Arena football will be back in Northern Kentucky on Sunday for the first time in over a decade. The Kentucky Barrels will kick off their inaugural season in the AF1 (Arena Football One) on Sunday at Northern Kentucky University’s Truist Arena against the Michigan Arsenal at 5 p.m. Here’s what to look for: Arena Football […]
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KY-IN All-Star basketball rosters set, four from NKY
Four student-athletes from Northern Kentucky will represent the Kentucky teams at the Kentucky-Indiana high school basketball All-Star series in June. Covington Catholic’s Athens McGillis is the lone boys roster representative while Ryle’s Jaelyn Jones, Notre Dame’s Emma Holtzapfel and Simon Kenton’s Haylie Webb will represent the girls team. The two-game series starts on June 5 […]
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Pioneers ready to operate at Doc Morris Invitational
Simon Kenton baseball coach Brady Smiley was playing one of his trivia games with ballplayers one day during the offseason. It’s an activity combining aspects of preparedness and high school history in a playful format. “I’m big on the fact you have to learn how to compete before you learn how to win,” said Smiley, […]
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KY-OH All-Star game features eight from NKY
The 33rd annual Kentucky-Ohio high school All-Star basketball games set for Saturday, April 11 taking place at Thomas More will have quite a few from Northern Kentucky in it. The rosters were released last week and has three boys from NKY on the Kentucky roster and five girls from NKY on the Kentucky roster. Covington […]
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Ryle breaks the goose egg, holds off Highlands
Runs were hard to come by Thursday night at Thomas More Stadium in Florence, but one was all it took. Behind a lack of timely hitting and a lights-out pitching duel, Ryle scratched across the game’s only run and made it stand, beating Highlands 1-0 in a matchup of two of the 9th Region’s premier […]
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Cooper claims inaugural Battle of Union softball trophy
Until next softball season, a new trophy has found a home at Cooper High School The Kentucky-shaped trophy, crafted from a bourbon barrel, bears a black plate reading “Battle of Union” along with the logos of Cooper and Ryle. It commemorates the first annual Battle of Union in softball and now belongs to the Lady […]
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The Patsels, one for Cooper softball and one for Ryle, set the table for Battle of Union
The first annual Battle of Union softball game on Monday pitting Cooper High School vs. Ryle rose out of an intense neighborhood rivalry. It’s also the product of some very creative coaching and enough trash talk to make a seasoned umpire blush. But this is where the story throws a curveball early in the count. […]
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Trame steps down at St. Henry
After two seasons with the girls basketball program at St. Henry, Dan Trame has resigned as head coach of the program. Trame led the Crusaders to a 31-30 record in his two seasons, most notably ending an 18-game losing streak to Dixie Heights with a win over the Colonels in the regular season this past […]
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Some tidbits from the Sweet 16
High school basketball season is over in the Commonwealth. George Rogers Clark pulled off a feat that hadn’t been done in nearly 100 years as they pulled off the double in winning both boys and girls titles. Ashland Blazer was the last to do that…in 1928. In case you missed what happened in Lexington, here’s […]
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Cooper’s Prohaska resigns after one season
After having just two coaches from 2013-25, Cooper’s girls basketball program will be looking for their third coach in three seasons. Christian Prohaska resigned on Friday after one season with the team. She led the Lady Jaguars to a 20-9 record in her one season in Union. Prohaska came in for Justin Holthaus, who moved […]
