For Thomas More football, winning starts at home (with seven lucky home games)
By Dan Weber NKyTribune sports reporter As the Thomas More Saints head into their second year in the Ohio-centric, demographically-…
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Dan Weber’s Just Sayin’: Week 1 award winners, UK depth-charters, NKADA inductees, pair of goodbyes
Week 1 is in the books for Northern Kentucky High School football and time for our opening game award-winners: •…
15 games get high school football off to a flying start this weekend
By Dan Weber NKyTribune reporter With out-of-region games and inter-conference matchups, and even an old rivalry or two, Week 1…
Newport’s Taylen Kinney moving on to pro prep at Atlanta’s Overtime Elite
By Dan Weber NKyTribune sports reporter It was happening, that was the word on the street. Newport junior Taylen Kinney,…
Dan Weber Just Sayin’: Sorrell Golf Outing, Todd Svoboda offer opportunities for support
What they’ve done for the past 17 years now could not be more triumphant over the tragic. Since 2008, Covington…
Dan Weber’s Just Sayin’: Football recruiting here, good and bad; TMU promotes a coach
It’s been a common complaint of high school football coaches here that Northern Kentucky has been overlooked when it comes…
Taking a quick preseason tour through Northern KY’s high school football venues
By Dan Weber NKyTribune sports reporter It’s the time of the sports year when football writers rank every sort of…
Dan Weber: Lots of football news here — college and high school — as fall gets closer
One of the cool facets of the KHSAA web site right now is that, in addition to all the regular…
An early look at what’s coming our way in the opening weekend of high school football
By Dan Weber NKyTribune sports reporter August is for practicing and playing football – and for some of us –…
Dan Weber’s Just Sayin’: When a service award keeps on serving; saluting the KHSAA, Y’alls
Named for the late Tom Fricke, the Northern Kentucky Sports Hall of Fame Service Award is special in how it…
Growing up in Northern Kentucky where you could connect to sports world’s all-time greats
By Dan Weber NKyTribune sports reporter It was the best thing about growing up in Northern Kentucky: If you wanted…
Not exactly a shutout for Northern Kentucky baseball but local teams didn’t get home once again
By Dan Weber NKyTribune sports reporter Of all the KHSAA sports, baseball is the most perplexing for Northern Kentucky. Hard…
Pitching depth, pitchers hitting, handling unexpected get Ryle to Game 2 over Carter
By Dan Weber NKyTribune sports reporter LEXINGTON – Prepare for the unexpected, his fellow Northern Kentucky high school baseball coaches…
No change for NKY’s state tournament baseball fortunes as Simon Kenton falls in first game
By Dan Weber NKyTribune sports reporter LEXINGTON – The beat goes on for Northern Kentucky in the state high school…
NKU has plenty of chances against No. 1 Tennessee in NCAA opener but Norse can’t make it happen
By Dan Weber NKyTribune reporter Against the nation’s No. 1 team in front of a record standing-room-only crowd of 6,396…
Dixie Heights does its thing against Conner, and keeps Coach Maxwell smiling in Season 41
By Dan Weber NKyTribune sports reporter Don’t ask Chris Maxwell how many times his Dixie Heights’ Colonels have made it…
After 13 years, 2 Ky. titles, CovCath basketball coach Ruthsatz resigns to focus on family businesses
By Dan Weber NKyTribune sports reporter It was the shortest, simplest of announcements Tuesday. After 13 years at Covington Catholic,…
Ryle takes care of business against St. Henry to set up 9th Region semifinal showdown vs. CovCath
By Dan Weber NKyTribune sports reporter It didn’t happen right away. But after falling behind 1-0 in the third inning…
CovCath survives late Highlands’ comeback with one of its own in wild first-round regional slugfest
By Dan Weber NKyTribune sports reporter As is often the case, there are two ways to look at this almost-impossible-to-describe…
NKU baseball in 1st NCAA Div. 1 tournament to face overall No. 1 Tennessee Friday at Knoxville
By Dan Weber NKyTribune sports reporter On Saturday in Dayton, NKU baseball coach Dizzy Peyton said the way his second-seeded…
Time wasn’t on favored CovCath’s side vs. a young Beechwood team just learning how to win big again
By Dan Weber NKyTribune sports reporter It was just a matter of time. After four innings in Tuesday’s 35th District…
Dixie Heights wins its 24th, and the 34th District, over St. Henry behind senior leaders . . . and a sophomore
By Dan WeberNKyTribune sports reporter Brach Rice is a 6-foot-3, 240-pound linebacker headed to Miami of Ohio on a football…