Prep Sports Report: High schools fill coaching vacancies with candidates who have connections
By Terry Boehmker NKyTribune sports reporter When you apply for a basketball head coaching job, it’s always good to have…
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Spring practice is important first step for everybody involved with St. Henry’s first football team
By Terry Boehmker NKyTribune sports reporter The last thing St. Henry High School principal Grant Brannen did before heading home…
New NKU women’s hoops Coach Hans flips script going into detail on how he wants plot to play out
By Dan Weber NKyTribune sports reporter Just the way it should have ended – or maybe begun. With Jeff Hans…
NKU, Thomas More announce NKU’s hiring of Jeff Hans as head women’s basketball coach
Northern Kentucky University and Thomas More University made separate announcements about the selection of TMU’s womens basketball coach Jeff Hans…
Boston Marathon veteran also trains young runners for Beechwood teams that have won state titles
By Terry Boehmker NKyTribune sports reporter One of the 25,000-plus finishers in last week’s 127th Boston Marathon was a 51-year-old…
Prep Sports Report: Cooper football player becomes third family member recruited by major college team
By Terry Boehmker NKyTribune sports reporter Austin Alexander, a two-way starter on the Cooper football team that was Class 5A…
Kentucky freshman Reed Sheppard ‘going all-in,’ dives into NBA Draft as projected lottery pick
By Keith Taylor Kentucky Today Reed Sheppard is ready to pursue his next dream. The Kentucky freshman guard declared for…
Dan Weber’s Just Sayin’: Hall of Fame inductions message clear here, new home for NKU’s Warrick
Sometimes it happens like this. No, more often than not it happens like this at the monthly Northern Kentucky Sports…
Walton-Verona advances to All “A” Classic state baseball tournament for fourth consecutive year
By Terry Boehmker NKyTribune sports reporter Walton-Verona earned a berth in the eight-team All “A” Classic state baseball tournament for…
Jamie Vaught: Mark Pope may not have been ‘blue blood’ choice fans expected, but he has BBN excited
Thanks to Eric Musselman, the University of Kentucky has a new basketball coach. If the 59-year-old Musselman hadn’t left Arkansas…
Prep Sports Report: Scott sophomore wins first individual state championship in archery by one point
By Terry Boehmker NKyTribune sports reporter Scott sophomore Lexus Goff became the first Northern Kentucky student-athlete to win an individual…
NKU baseball still in first place in the Horizon but beautiful Sunday has one tough weather issue
By Dan Weber NKyTribune sports reporter It doesn’t get much better than this. Parents, girlfriends, doggies, country music, tailgaters, even…
Keith Taylor: Mark Pope’s return to University of Kentucky like a family reunion for Big Blue Nation
Mark Pope left Kentucky as a player and returned as coach and it was like a family reunion Sunday at…
Former Kentucky coach Rick Pitino says Mark Pope will lead Wildcats to ‘greatness’
By Keith Taylor Kentucky Today Rick Pitino is all in on new Kentucky coach Mark Pope and gave his former…
Dan Weber’s Just Sayin’: New at TMU softball this weekend, honors still coming for top NKy hoopsters
Joining the Thomas More baseball team’s minor league spring stadium with a state-of-the-art complex of its own, the Saints softball…
Mark Pope returns to the ‘pinnacle,’ hired as new men’s basketball coach at University of Kentucky
By Keith Taylor Kentucky Today Kentucky turned to one of its own to coach the Wildcats. Mark Pope, a former…
Brigham Young’s Mark Pope appears to be choice as next men’s basketball coach at Kentucky
By Keith Taylor Kentucky Today Kentucky’s search for a new basketball coach took a surprising turn Thursday night with Mark…
Drew, Hurley out of running for UK Job, so where does the Kentucky coaching search go from here?
By Keith Taylor Kentucky Today Kentucky’s search for a new basketball coach had a couple of misses on Thursday. Scott…
Prep Sports Report: Point guard on Cooper boys basketball team confirms his transfer to Newport
By Terry Boehmker NKyTribune sports reporter It looks like two of the top point guards in 9th Region boys basketball…
UK’s next basketball coach may be Baylor’s Scott Drew — but the potential list is a long one
By Keith Taylor Kentucky Today Kentucky’s search for a new men’s basketball coach has begun and a list of candidates…
UK coach John Calipari resigns after 15 seasons, says it’s ‘time for another voice’ to lead Wildcats
By Keith Taylor Kentucky Today The John Calipari era is over at Kentucky. Calipari announced his resignation in a video…
Dan Weber’s Just Sayin’: Time for NKU to get women’s hoops right, and the answer’s right here
Time for women’s college basketball in Northern Kentucky – NKU specifically — to get with the times of a sport…