Larry Vaught, Author at The Advocate-Messenger

Sports

Former UK running back White concerned about COVID-shortened season

How often have you heard that an eight-game Southeastern Conference schedule is a grind for every league team and how welcome the bye weeks are ... Read more

by Larry Vaught, Tuesday, August 4, 2020 8:29 am

Sports

UK football season pushed back to Sept. 26

Kentucky will not start its football season now until Sept. 26 and will be playing 10 Southeastern Conference games. Athletics director Mitch Barnhart says the ... Read more

by Larry Vaught, Tuesday, August 4, 2020 8:27 am

News

New Boyle football coach’s wife, a physician, offers unique take on COVID-19

Melissa Haddix has a lot of ways of looking at the COVID-19 pandemic that has disrupted almost everything in our country the last four months ... Read more

by Larry Vaught, Tuesday, July 21, 2020 9:09 am

Sports

Former UK star Bowden conducts youth football camp

Not only did Lynn Bowden return from Las Vegas to conduct a youth football camp in Somerset Saturday night, but he apparently would like to ... Read more

by Larry Vaught, Monday, July 13, 2020 6:57 am

Danville Sports

Pittman inducted into Danville athletics hall of fame

Being inducted into the Danville High School Athletics Hall of Fame is something that Molly Pittman admits is “priceless” to her and why she intends ... Read more

by Larry Vaught, Monday, July 13, 2020 6:25 am

Sports

Tamme says Barnhart is ‘an incredible man of integrity’

A recent ranking put Kentucky’s Mitch Barnhart among the Southeastern Conference’s worst athletic directors, something that Allison Tamme — the wife of former UK all-SEC ... Read more

by Larry Vaught, Monday, June 29, 2020 2:26 pm

Sports

Dampier among UK basketball legends

Younger University of Kentucky basketball fans likely don’t even know who Louie Dampier was even though he’s in the Naismith Hall of Fame and could ... Read more

by Larry Vaught, Monday, June 29, 2020 2:21 pm

Sports

Players were motivated to play for Sutton

Roger Harden was a senior point guard at Kentucky when Rex Chapman was a high school senior at Owensboro Apollo and signed to play basketball ... Read more

by Larry Vaught, Monday, June 1, 2020 9:20 pm

Centre College Sports

Owens excited for track future at Centre

She’s an eight-time national age division champion, has competed internationally and was part of the Olympic developmental program Project Javelin Gold. However, for as long ... Read more

by Larry Vaught, Thursday, May 21, 2020 8:00 pm

Sports

Lincoln County star King still learning at UK

She scored over 2,500 points and had 750 rebounds in her high school career at Lincoln County and was nearly a 40 percent shooter from ... Read more