Those fishers who have never hooked and battled the mighty muskellunge have missed the greatest thrill the sport of angling has to offer.

The friendship started with a business transaction.

RACELAND None of the first seven offensive series for Raceland on Friday night lasted longer than 58 seconds.

LLOYD Sometimes Charlie Terry is sleepy on football game days.

RUSSELL Ashland and Russell did not put many dents on the scoreboard during their district clash on Friday night.

RUSSELL It would concern most coaches if they entered a new season without a returning starter in the linebacker corps.

ASHLAND Twice this season Ashland has called upon Terell Jordan to come down with the ball out of the air at critical times.

RUSSELL While both teams hoped to finish the regular season strong, it is Russell that will be heading into the postseason with a win.

MOREHEAD Tyler Walker was nervous Wednesday morning and afternoon.

MOREHEAD Right before kickoff Wednesday night, Rowan County's Chase Alderman jogged from one side of the field to the other, realigning the Vikings' formation.

There are no free lunches and no moral victories in district play, but Ashland and East Carter both found positivity from their encounter in Grayson on Friday night.

MOREHEAD Fleming County did not want history to repeat itself.

MOREHEAD Avery Hall saw the opening she needed early in the second half. It just required a fortunate bounce of the ball.

Two northeastern Kentucky high school golfers have qualified for the Kentucky Golf Coaches Association’s All-State teams.

MOREHEAD A Rowan County fan began ringing her cowbell in celebration before Aaron Smart had even shot.

MOREHEAD Logan Price grimaced and grabbed his right hamstring on Monday night. He'll happily deal with the pain -- it was incurred in a joyful manner after yet another dramatic finish in a Boyd County-East Carter boys soccer series full of them.

MAYSVILLE Boyd County was easily the most dominant team in Saturday’s Area 7 Cross Country Championship.

MOREHEAD Saturday was a great day for Santiago Gutierrez to score his first high school soccer goal.

MOREHEAD You’d think running a 5-kilometer race in a little more than 16 minutes would be enough for one day.

In the beginning, the annual paddlers race down he Little Sandy River, founded 10 years ago by Tom Clay, was billed as a canoe race.

Robbie West had an important reason to start his coaching career.

WESTWOOD Paintsville junior Harris Phelps made his presence felt from the Tigers first play from scrimmage Friday night.

GRAYSON Ashland and East Carter turned their district opener into a wild, dramatic fight to the finish with three touchdowns in a span of 26 seconds late in the second quarter on Friday night.

LLOYD The 18th installment of the Backyard Brawl was full of second chances.

FLATWOODS Ashland knew it was coming — Russell’s Ava Quinn making a charge and drawing defenders, and Eva Blanke looking to capitalize on it — and the LadyCats worked in practice to stop it.

FLATWOODS It’s not uncommon for coaches to say who their opponent is doesn’t matter.

LLOYD There is not many nights that one can miss a penalty shot so badly that it hits a vehicle in the parking lot, which results in a second chance from the mark.

LLOYD Ellie Thomas’ cleats could have been seen in a total blackout Wednesday night in the 62nd District championship.

FLATWOODS A young Ashland team produced a winning formula at the right time of the year.

Ashland’s three-score second-quarter deficit at Elizabethtown on Friday night wasn’t a test — it was a re-test.