Once upon a time, riverfront baseball field in Ludlow was the site for Cincinnati Reds opening day game
The Cincinnati Red Stockings played their opening game of the 1875 season at Ludlow Base Ball Grounds, the team’s first riverfront field. (Drawing by Cam Miller)
By Terry Boehmker
NKyTribune sports reporter
Opening Day is a hallowed tradition for Cincinnati Reds baseball fans. Thousands of them will flock to Great American Ballpark to watch the first game of the 2024 season in a city that’s...
Kentucky AD Mitch Barnhart puts ‘notion of no relationship’ with coach John Calipari ‘out the door’
By Keith Taylor
Kentucky Today
Kentucky athletics director Mitch Barnhart pushed aside rumors of having a poor relationship with men’s basketball coach John Calipari on Wednesday night.
“I’m not a guy who gets in coaches’ business, any of my coaches, and they’ll all tell you that,” Barnhart said in an interview with WLEX-TV and “BBN Tonight.” “We let them do their...
UK names Virginia Tech Hokies coach Kenny Brooks as next to lead Wildcats women’s basketball
By Keith Taylor
Kentucky Today
The search for a women’s basketball coach at Kentucky ended Tuesday.
Kenny Brooks, who has spent the past eight seasons at Virginia Tech, compiled an 180-82 record as coach of the Hokies and led Virginia Tech to the Final Four last season. During the 2022-23 campaign, Brooks led the Hokies to a school-record 31 wins.
Virginia Tech head coach Kenny Brooks yells to his...
So much storytelling, so little time . . . although the NKSHOF March inductions made an exception
By Dan Weber
NKyTribune sports reporter
Maybe it was bringing the Vories’ and Boswell families together. Maybe it was just Newport Day. Certainly, it was the storytelling that happened at Wednesday’s Northern Kentucky Sports Hall of Fame inductions.
And was responsible for, as Pres. Randy Marsh called it, “the record for the longest induction ever.”
Maybe it was how no families have had a longer...
Dan Weber’s Just Askin’: Who’s Rupp Arena less likely to welcome, a N. Ky. team or John Calipari?
LEXINGTON – It’s different down here. Just 80 miles south but a whole other world in so many ways.
No other way to look at it after spending a couple of days in March here. When basketball is all they’re thinking or talking about.
Some thoughts after Sweet Sixteen-ing it . . . and NCAA’ing it with UK, down Lexington way.
Only the Campbell County fans were cheering for the Camels...
Big day of racing: Endlessly wins Jeff Ruby Stakes at Turfway — on the Road to the Derby
A big day of racing at Turfway Park on the Road to the Derby, as Amerman Racing Stables’ Endlessly
made a bold move around the far turn and kicked clear in mid-stretch, dominating his 10 rivals by four lengths in Saturday’s 53rd running of the $700,000 Jeff Ruby Steaks (Grade III), the marquee race of Turfway’s season.
Endlessly, now a three-time graded stakes winner, was ridden by jockey Umberto...
Campbell County luck runs out after 13 straight as Noah’s 48 for Harlan County game turns it all around
By Dan Weber
NKyTribune sports reporter
LEXINGTON – Sometimes it happens like this. You’re playing your game. You’re confident, making the passes and the shots. Playing smart. You’re up double digits. Just one last quarter to go. Eight short minutes.
Campbell County Coach Brent Sowder consoles senior Broc Sorgenfrei after his 17-point Friday performance that earned him a spot on the all-tournament...
Prep Sports Report: Holy Cross sophomore finished season with state’s best free throw percentage
By Terry Boehmker
NKyTribune sports reporter
For the third straight year, Holy Cross had a boys basketball player finish on top in statewide statistics. Sophomore guard Luke Arlinghaus shot 91.9 percent from the free throw line to lead the state in that category.
The state’s top scorer the previous two seasons was Holy Cross guard Jacob Meyer, who averaged 38.2 points as a junior and 36.8 as...
In a Sweet 16 matchup Northern Kentucky couldn’t lose, Campbell County upsets streaking Newport
By Dan Weber
NKyTribune reporter
LEXINGTON – It doesn’t often happen like this. A guaranteed Sweet 16 winner for Northern Kentucky.Guaranteed.
In fact, it’s never happened like this – two teams from the same conference, heck the same county – facing off in a neighborhood rivalry removed to Rupp Arena for a state tournament showdown.
There’s only one problem with the guaranteed winner scenario:...
Kentucky stunned in NCAA opener for second time in three years with shocking loss to Oakland
By Keith Taylor
Kentucky Today
Tre Mitchell walked out of the locker room with with towel over his head. He was joined by Antonio Reeves as they prepared to face the media following another one-and-done appearance in the postseason.
It was another stunning early exit for Kentucky in the NCAA Tournament on Thursday night. The Wildcats, the No. 3 seed in the South Region, suffered their second opening-round...
Campbell County making first appearance in boys state tournament since 2019 against Newport
By Terry Boehmker
NKyTribune sports reporter
Campbell County boys basketball coach Brent Sowder enjoys reading about the history of professional boxing. When asked about preparing his team for a game against Newport in the first round of the “Sweet 16” state tournament, he recalled the words of a former heavyweight champion
“I think we got a plan together,” Sowder said. “But like Mike Tyson...
Kentucky’s John Calipari, Tre Mitchell, Adou Thiero celebrate homecoming ahead of NCAA opener
By Keith Taylor
Kentucky Today
A visit to Pittsburgh to open the NCAA Tournament is more than just about basketball for Kentucky coach John Calipari and players Tre Mitchell and Adou Thiero.
Calipari is a native of Moon Township, Mitchell is from Pittsburgh and Adou Thiero played at Quaker Valley High School. For Mitchell, the return to his hometown is surreal.
“It means the world to be back home...
Ninth-10th Region Sweet 16 matchup takes fans back 43 years to one that mattered most for Northern KY
By Dan Weber
NKyTribune sports reporter
Thursday’s Sweet 16 meeting between the Ninth and 10th Region champs will not be the first time it’s happened that Northern Kentucky neighbors matched up in the state tournament.
But as interesting and exciting as the Newport-Campbell County matchup will surely be, there will only be one of these all-time for me. It was the first – and last – time I ever...
Prep Sports Report: 9th Region tournaments set attendance record with big crowds last two nights
By Terry Boehmker
NKyTribune sports reporter
Large crowds at the last three games pushed the attendance total for the 9th Region boys and girls basketball tournaments to a new record, according to statistics released by Northern Kentucky athletic directors in charge of the March Madness event.
The total attendance was 23,399 for seven boys and seven girls games played at Northern Kentucky University’s...
Dan Weber’s Just Sayin’: Time for KHSAA to fix Sweet 16, the Ninth Region has had enough
Excuse us, KHSAA, but could we talk? Yeah, it’s us, the basketball folks in the Ninth Region.
And now, in between the Girls’ and Boys’ Sweet 16’s, it seems the perfect time to bring this up.
Yeah, it’s pretty important. And timely, although there’s obviously nothing you can do about it this year. But we must talk.
Although we’re not sure where to begin with the two issues that impact...
