Kentucky coach Mark Pope adds to staff with hire of former Baylor assistant Alvin Brooks III
By Keith Taylor
Kentucky Today
Kentucky coach Mark Pope added another member to his coaching staff on Thursday.
Former Baylor assistant coach Alvin Brooks III joined Pope’s staff after an eight-year stint as the top assistant coach at Baylor. He serve as an associate head coach under Pope at Kentucky.
Alvin Brooks III (Photo from Kentucky Today)
“Alvin Brooks is a national champion coach, three...
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 a prior connection with the high school that has the opening to fill.
Three people found that out this week when Sam Elsbernd was named boys head coach at Holmes, Trevor Steiner was named girls head coach at Newport Central Catholic and Laura Hall was named girls head coach...
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 on Tuesday was walk outside to the athletic stadium and get a glimpse of history in the making.
On the green synthetic turf field, there were 17 boys wearing bright red jerseys and white helmets going through the first day of spring practice for the first football team at...
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 as the new women’s basketball coach at NKU.
As he should be. And as Northern Kentucky – the community and the university – deserve.
Jeff Hans meets his new team (Photo by Dan Weber/NKyTribune)
NKU from Day 1 was out front in women’s sports – basketball first of all.
With the hiring...
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 as new women’s basketball coach at NKU.
NKU SELECTS JEFF HANS AS HEAD WOMEN’S BASKETBALL COACH
HIGHLAND HEIGHTS — Vice President and Director of Athletics Christina Roybal and Northern Kentucky University is excited to welcome back...
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 Fort Mitchell woman who finds the time to train middle school students in cross country and track at Beechwood Independent Schools.
Marsha Parke is a working mother who begins most of her own weekday training runs with friends well before dawn when her two children,...
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 state runner-up last season, announced his commitment with the University of North Carolina during a ceremony at the high school on Friday.
The 6-foot-3, 245-pound junior was recruited by several Division I college teams and narrowed his choices to six before his announcement....
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 the NBA Draft on Thursday and will forgo the remaining three years of his college eligibility. The recent hiring of Mark Pope, Jeff Sheppard’s teammate at Kentucky, wasn’t enough to persuade Sheppard to stay for one more season.
“I’m going all-in,”...
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 Hall of Fame inductions. As it did in April’s ceremonies this week.
A theme develops. And one after another, the new Hall of Famers’ stories make the point.
Melissa Marsh (Photo by Dan Weber/NKyTribune)
April’s theme spoke of how interconnected we all are here through...
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 the fourth consecutive year by defeating Kentucky Country Day, 12-1, in a sectional final on Wednesday at Walton-Verona.
Starting pitcher Bronson Corpus and reliever Mason Howard combined for a no-hitter in the five inning game. Corpus had five strikeouts...
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 where he coached the Razorbacks to two Elite Eight appearances as well as one Sweet Sixteen berth in five years, UK wouldn’t have a new boss.
But, as it turned out, Musselman departed the Razorback country and moved to Los Angeles where he officially was named the head...
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 state title in archery on Tuesday when she shot the highest score in a field of 295 girls at the state championships in Lexington.
Goff’s final score of 296 included 26 10-point and four 9-point targets in 30 attempts. She finished one point ahead of...
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 some picnickers on the outfield hill overlooking NKU’s Bill Aker Baseball Complex Sunday right before the first pitch at noon.
It’s going to be above 80, bright and breezy and sunny as the first-place Norse, two games in front in the Horizon League, face...
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 Rupp Arena.
The former Wildcat standout and captain of the school’s sixth national championship team was formally introduced as the school’s 23rd head coach in front of a capacity crowd that gave Pope the same kind of “Heroes’ Welcome” it gave in 1996 to those champions.
He led the crowd through...
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 player and captain a strong endorsement after he was officially named coach of the Wildcats on Friday.
Through a video posted in social media, Pitino, the former Kentucky coach now entering his second season at St. John’s, said Friday was a “very special day for the University of Kentucky.”
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