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LEXINGTON — Chip McDaniel led from start to finish and captured the Unbridled Tour golf event on Thursday at Boone’s Trace National Golf Club.
LEXINGTON — High schools across the state can begin meeting with their athletic teams on Monday.
Five-star defensive lineman Justin Rogers is the highest rated recruit — he’s a top 20 player nationally — that coach Mark Stoops has signed at UK, but he doesn’t want fans thinking he has a superstar mentality.
LEXINGTON — John Calipari expects things to be different, much different, when players return to campus for voluntary workouts in less than two weeks.
LEXINGTON — Former Kentucky coach Eddie Sutton died at the age of 84 on Saturday.
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.
Kentucky State’s new synthetic turf field is coming along nicely.
LEXINGTON — John Calipari will have to wait two more years to see the Queen.
LEXINGTON — John Calipari will be keeping a close eye on the NBA Draft.
Kentucky State University men's basketball coach Jamaal Jackson said he won't hold his annual basketball camp for youths.
LEXINGTON — The “Last Dance” has captivated and fulfilled the nation’s thirst for sports, and Michael Jordan’s career has been well-documented during the weekly ESPN special that ends Sunday night.
Kentucky State University junior outfielder Dom Lawson has been honored by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) for his work on the field and in the classroom.
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.
LEXINGTON — Joel Justus is gaining respect from his peers as one of the top assistant coaches in the country, and he received a a big honor Wednesday.
Kentucky State University had 22 student-athletes who finished degree requirements at the end of the spring semester.
Bill Smith, of Lawrenceburg, has been selected the KHSAA Track & Field Official of the Year.
Dustin Dawson, a 2011 Franklin County High School graduate, has graduated from Barry University with a 3.94 cumulative GPA.
Editor's Note: This article was updated with more information at 2:49 p.m. on May 11.
Western Hills senior Maddie LeCompte recently wrote a poem about all the things her older sister did as a senior, things she would miss because they were canceled this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.
LEXINGTON — Julian Tackett is hopeful a form of normalcy can be achieved in high school sports this fall.
On Friday, the day when a Georgia African American jogger would have turned 26 years old, a few local folks dedicated their workouts to the man they never met.
LOUISVILLE — At this point, with the non-sports segment of the country trying to take cautious steps toward ending the coronavirus pandemic shutdown, college football coaches — among coaches and athletes in other sports — are on a clock that is slowly but inexorably running down
It’s not like Macey Blevins had to love basketball but it certainly was easy for her to do so.
Raymond Lightfoot has been officiating high school basketball for 25 years, including two boys state tournaments and his first girls state tournament in March.
Because of the effects of the coronavirus, the Pro-Active for Life 5K, scheduled for Friday, has been changed to a virtual race.
LEXINGTON — Kentucky landed a future post player when Wake Forest junior Olivier Sarr announced plans to transfer to the school on Wednesday.
LEXINGTON — Kentucky landed a future post player when Wake Forest junior Olivier Sarr announced plans to transfer to the school on Wednesday.
The projected cost of installing synthetic turf fields at both Franklin County Schools high schools has decreased by $200,000, but district officials hope when actual bids for the project begin to come in the total price tag will be even lower.
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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.
High school spring sports were canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic, and on Thursday the KSHAA said the dead period will be extended through May 31.
Nominations are being accepted for the second class of the Franklin County High School Football Hall of Fame.
Franklin County junior Brooklynn Miles has received an offer from the University of Tennessee women's basketball team.
LEXINGTON — Calvin Taylor Jr. will be joining a couple of his former teammates after signing a free agent contact with the Pittsburgh Steelers this week.
Editor's Note: This article was updated at 10:12 p.m. to clarify Commissioner John Sower's motion was for Sower Field 1 and Sower Field 2, not the softball fields.
LEXINGTON — Mark Stoops is proceeding with caution.
LEXINGTON — Mark Stoops is proceeding with caution.
LEXINGTON — The Kentucky men’s basketball team will open the season against Kansas in the State Farm Champions Classic on Nov. 10 at the United Center in Chicago.
LEXINGTON — Las Vegas rolled the dice on Lynn Bowden Jr. Friday night.
Editor's note: This story was updated at 5:54 p.m. on April 23 to include the suspect's bond amount.
Franklin County sophomore Bennett Myers has been selected to participate in the Perfect Game Junior National Showcase, scheduled for June 6-9 in Hoover, Alabama.
Franklin County's girls basketball team has received one of the four state at-large bids for the 2021 Louisville Invitational Tournament.
Lane Colston had been a reserve world champion twice in the sport of reining.
LEXINGTON — Lynn Bowden Jr. proved he could be a college quarterback and hopes to get a shot at the next level during the NFL Draft that begins Thursday night.
One day after the announcement of the recommended closure of all schools to in-person instruction for the rest of the school year, the KHSAA has officially canceled the spring sports season and the resumption of the state basketball tournaments.
LEXINGTON — The Kentucky men’s basketball team continued reloading its roster with Rhode Island transfer Jacob Toppin.
LEXINGTON — A project to convert the University of Kentucky’s Nutter Field House to a temporary field hospital is complete.
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.
LOUISVILLE — Toughness, both mentally and physically, were at the top of coach Chris Mack's list when he went searching for graduate transfers who could provide immediate help in Louisville's depleted backcourt.
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The PGA Tour released an updated schedule on Thursday that does not include a date for the 2020 Barbasol Championship, which had been slated for July 16-19 at Champions at Keene Trace in Nicholasville.
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