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Dan Weber’s Just Sayin’: It’s not about the numbers, CovCath’s Krumpelbeck says, nearing No. 2 in KY wins

May 1, 2025May 2, 20250

He was working at the Ice House in Covington, his college summer job after graduating from Xavier University in 1976,…

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Mike Tussey: From the Magic of the Minors to ‘The Show’ — y’all ready?

March 26, 2025March 26, 20250

A month ago this column was telling you about the “The Transition” from Winter to Spring while moving through the…

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Mike Tussey: The guys in blue rule the game, the diamond, and the Show

July 25, 2024July 24, 20240

Turning the calendar back to 1869, historians will tell you that was the year professional baseball made the splash. The…

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Not exactly a shutout for Northern Kentucky baseball but local teams didn’t get home once again

June 18, 2024June 17, 20240

By Dan Weber NKyTribune sports reporter Of all the KHSAA sports, baseball is the most perplexing for Northern Kentucky. Hard…

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His baseball career ended, Hunter Jones is teaching now — at D-BAT instructional center in Hebron

June 13, 2024June 12, 20240

By Andy Furman NKyTribune reporter He is a teacher now. And his classroom is the batting cages at D-BAT. What’s…

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Dixie Heights does its thing against Conner, and keeps Coach Maxwell smiling in Season 41

May 30, 2024May 31, 20240

By Dan Weber NKyTribune sports reporter Don’t ask Chris Maxwell how many times his Dixie Heights’ Colonels have made it…

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Time wasn’t on favored CovCath’s side vs. a young Beechwood team just learning how to win big again

May 22, 2024May 23, 20240

By Dan Weber NKyTribune sports reporter It was just a matter of time. After four innings in Tuesday’s 35th District…

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Dixie Heights wins its 24th, and the 34th District, over St. Henry behind senior leaders . . . and a sophomore

May 21, 2024May 22, 20240

By Dan WeberNKyTribune sports reporter Brach Rice is a 6-foot-3, 240-pound linebacker headed to Miami of Ohio on a football…

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NKU REPORT: Rallying Norse finish 2nd in regular-season Horizon baseball and postseason softball

May 19, 20240

By Dan Weber NKyTribune sports reporter Having won four straight and six of their last seven to fight back into…

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Ryle’s Raiders make it happen on one final swing against CovCath in 9th Region’s top two battle

May 16, 2024May 16, 20240

By Dan Weber NKyTribune sports reporter Covington Catholic’s Colonels were one out away from their 30th win. In a game…

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Ryle uses all 31 Raiders in Reds Futures Showcase win over Campbell Co at Great American Ball Park

May 11, 2024May 13, 20240

By Dan Weber NKyTribune sports reporter They call it the Reds Futures High School Showcase with Northern Kentucky teams Campbell…

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CovCath wins again in best-vs.-best inter-region rivalry Simon Kenton says can only make them better

May 1, 2024May 2, 20240

By Dan Weber NKyTribune sports reporter Talk to the head coaches of the two winningest high school baseball teams in…

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Jamie Vaught: Recently-published sports books — Pete Rose, Rex Chapman, George Allen and more…

April 29, 2024April 30, 20240

• Déjà Blue: A Sportswriter Reflects on 41 Seasons of Kentucky Basketball by Jerry Tipton (Acclaim Press, $26.95) is a…

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BAWAC residents make their ‘pitch,’ celebrate retiring founder at Florence Y’alls baseball game

July 9, 2023July 8, 20230

By Andy Furman NKy Tribune Reporter Mark Thomas and Gregg Austing waited 50-plus years to finally make their pitch. They…

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Former University of Kentucky three-sport standout Charles ‘Cotton’ Nash passes away at 80

May 24, 20230

By Keith Taylor Kentucky Today One of Kentucky’s legends, Charles “Cotton” Nash, passed away Tuesday at the age of 80….

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Dan Weber’s Just Sayin’: Sport that’s changed most around here in the last 3 decades is in the spring

March 29, 2023March 29, 20231

When you were gone for nearly three decades — to Philadelphia, New Jersey, Chicago and Southern California — as was…

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David Justice to throw out first pitch to kick off TMU baseball April 15 vs. University of Cumberlands

March 21, 2023March 20, 20230

Thomas More University’s kickoff celebration at Thomas More Stadium starts at noon Saturday, April 15 during the Saints baseball game…

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Mike Tussey: The Cubs, a microphone and baseball Hall of Famers — and a wealth of sweet memories

March 8, 2023March 7, 20234

Growing up in the mid 20th Century was totally unlike anything that you could imagine today here in 2023. By…

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Joe Heller: The week’s news in cartoons — full color, bold brush strokes and few words

March 13, 2022March 13, 20220

                Joe Heller was the editorial cartoonist for the Green Bay Press-Gazette in…

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Billy Reed: Visit to Reds game on unbearably hot day serves as a reminder of the gift of good friendships

August 22, 2021August 21, 20212

Last Thursday I went to Cincinnati with my friends Ronnie Galloway and Paul Haydon to see the Reds play the…

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Jamie Vaught: Middlesboro pastor, baseball super fan Michael Padgett has visited 37 different ball parks

July 31, 20210

How many baseball fans have traveled all over the United States and Canada, and visited all of the major league…

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Billy Reed: Remembering Hank Aaron who was a baseball superstar and a man of grace, elegance

January 24, 2021January 23, 20210

When it was obvious that Henry Aaron was ready for baseball’s major leagues, he received contract offers from the New…

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