This will be the third year that Hunter Sallis has started for Millard North (Neb.) High School for coach Tim Cannon and he’s emerged not only as a major recruiting target for Kentucky but as one of the top players in the 2021 recruiting class.
Trigg County High School football kicked off its 2020 season with a bang Friday, defeating Ballard Memorial, 56-0.
It’s hard to imagine there could a better marquee matchup to start a high school football season than Frederick Douglass-North Hardin this Friday in Lexington.
Trigg County Head Coach Mark Peach makes his Wildcat debut on the sidelines Friday night as the team kicks off its season against Ballard Memorial.
At least new Kentucky assistant coach Bruiser Flint understands just what he’s getting into with Big Blue Nation.
Not only did Kentucky coach John Calipari and his staff get Kevin Knox Jr. prepared for the NBA, but so did Kentucky fans.
In the 20-plus years I have been doing a Sunday morning sports show on WLAP Radio in Lexington we had never had a call asking about Kentucky women’s golf. Not one.
The death last week of 20-year-old Cullan Brown obviously touched the golf world in a big way because of his immense talent on the course.
He’s been piling up preseason honors the same way he has piled up successful blocks but Kentucky senior center Drake Jackson won’t let the accolades go to his head.
Tom Payne now lives in Lansing, Michigan, and says he gets little news about Kentucky basketball, so he quickly admitted when I called him that he didn’t know a lot about the “particular agenda” to have former Kentucky basketball coach Adolph Rupp’s name removed from Rupp Arena.
No one grows up wanting to be an offensive lineman.
Cadiz’s Tristan Fitzhugh, a 7-year-old dirt bike racer, has qualified for the largest amateur motocross race in the world, the 39th Annual Monster Energy AMA Amateur National Motocross Championship, Aug. 3-8 at the historic Loretta Lynn Ranch.
From the time Kentucky started recruiting point guard Skyy Clark it was a “blessing” for the family.
She’s seen her son injure his knee and miss the 2018 season when Kentucky won 10 games and then come back to play so effectively in 2019 that he’s been named the third best returning offensive lineman in the Southeastern Conference.
LOUISVILLE — Crappie anglers from 11 states traveled to Kentucky and Barkley lakes at Paris, Tennessee Friday and Saturday to participate in the Crappie USA (CUSA) Mega Bucks event.
He’s never coached Terrence Clark, but he’s coached against the incoming Kentucky freshman guard often and Our Savior Lutheran (N.Y.) coach Peter Wehye has never failed to be impressed.
Don’t look for point guard Kennedy Chandler to be a player that will let his recruiting process drag out during his senior season.
Crappie anglers from several states will travel to the KY & Barkley Lakes at Paris, Tennessee for a Crappie USA Tournament Trail event presented by Bass Pro Shops Cabela’s. Unlike other CUSA events, the Mega Bucks anglers compete in only one division.
Just how good is recent Kentucky basketball commit Jada Walker? The point guard is a top 70 player nationally in the 2021 recruiting class but she got her first Division I scholarship from Michigan when she was in the sixth grade.
Kentucky lost some big offensive numbers off its 2020 softball team with the graduation of Alex Martens and Bailey Vicky, two of the nation’s best offensive players last season. However, signee Erin Coffel of Indiana will arrive on campus with some big numbers of her own.
His junior season he played with Spire Academy in Ohio, a team that featured guard LaMelo Ball and Rocket Watts. That left Isaiah Jackson to fill a role while Ball, who played overseas last year and should be a top five pick in the NBA draft, and Watts, who averaged 9.0 points per game at Mi…
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Mollie Kregor, director of the Mitchell Family Foundation, says it’s impossible for anyone to fully appreciate what Jenna and Matthew Mitchell do to support so many charitable efforts in Lexington and Fayette County.
Former college basketball coach and current ESPN analyst Seth Greenberg loved what Nate Sestina did for Kentucky last season and thought he was “terrific” for the Cats on the court and in the locker room.
