The public address announcer for the Greenwood softball team announced Reagan Fletcher as the leadoff batter. The Greenwood baseball team’s grass was freshly trimmed and the starting gates were in place on the track.
Ryan Balick thought it would be a cool idea to engage social media with a bracket challenge of fan bases voting for mascots.
Kelsey Aikey believes the culture is what set Western Kentucky softball’s trajectory to a remarkable 2020.
A postgame solar eclipse. A Midwest League championship. Opening night.
South Laurel senior Ally Collett signed with the Western Kentucky women’s basketball team in November, but her final year of high school hasn’t gone according to plan since.
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.
Last month marked 18 years since I was first hired as a sportswriter at the Daily News.
While his prep career is still on hold, Warren Central senior guard Dre Boyd decided to lock up his future plans announcing on Instagram on Sunday that he has committed to play for John A. Logan College in Carterville, Ill.
Western Kentucky men’s basketball could have its first roster shift of the offseason.
When sports writer Elliott Pratt proposed the idea last week that each of us on the Bowling Green Daily News sports staff should recount the top five games we’ve ever covered in our careers, it sounded like a fine idea in this sports-starved time of the coronavirus.
Greenwood High School and other area schools lit up their athletic field houses for 20 minutes and 20 seconds in honor of the 2020 senior classes Wednesday night, April 8, 2020. Students were invited to drive by and honk horns in support.
After juggling many hats at Warren Central – assistant athletic director, boys’ and girls’ golf coach and girls’ basketball coach – Joe Hood has decided to lighten the load, telling the Daily News on Friday that he has stepped down as girls’ basketball coach after seven seasons.
Justin Johnson spent two weeks locked in his home in Italy before hopping on a plane for the United States.
I have no idea how many games I’ve been to in my lifetime, or even just this year – though that number, whatever it is, has unfortunately stopped growing for the time being – so I can’t name them all off the top of my head, but there are a select few that I’ll likely never forget.
The KHSAA announced on its website Thursday that the athletic dead period in response to the coronavirus pandemic originally scheduled to run through April 12 has been extended through May 1.
I’ve been blessed to see plenty of exciting games in my 10 years covering sports between my hometown in Tennessee and various places in Kentucky. Bowling Green has been home for the better part of that time since I was a student journalist at Western Kentucky University. I’ve seen my fair sh…
Prep Sports, Hot Rods & the Titans.
The area's college & pro athletes.
If recruiting is built on a strong connection between a player, coach and the program, what happens when prospect and coach can’t physically meet?
The Warren East volleyball team will have a familiar face returning to the sidelines this fall, with Sheila Yokley announced as the program’s head coach Wednesday.
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.
One of the showcase opportunities that has helped Western Kentucky send a number of players to the NFL has been a pro day.
After two seasons as South Warren’s boys’ basketball coach, Blane Embry has decided to step away from coaching.
The Bowling Green boys’ basketball team will have a new head coach on the sidelines next season with Derrick Clubb announcing Tuesday that he has resigned after three seasons at the helm.
The Western Kentucky women’s basketball team knew it had plenty of offense coming back for the 2019-20 season, with 86 percent of its scoring returning – a group that included the top five scorers from the season before.
The NCAA will permit Division I spring-sport athletes — such as baseball, softball and lacrosse players — who had their seasons shortened by the coronavirus pandemic to have an additional year of eligibility.
As Tyson Helton’s staff adapts to leading Western Kentucky’s football program virtually, he knows he can’t measure the success of a contact sport through technology and mobile apps alone.
South Warren junior Jantzen Dunn has cut his list of college choices to seven.
With high school baseball and softball still in limbo due to the global pandemic of the coronavirus, coaches and players wait to see when – or even if – the season will begin.
When the NCAA halted college sports in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, one of the early measures of goodwill was to grant student-athletes playing spring sports an extra year of eligibility.
The coronavirus pandemic canceled sports for the time being. Even college football practices have been called off.
Davion Downey was off to a torrid start at Baylor University. Luke Brown was making an impact in his first season at the University of Louisville, part of a team with national championship aspirations.
Todd Adler remembers the first special play that Anthony “Rooster” Woodard made in a Logan County football jersey – one that showed his ability and potential compared to that of most high school kids.
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.
Three years after Rick Stansbury gave Zion Harmon his first scholarship offer, the state’s highest rated recruit is choosing Western Kentucky.
This is the second story in a series profiling three area football players from the Class of 2021 who have been top targets for their teams’ quarterbacks, as well as Division I coaches.
Western Kentucky’s Clayton Bush is looking elsewhere to continue his college football career.
Western Kentucky's Taveion Hollingsworth and Jared Savage were honored Monday as NABC All-District 11 selections by the National Association of Basketball Coaches.
Opening night of the 2020-21 men’s college basketball season will include the Hilltoppers.
The ban on mass gatherings and the closure of athletic facilities between local high school and college locations are leaving athletes searching for alternatives for training and conditioning.
This is the first story in a series profiling three area football players from the Class of 2021 who have been top targets for their teams’ quarterbacks, as well as Division I coaches.Jordan Dingle had an opportunity many top-level high school football prospects don’t have – to see the recru…
The trajectory of Western Kentucky’s success in Conference USA was soaring when its athletics seasons ended last week due to the coronavirus outbreak.
The Kentucky Lions Eye Foundation announced Friday that the 2020 Mr. and Miss Basketball ceremonies have been postponed again due to the ongoing global pandemic of the coronavirus, COVID-19, with the new date to be determined.
Anglers in Kentucky often learned to fish by wading the abundant streams that course over the surface of our state. Many of these streams flow over a rocky bottom and hold substantial populations of smallmouth bass. Several streams flowing in the mountains of east Kentucky or streams powered…
The doors at E.A. Diddle Arena are locked and its halls are barren. Western Kentucky University is still open, but it’s staffed like a bad snow day no one is celebrating.
The college basketball season wrapped up early for some and came to an unexpected and abrupt end for others with the onset of the coronavirus global pandemic that effectively shut down collegiate athletics for the season.
The college basketball season wrapped up for some former area standouts, and came to an unexpected and abrupt end for others with the onset of the coronavirus global pandemic that effectively shut down collegiate athletics for the season.
