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Focused on Harlan County sports — today and yesterday

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Focused on Harlan County sports — today and yesterday

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The Cawood Trojans celebrated after defeating Belfry for the school's first regional football title.
Cawood’s 1975 regional title team to be honored on 50th anniversary
By John Henson, Managing Editor • October 14, 2025

For a Cawood football program that had struggled through much of the first decade of its existence, the 1975 season stands as proof that the rebuild started three years earlier had reached its goal with the first district championship,...

Sophomore tailback Boss Bryson led the Harlan offense Friday with 80 yards in the Dragons' 40-6 loss to visiting Thomas Walker, Va.
Pioneers roll up over 300 yards on the ground in victory at Harlan
October 11, 2025

  The Harlan Green Dragons learned Friday that there are different stages of rebuilding and that not every one-win football team is the same. Visiting Thomas Walker, Va., traveled to Harlan on Friday with only one...

Ralph Roberts watched the action from the sideline during a game with his Cumberland Redskins in the 1980s.
Mountain coaching legend, Roberts led Redskins to seven district titles
June 28, 2025

  Ralph Roberts, a mountain basketball coaching legend from the 1960s through the 1980s, died Friday morning in Versailles at 92. A graduate of Wayland High School...

Harlan County coach Gary Greer talked to his Lady Bears during summer scrimmage action earlier this month at Leslie County High School.
Lady Bears close summer slate by splitting games at Clay County
June 23, 2025

The Harlan County Lady Bears closed their summer schedule by splitting two varsity games Friday at Clay County, defeating Leslie County 49-40 before falling 50-41 to Clay County. Sophomore...

Harlan standouts Eli Freyer and Baylor Varner have been selected to the Kentucky Scout Team by Prospect U and will play in camps at colleges around the state this fall.
Kentucky Scout Team adds Harlan standouts Varner, Freyer to squad
By John Henson, Managing Editor • September 15, 2025

Baylor Varner and Eli Freyer have been two of the cornerstones for a Harlan baseball program that has been transformed over the past couple of years with two straight 52nd District...

Karsten Dixon
Dixon earns victory as Distillers clinch second seed in tournament
July 25, 2025

Karsten Dixon helped his Kentucky Distillers team clinch the second seed in the Commonwealth Collegiate Baseball League with a strong showing on the mound earlier this week. Dixon,...

Clover Fork Clinic expansion becomes a reality with ground breaking ceremony in Evarts
From The Sidelines: Miner and educator, artist and coach, Howard touched thousands of lives

From The Sidelines: Miner and educator, artist and coach, Howard touched thousands of lives

May 3, 2023

From New England to Harlan County, Nash enjoying smooth transition at Clover Fork Clinic

From New England to Harlan County, Nash enjoying smooth transition at Clover Fork Clinic

January 24, 2021

Celebrating a golden anniversary in Clover Fork

Celebrating a golden anniversary in Clover Fork

December 7, 2020

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Harlan County’s Kalista Dunn went airborne for a point in the Lady Bears’ 25-6, 25-9, 25-17 win over visiting Middlesboro on Senior Night.
Lady Bears celebrate Senior Night with 3-set sweep of Middlesboro
October 13, 2025

With over 70 wins, two 52nd District championships and two regional final four appearances with the hope of adding to that total later...

UK basketball schedule 2025-2026
UK basketball schedule 2025-2026
October 7, 2025

Shane Shackleford
The end of an era is nigh at UK and other SEC happenings
By Shane Shackleford, Sports Writer • September 28, 2025

Well, fellow Kentucky Wildcat football fans, the end of the Mark Stoops era in Lexington might finally be nigh at the door. I’ll be the first...

BIll Templeton
Wildcats, Spartans advance into Sweet 16 of NCAA Tournament
By Bill Templeton, Sports Writer • March 26, 2025

The first weekend of the 2025 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament is officially in the books, and the two teams in my bracket that I...

BIll Templeton
After 40-year wait, trip to Rupp for UK game lived up to expectations
By Bill Templeton, Sports Writer • January 16, 2025

In the six, or so, months that have elapsed since John Henson welcomed me onto his team as a contributing sports writer for the Harlan Enterprise,...

Harlan County seventh grader Annie Burton (left) and senior Hailie Hensley had strong showings at the Region 10 Tournament on Tuesday in Somerset.
HC’s Hensley, Burton have strong showings at regional tournament
September 23, 2025

Harlan County’s Hailie Hensley and Annie Burton had strong showings Tuesday in the Region 10 Tournament at Somerset. Hensley was 11th in the...

Photo of the Week
Cawood coach Jim Cullivan is pictured on the cover of the Harlan Daily Enterprise football preview in 1986 after earning state coach of the year honors for leading the Trojans to an undefeated regular season in 1985. The Trojans were also unbeaten in the 1982 regular season. Cullivan posted a 66-28 record from 1980 to 1988.