Vroom, vroom. Let’s go. The rest of Kentucky better get ready to grapple with this. Northern Kentucky high schools boast one top-ranked wrestler, three second-ranked wrestlers, one top 10 team and four top 20 teams in the latest rankings by Kentuckywrestling.com. Simon Kenton sophomore Brayden Blevins is No. 1 at 120 pounds. A trio of […]
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Norse get a tight road win over winless Detroit
Despite Detroit (0-18, 0-7) being winless on the season, it was a victory the Northern Kentucky University men’s basketball team desperately needed. The Norse had suffered back-to-back overtime losses on the road and entered their Saturday contest with the Titans at 3-3 in conference play needing to get back into the thick of the Horizon […]
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Norse drop second straight OT thriller
If the past three games are any indicator of what late February, early March is going to look like in the Horizon League, buckle up. While the Northern Kentucky University men’s basketball team has been on the wrong end of two straight overtime losses, the Norse are showing they’re right there despite losing one of […]
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Thomas More lands Governor’s School for Entrepreneurs for first time
The Kentucky Governor’s School for Entrepreneurs is returning to Northern Kentucky in 2024 – this time in a new location. Thomas More University in Crestview Hills is joining the Governor’s School for Entrepreneurs annual Summer Startup program for the first time in the program’s 10-year history. Northern Kentucky University previously hosted the summer program from […]
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NKU drops overtime battle to Cleveland State on the road
Marques Warrick did it again. Problem was, it was to tie the game and not put the Northern Kentucky University men’s basketball team ahead. Warrick’s step back 3-pointer banked in at the buzzer in regulation to tie the game with Cleveland State at 74. The Norse would go on to lose however, 88-85 in overtime […]
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NKU women falter down stretch in latest league loss
The Northern Kentucky women’s basketball team may be in a dark tunnel now as the lone winless team in Horizon League play, but there are signs things are starting to turn the corner. Northern Kentucky led a good part of the Sunday home game against Milwaukee, but faltered in the fourth quarter in a 75-67 […]
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NKU rallies from 16 down to topple Youngstown State
As Marques Warrick summed it up, “It was a tale of two halves defensively.” Youngstown State owned the first half, Northern Kentucky the second half as the Norse got the last bucket to fall in a 79-76 victory over the Penguins. It was Warrick hitting the game-winner, his 3-pointer with 43 seconds left giving the […]
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Performance Lexus RiverCenter to move due to bridge construction
A luxury car dealership in Covington is permanently relocating to Fort Wright due to imminent construction from the Brent Spence Bridge Corridor Project. Performance Lexus RiverCenter, located at 633 W. 3rd St., is moving nearly 2.5 miles southward 709 Wright’s Summit Parkway. The new facility is set to open in spring of this year, according […]
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Norse drop Horizon League road matchup at PFW
What got off to a promising start, finished with a disappointing road loss for the Northern Kentucky University men’s basketball team. The Norse (7-7, 2-1), playing their first game without Sam Vinson, who suffered a season-ending knee injury last week in a loss to Saint Mary’s, dropped their road contest with Purdue-Fort Wayne on Friday, […]
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Norse standout Vinson reportedly out for the season with ACL tear
When the Northern Kentucky University men’s basketball team returns to action Dec. 29 at Purdue-Fort Wayne, the Norse will be without starting guard Sam Vinson. Vinson, a former first-team all-state standout at Highlands High School, suffered a knee injury in last Thursday’s 92-56 Norse loss at Saint Mary’s in Moraga, California. It has since been […]
