost for certain, for those on the top side of the […]
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Dan Weber’s Just Sayin’: Mike Bankemper’s four decades as Campbell County matman honored
Really nice job by Campbell County High School last Friday night the way the school honored recently retired coach Mike Bankemper at the halftime of the Highlands game – with his family and so many of the wrestlers he’d coached in a 42-year career (40 as head coach) for the Camels’ program. But Mike wasn’t […]
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Northern Kentucky goes national again: Should 6-year-old have run 26.2-mile marathon?
It’s a Northern Kentucky story that’s everywhere right now and unlike the national coverage Covington Catholic student Nick Sandmann – a completely innocent bystander – got in 2019, this one is probably warranted. We’re talking of the running Crawford Family out of Bellevue, Ben and Kami, and their six kids including the youngest, six-year old […]
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Dan Weber’s Just Sayin’: Tough slog for young Villa Madonna, Walton-Verona softball in All ‘A’ Classic
It’s the “classic” weekend that Kentucky’s All “A” teams look forward to every spring. Eight boys’ baseball teams meet up in Richmond at EKU to decide who has the best small school baseball program. Meanwhile in Owensboro, 16 girls’ softball teams do the same in a different format. But one of these means more if […]
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Dan Weber’s Just Sayin’: Rain, rain go away, basketball stay around for a while
Hey, it’s spring and it’s still raining around here. What to do? How about extending the basketball season – Oh, and add to the artificial turf fields for baseball/softball. Yeah, that’ll do it. JUST SAYIN’. *** Speaking of artificial turf fields, we’re about to get another one in Northern Kentucky soon. Opening Day – and […]
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Dan Weber’s Just Sayin’: Lots of springtime takes here
It’s spring and around here, that means 79 degrees one day, below freezing the next. Or the day before. Or . . . OK, sounds like the former high school baseball coach in me recalling how one year we played 45 games, the next just 21. It’s still not all that easy to be a […]
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The best dressed coaches left in the NCAA tournament
Ever since my team, Kentucky, and my favorite player, Oscar, had a heartbreaking and shocking loss in the first round of the NCAA men’s tournament, I’ve been looking for another team to support. I could follow standard procedure; supporting another team from my conference, cheering for the Cinderella story but that all seems too cliché […]
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Dan Weber’s Just Sayin’: NKU does what it does in March, and goodbye Mel Webster
Here they go again. To Indianapolis. For the Horizon League’s Final Four. For the fourth straight season. And fifth time in the last six. And no, we’re not surprised. And you’re probably not surprised, even for an NKU team that started the season 6-9. And to be honest, neither were the Norse, even though the […]