We hope you’ve enjoyed our 50 NKY sports icons in 50 days series. As we approach the final days of it, we wanted our readers to play a part in it. By the time this vote ends, 49 of the 50 NKY sports icons will have been revealed. This is where we’re asking for your […]
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Notre Dame Academy appoints Stoll as next girls basketball coach
Notre Dame Academy has named a familiar face to the Ninth Region to be the next girls’ basketball coach of the program. The school announced George Stoll to be the next leader of the Pandas. He replaces Kes Murphy, who was not retained in June. Stoll led the Newport Central Catholic girls for six seasons […]
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Campbell County’s Beane wins KY JR Amateur
Talen Beane’s senior golf season got off to a superb start last week as he claimed the 46th Kentucky Boys Junior Amateur at Persimmon Ridge Golf Club in Louisville. The Campbell County rising senior finished with a 54-hole score of two-under par, winning in a field with 109 competitors at the start. Beane shot a […]
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Newport losing two more via the prep school route
The domino effect started August 19, 2024 when Newport boys’ basketball standout Taylen Kinney announced he was going to prep school with Overtime Elite in Atlanta. Nearly a year later, two more Newport boys’ basketball players announced they are going the prep school route as James Turner and Griffin Starks recently made their decisions public. […]
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Cincy Shoots for a Cure to feature 10 NKY teams
John Blackwell has been thinking about the idea for a while. One of Beechwood’s assistant boys basketball coaches wanted to combine his love of high school hoops and a fervent desire to raise money for cancer research. His solution: the inaugural Cincy Shoots for a Cure – a series of 20 games involving teams from […]
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CovCath names Michels as Krumpelbeck’s successor
Covington Catholic High School named John Michels on Thursday afternoon as its next head baseball coach. CovCath said in a news release that the school conducted an extensive and competitive coaching search with more than 25 candidates from across the region. Michels, a 1988 CovCath graduate, succeeds former longtime Colonels coach Bill Krumpelbeck, who concluded […]
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Before heading for Colgate, Ryle’s Lee seeks 6A atonement
Some Ryle football players and coaches might have headed out of town on vacation this week. Raiders head coach Mike Engler skedaddled to Gatlinburg, Tennessee for a few days, but senior receiver Dylan Lee went to Nevels Fitness in Newport to work out or to a nearby field to catch passes. Lee chose Colgate University, […]
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A Benke reunion in Murfreesboro? Benke twins offered by MTSU
Cooper and Griffin Benke are used to the attention. The Highlands junior defensive linemen (and identical twins) don’t mind if someone approaches them – which happens a lot because they stand 6-5 and 6-6. “A lot of people know us now, because my family’s kind of popular around Fort Thomas,” Griffin Benke said. “… They […]
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Vacation time! KHSAA dead period is here
If you’re at a beach in the southern parts of the United States over the next two weeks, you’re more than likely to run into some folks from Kentucky. For two weeks starting on June 25 at 12:01 a.m., the mandatory Kentucky High School Athletic Association dead period begins and runs through July 9 at […]
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KABC Bluegrass Summer Shootout Roundup
The biggest summer boys basketball showcase in Kentucky took place over the weekend as 144 teams came to the Lexington area to close out their summer schedules. Eight Northern Kentucky teams participated in the Kentucky Association of Basketball Coaches (KABC) Bluegrass Summer Shootout that spanned June 20-22 in and around Lexington. Campbell County, Conner, Covington […]