By Bill Templeton, Sports Writer | September 29, 2025
By Abby Sherman, Contributing Writer | September 29, 2025
By John Henson, Managing Editor | September 27, 2025
By Bill Templeton, Sports Writer | September 24, 2025

Football players have often been described as being worth the price of admission due to their ability to produce spectacular, game-changing moments. Friday night atop Log Mountain at Dudley Hilton Field, Bell County senior...

Win number 700 for the Middlesboro football program goes into the history books as a blowout as the Jackets raced to a 44-0 halftime lead on the way to a 58-0 victory Friday at Harlan. Middlesboro capitalized on seven Harlan...




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...

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...


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 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,...
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Harlan County secured the No. 1 seed in next week's 50th District Soccer Tournament with a 6-1 victory Monday night over rival Middlesboro...

Harlan County capped what is likely the best middle school football season since the 2008 merger with a doubleheader sweep Saturday at home against Perry Central, giving both...

The Harlan County Black Bears rolled to a 44-14 win Thursday at Clay County in seventh- and eighth-grade football action. Caysen Farley scored four touchdowns to lead the...



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...

There is a memorable scene from the movie Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby where the title character and best friend Cal Naughton...

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...

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