Crappie anglers from several states will travel to the Kentucky and Barkley Lakes at Paris, Tennessee for a Crappie USA Tournament Trail event presented by Bass Pro Shops Cabela’s. Unlike other CUSA events, the Mega Bucks anglers compete in only one division.
It’s not like Macey Blevins had to love basketball but it certainly was easy for her to do so.
Now that Kentucky failed to land Purdue graduate transfer Matt Haarms to fill the void at center it has on the 2020-21 roster, one name that keeps being mentioned as a possible solution is 6-11 Moussa Cisse of Lausanne Collegiate School of Memphis.
Most players come to Kentucky to play basketball hoping to win a national championship. Walk-on guard Isaac DeGregorio has the same dream for next season when he joins the one Wildcats but unlike his other teammates, he already has a UK national championship ring.
Trigg County Senior defensive end Trevor Lewis signed his National Letter of Intent on April 10 to play football for the Campbellsville University Tigers. Because of the COVID-19 outbreak, Lewis had to sign at his home. Lewis was originally committed to MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Ill…
She might be more than just a little bit biased, but Keely Willis says the perception of her husband, former Kentucky basketball player Derek Willis, took a dramatic shift during his second professional season in Germany.
The Trigg County Schools Athletic Department honored the 2020 senior athletes in spring sports on Thursday by turning on the stadium lights at the football, baseball and softball fields for two minutes and 20 seconds.
He didn’t get a chance to play in a game but that doesn’t mean Dontaie Allen was unhappy with his freshman season at Kentucky under John Calipari.
Early in his coaching career, during his time at Hancock County, Mark Peach brought his squad to Perdue Field to take on the Wildcats.
One thing Somerset quarterback Kaiya Sheron immediately liked about Kentucky quarterback coach Darin Hinshaw was his honesty — even if it might not have been exactly what he wanted to hear.
When the Kentucky High School Athletic Association issued a mandatory dead period for sports in the spring in an attempt to prevent the spread of COVID-19, it didn’t take away from all the work the areas baseball, softball and track & field coaches had put in.
It might be hard to believe considering Landon Young’s size — 6-foot-7, 320 pounds — that anyone would not know he’s a football player but Haleigh Johnson says she did not know when she met him in class at the University of Kentucky. “My friend knew him. It’s usually easy to spot a UK athlet…
Having the opportunity to play professional basketball in Italy was an experience that former Kentucky basketball star Maci Morris knew would be unlike anything she had done before.
The last couple of days have definitely not gone the way I had expected them to, so I’m going to attempt to put some of my thoughts on paper.
Trigg County High School will be on the search for a new head football coach this offseason, as Coby Lewis stepped down from his position March 9.
He might be struggling with his shooting and turnovers. He might have even had confrontations with both coach John Calipari and teammate Nick Richards during UK’s loss to Tennessee that apparently led to him missing last week’s win at Florida.
Trigg County needed to really keep the game in the half-court if it wanted to walk out of Christian County High School on Friday night with an upset win over Henderson County girls’ Second Region Championship game. The Lady Colonels had other plans.
EDDYVILLE — Four years ago, the Trigg County Lady Wildcats won just six games but Thursday, they did something that’s never been done in program history.
Trigg County’s Elijah Gaines’ senior season was over before it really even started on the soccer field as a knee injury derailed his final season as a Wildcat.
Since he grew up up in Columbus, Ohio, Kalil Branham’s dream was to play football in the Big Ten and he originally committed to Michigan. However, he later had a change of heart and the talented receiver signed with Kentucky.
She’s a top 10 national recruit and has participated in USA Basketball events. However, Kentucky signee Treasure Hunt always had one other dream.
After Joey Gatewood decided he was leaving Auburn and put his name into the transfer portal, he got a call from Kentucky recruiting coordinator Vince Marrow urging him to make a visit to Kentucky.
Even before Colin Stevens stepped on the mat for the last time at the Kentucky High School Athletic Association State Wrestling Championships in Lexington, he’d already set a new school record.
For some, sports are just something someone does to pass the time. But for others, sports can mean just a little bit more.
On the wall in Trigg County’s field house is a list of every player that has played college football for the last couple of decades.
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