The Kentucky High School Football Media Poll is conducted by 16 sports journalists throughout the state, with one representative for each of the 16 basketball regions in order to provide geographical balance. The poll will be released each Wednesday morning throughout the regular season. Here is the first poll of the regular season: Class 6A […]
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Cooper’s Noel commits to South Florida
The back-to-back girls basketball 9th Region Player of the Year has found her college home. Cooper senior Haylee Noel committed to South Florida, via her Instagram page on Tuesday. Noel enters her senior season with 1,685 career points as she looks to help lead Cooper to a fifth region title in the last six years. […]
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Vote for the LINK nky Team of the Week for Aug. 24-30
We enter year three of partnering up with OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine in expanding the Team of the Week awards! Through the first two years, $4,000 in scholarships have been handed out to the Team of the Season and Team of the Year award winners. In order to get to that point, it starts […]
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Big man on campus: 6-11 basketball standout Ben McKinney is at Newport
Big news out of Newport High School. The boys’ basketball program is enjoying a sizable addition with the transfer of four-star center Ben McKinney. The 6-foot-11, 195-pound Indiana and Kansas prep standout is enrolled at Newport, according to Prep Hoops Kentucky. “Newport has added Ben McKinney from Sunrise Christian in Kansas. Originally from Indiana. He […]
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Saints and Norse notes
NKU women’s soccer streak ends Northern Kentucky University’s women’s soccer team was part of history Sunday – but not the kind the Norse wanted. Morehead State handed NKU (4-1) its first loss of the season, 2-0. The Eagles beat the Norse for the first time in program history (NKU is still 8-1-1 overall) and scored […]
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Week 2 football standouts/takeaways
Each week, throughout the season, make sure to come here on Monday’s (outside of Labor Day) to check out the weekly standouts and 10 takeaways from Friday night. We’ll highlight the 200-yard passers, 100-yard rushers, 100-yard receivers, defensive standouts and kicking standouts. The criteria has changed for the defensive standout list. The minimum is at […]
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Week 2 football roundup/scores
Elder (OH) 56, Covington Catholic 20 Panthers (2-0) quarterback Kaden Estep tallied 339 passing yards and 114 rushing yards as Elder spoiled CovCath’s home opener. The Colonels (1-1) traded blows early on to get within 21-13 in the second, but Elder took over from there. Estep threw for two touchdowns and ran for another as […]
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Bluebirds roll past Cooper behind Armstrong’s four touchdowns
When Highlands football coach Bob Sphire watched Tayden Lorenzen pick off a pass and carry it 12 yards for a touchdown against Cooper on Friday, he needed only a single word to express himself. “Wow!” Sphire said. “Wow! Wow!” There were “wow” moments aplenty in the Bluebirds’ 45-6 running-clock win at David Cecil Memorial Stadium. […]
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Under-the-radar Pabst shines as Beechwood overwhelms Indian Hill
There were plenty of stars on the field Friday night when Beechwood opened its 2026 football season against Indian Hill in Fort Mitchell. There was Tyler Fryman, the senior standout and University of Kentucky football and baseball commit. On the other sideline was Indian Hill senior quarterback Devlin Daniel, a Mississippi State baseball commit and […]
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Five from NKY show up in first regular season KVCA poll
Five Northern Kentucky teams appeared on the first regular season Kentucky Volleyball Coaches Association poll, released on Wednesday. The poll will be released bi-weekly throughout the regular season and a coach must be a member of the KVCA to participate, 23 members voted in the first poll with Assumption voted the unanimous No. 1. Notre […]
