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Kentucky Afield Outdoors: Summer archery checklist
FRANKFORT - June is the halfway point on the calendar and is highlighted by the longest day of the year: the official start of summer on Friday, June 21 this year. For Kentucky’s 90,000 plus archery deer hunters, the Summer Solstice seems to trigger another seasonal phenomenon - the need to get ready for the upcoming hunting season. Kentucky’s 136-day archery deer season opens in late summer, this year 15 days before the first day of fall...
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FRANKFORT - Registration for the annual Kentucky Becoming an Outdoors-Woman (BOW) workshop in September is now open
FRANKFORT - Registration for the annual Kentucky Becoming an Outdoors-Woman (BOW) workshop in September is now open. The weekend program is designed for women 18 and older who want to learn more about the outdoors and develop skills related to the hunting, fishing and boating pastimes. The event is being held Sept. 20-22 at the 4-H Leadership Center on Lake Cumberland in Jabez. BOW is sponsored by the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlif...
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Coleman signs with UPike golf program
PIKEVILLE – Pike County Central product Nathan Coleman has signed a scholarship agreement to play golf at the University of Pikeville. Nathan is flanked by his parents. Behind him are his high school coach, Clay Campbell, his brother, and Kevin Auton, the coach at UPike.
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Mid-South Conference honors announced at summer meetings
CAMPBELLSVILLE - Lindsey Wilson College and three individuals associated with the Mid-South Conference were honored on Wednesday at the conference’s annual summer meeting at the Winters Dining Hall on the Campbellsville University campus. Lindsey Wilson officially received the Mid-South President’s Cup after the Blue Raiders won the school’s third all-sports competition following the play during the 2012-13 academic year. “Lindsey Wilson ...
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Magoffin County High School to be honored at NFHS Summer Meeting
The 94th annual National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) Summer Meeting will take place June 23-27 in Denver, Colo., during which time longtime Kentucky official Jerry Kimmel will be inducted into the NFHS Hall of Fame while Logan County and Magoffin County High Schools will be awarded the 2013 “National High School Spirit of Sport Award.” Kimmel, who will be inducted into the NFHS Hall of Fame as part of its Class of 20...
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All MSU teams exceed APR standards
MOREHEAD - All 16 Morehead State University athletic teams have again reached the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s multi-year Academic Progress Rate (APR) threshold of 900. The NCAA’s latest study covers the 2008-09, 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2011-12 school years. The Morehead State volleyball, women’s tennis and women’s track and field programs each garnered a 1,000 during all four years included in the cohort, while men’s tennis, wom...
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Football: MSU announces 16 offensive signees
MOREHEAD - The Morehead State University football program has added 16 student-athletes on offense for the 2013 season. The list includes eight linemen, three quarterbacks, two running backs, two wide receivers and one tight end. “We are very excited about all of the student-athletes in our 2013 recruiting class,” said Rob Tenyer, who begins his first season as head coach after 12 years as an MSU assistant. “We’ve had a lot of offensive suc...
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Mike Slone Next Level Academy open to area basketball players
PRESTONSBURG - Floyd County native Mike Slone is currently accepting area basketball players for the Mike Slone Next Level Academy. Slone, who played both on the college and professional levels prior to beginning his coaching career, will offer basketball instruction in Floyd County for $25 per hour. Slone is set to be officially introduced as a new assistant coach on the Penn State New Kensington coaching staff. Previously, Slone was an as...
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EKU fares well in latest NCAA APR Report
RICHMOND – The Eastern Kentucky University Department of Athletics boasted several quality rankings in the Academic Progress Rate (APR) report released Tuesday by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The multi-year report is based on data submitted by every NCAA Division I institution for the 2008-09, 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2011-12 academic years. Twelve of EKU’s 17 varsity sport programs (baseball, men’s basketball, men’s cro...
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Temporary rainbow trout regulations removed on Cumberland River below Wolf Creek Dam
FRANKFORT - The emergency trout regulations on the Cumberland River below Wolf Creek Dam will be eliminated June 15. The temporary regulations on Cumberland went into effect in September, 2009, in which anglers could keep an additional five rainbow trout daily. The drawdown of Lake Cumberland and its subsequent creation of high water temperatures in the Cumberland River prompted the implementation of the emergency regulations nearly four ...
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UK Athletics: Newman Baker named Senior Associate AD for Compliance
LEXINGTON – Rachel Newman Baker, who serves as the NCAA managing director of enforcement for development and investigations, has been named the senior associate athletics director for compliance at the University of Kentucky, UK Athletics Director Mitch Barnhart announced Tuesday. She will officially begin her duties on July 8, 2013. “As college athletics continues to change, it is important that we support and protect our coaches, student-...
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Youth camp featuring former NFL players set for Saturday
PRESTONSBURG - Area youth football players will have an opportunity to receive instruction from multiple NFL veterans during a youth football camp this weekend. Former Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver/kick returner Glenn Holt will host the Highest Level Football Camp at Prestonsburg High School on Saturday from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. The youth football camp is for players ages 5-18. Holt ranks as the second-leading kick returner in Bengals history. ...
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Eagles add second transfer from LSU
MOREHEAD - Corban Collins, who spent the 2012-13 season at LSU, has signed an athletic scholarship agreement with the Morehead State University men’s basketball program. He will sit out in 2013-14 and have three years of eligibility beginning with the 2014-15 campaign. Collins, a 6-foot-3 combo guard, played in 27 games for the Southeastern Conference Tigers as a freshman. He averaged 2.6 points and shot 46 percent from three-point range in...
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Kentucky Presidents Cup: Porter, Burchett help regional team to runner-up finish
PRESTONSBURG - A pair of local girls’ high school soccer players helped a regional team to the championship game of the 2013 Kentucky Presidents Cup tournament, which took place at the Bardstown Sports Park in Bardstown over the weekend of May 31. Prestonsburg High School incoming junior Katie Porter and incoming freshman Carly Burchett both played for the FC of Kentucky Renegades, a regional select team comprised of girls from East Carter, A...
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Bluegrass State Games open to Floyd County athletes
PRESTONSBURG - Athletes from Floyd County and other counties throughout the state are eligible to participate in the 2013 Bluegrass State Games. The track and field portion of the 2013 Bluegrass State Games is set for the upcoming weekend. Additional sports will be later this month and in July. The Bluegrass State Games is a non-profit program sponsored privately to promote amateur athletics across the Commonwealth. It is the signature ev...
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