This wasn’t your typical No. 1 vs. No. 4 seed mismatch that often defines the opening round of the KHSAA football playoffs. There was no running clock, no wave of backups playing the second half — just a fog-filled field and a much tougher battle than the bracket line implied. Cooper knew it, too. South […]
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Franklin resigns at Scott after two seasons
Scott High School will be looking for their fourth football coach since 2022. Justin Franklin resigned on Wednesday after two seasons at the helm. He went 5-15 in his two seasons in Taylor Mill. Franklin cited the distance to and from his residence and the challenges that created living in Carroll County. “At this time […]
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Final statewide media football poll: See who is ranked where headed into the playoffs
The Kentucky High School Football Media Poll is conducted by 16 sports journalists throughout the state, with one representative for each of the 16 basketball regions in order to provide geographical balance. The poll will be released each Wednesday morning throughout the regular season. This is the last poll of the season. Everything from here […]
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Forecasting the third round
Let’s have some fun. Of course coaches will tell you “we’re taking it one game at a time” and rightfully so, but we’re not. So, the way the KHSAA football playoffs works and has been explained here before, but come the third round the RPI plays a big part in setting up matchups. The bracket […]
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Week 11 prep football standouts/takeaways
We made it! The KHSAA football regular season has reached its end and it’s now a race to the first week of December at Kroger Field in Lexington. This will be the last of the prep football standouts/takeaways for the season as we shift our focus to solely on the postseason. See below from Week […]
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Community Voices: Embracing NKY’s Friday Night Lights tradition
Wes Akers is a professor of electronic media and broadcasting at Northern Kentucky University. In fall, Friday nights can only mean one thing: high school football! High school students take the field to represent their schools in the lighted gridiron. These games in the region can be traced back to 1931 at Newport High School […]
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Brotherhood and brilliance: Holy Cross caps historic 10-0 regular season
Getting bigger, faster, and stronger can be taught. Executing plays, reading defenses, and managing game situations — those come with practice. But building a bond, a sense of family that drives a team to play for one another — that can’t be coached. It has to be team-oriented. And for the Holy Cross Indians, that’s […]
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Week 11 prep football roundup/scores
With Halloween on Friday, a lot of games were moved up a day to Thursday as teams closed out their regular seasons. Here’s what happened in NKY in Week 11: THURSDAY GAMES Holy Cross 29, Bellevue 6 The Indians completed their 10-0 regular season with a road victory at Bellevue Thursday evening. Brian Ferguson ran […]
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Lloyd Memorial football: better, stronger, faster
Meet Kaleb Evans, high school quarterback for unbeaten Lloyd Memorial. A young man with three major injuries before his senior year, including a compound fracture of his left elbow suffered in May. Each time, doctors said they can rebuild him; they have the technology, they have the capability to make a Juggernaut the team’s fastest […]
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Statewide media football poll: Not much changed
The Kentucky High School Football Media Poll is conducted by 16 sports journalists throughout the state, with one representative for each of the 16 basketball regions in order to provide geographical balance. The poll will be released each Wednesday morning throughout the regular season. Next week will be the last poll of the season. Here […]
