The Northern Kentucky University volleyball team (17-12 overall, 15-3 Horizon League) concluded the regular season with two road wins earning the second seed in the Horizon League Tournament at Wright State. The Norse beat Youngstown State, 3-0 (25-21, 25-12, 25-18) on Friday. Senior hitter Reilly Briggs had 13 kills and three blocks for the Norse. […]
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Thomas More QB ties school record with five passing touchdowns
Big day Saturday in Crestview Hills as Thomas More won a football/men’s basketball double-header in a big way starting with a great finish for Saints football season with a 43-10 Mid-South Conference romp over the University of the Cumberlands. Quarterback Blaine Espinosa tied a program record with five passing touchdowns, throwing for 254 yards and […]
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Norse women’s hoops wins triple-overtime season opener
Head coach Camryn Whitaker came into the postgame press conference relieved saying she’d never been part of a game like that. The Northern Kentucky University women’s basketball team needed three overtime sessions outscoring the old Atlantic Sun foe Lipscomb Bison, 101-95 in the season opener Thursday at Truist Bank Arena. The visitors from Nashville fell […]
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37th District/10th Region Girls Hoops Preview: Battles Lie Ahead for Three Teams
The theme for this year is battles and new head coaches. Every team has a new leader on the sidelines. Albeit, one changed from one side of the Licking River to the other side. For the third time in four seasons, Calvary Christian will not field a team. The Cougars played 18 games last year […]
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Kent State overwhelms NKU in power mismatch of a season opener
Northern Kentucky tried every Power Five basketball team in America looking for a game where a veteran Norse team, picked to win the Horizon League, could move up in class. It took a while but finally Washington State said OK. Turns out NKU needn’t have tried so hard. Kent State’s Golden Flashes, picked to win […]
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Dan Weber’s Just Sayin’: Big NAIA road wins for TMU men, women
It didn’t surprise anyone out Crestview Hills way that the Thomas More women’s basketball team – defending NAIA national champions and finalists the year before – were picked No. 1 in the nation in the first NAIA poll last week. But the TMU men at No. 2? Sure, they made it to the Final Four […]
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No. 1 TMU women keep the winning ways – and plays – going in thriller
Sometimes it doesn’t really matter what you think is going to happen. Sometimes players make plays and nothing else matters. Like all that talk about Thomas More women putting pressure on themselves. Win a national championship one year, the way the Thomas More women’s basketball team did last March and then schedule a tough, physical, […]
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Tough schedule, high expectations for NKU men as they work to exorcise last year’s finish
It’s been 7-and-a-half months and it’s still the meme that won’t go away for the Northern Kentucky University men’s basketball program. “Those four to six minutes,” fourth-year coach Darrin Horn says, eyes straight ahead at a Truist Arena luncheon Thursday to introduce the latest version of the Norse. But he was thinking back to that […]
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Veteran NKU men picked to finish first in Horizon League hoops
When last we looked at them, way back on March 9, the Northern Kentucky University men’s basketball team was all but on the bus heading to their fourth NCAA Tournament in six seasons. And then it all went horribly wrong in the Horizon League championship game against Wright State. And now here they are again […]
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Dan Weber’s Just Sayin’: Hoops, more disc golf, and where to TMU?
It seems that this is the way the sports world works these days: Seasons don’t matter all that much. For example, so much of basketball happens in the summer now. As it has for Northern Kentucky’s top trio of returning players for next season. *** Start with Covington Catholic point guard Evan Ipsaro, the lone […]
