These are 8th Graders…

May 27, 2017 Fletcher Long 0

For those of us who have sons who have played on National 8th grade (2021) All-American Football Teams, this isn’t going to be news.  Take a good look at the picture attached to this article.  Every kid depicted is an 8th grade rising 9th grade player.  He doesn’t look like your […]

Chasing those hoop dreams…

May 19, 2017 Fletcher Long 0

I have a very good friend who is a fantastic football coach by the name of Darrel Keith, formerly the HC at CCMS and now coaching  the Varsity’s Offensive Line and Head Coach of the Freshman Team at Christian County High School.  He told me Mississippi State Football was at […]

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V7 Combine Series hits Dallas!

May 18, 2017 Fletcher Long 0

What is THE All-American Game right now on the High School and Middle School Level.  Well, it’s the V7 Elite All-American Game which will be held in Atlanta, Georgia in December of 2017.  Executive Director Marcus Gildersleeve and Michael Vick have put together a Combine series netting offers for kids […]

FBU in Franklin/Nashville this weekend!

May 17, 2017 Fletcher Long 0

This weekend FBU comes to town to combine at Independence High School.  I am providing a link so anyone interested can register and get his keister down to Franklin and get seen.  The link is http://footballuniversity.org/camp/nashville/ and my good friend Manny Martinez will be helping run the show, so get […]

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BG’s Justice Dingle V7 Elite All-American

May 15, 2017 Fletcher Long 0

The National Football Playmaker’s Academy (NPA) in connection with Michael Vick’s V7 Elite Combine Series has made its first selections for the High School V7 All-American Game to be played in Atlanta, Georgia.  Kentucky Prep Gridiron is proud that Justice Dingle was among the first invited to Atlanta.  Justice is […]

In Memoriam to a Sports Legend…Scott Burnside

May 5, 2017 Fletcher Long 0

Kentucky Prep Gridiron is sad to report the passing of a longtime Hopkinsville sports writer three days ago after his waging a lengthy battle with Parkinson’s disease. Scott Burnside wrote for the Kentucky New Era as part of a 37-year journalism career that began as a paper boy and saw him ascend […]

Ladies and Gentlemen….Your Kentucky Future Stars 8th Grade Roster…

May 1, 2017 Fletcher Long 0

The Kentucky Future Stars Team is as follows for 8th Grade, the players in bold were subjects of former Kentucky Prep Gridiron feature articles: QB-EJ Austin, Larry Cummings Jr RB-Lavell Wright, Austin Gough, Desrick Allen, Terrance Mitchell, Austin Oppel, Ethan Mills K-Ben Schofield WR-Elijah Blakey, Stephen Jones, Isaac Dimmock, Derrion Collier, Nick […]

Isiah Forrest…Look Who Decided to Come to the Party!

April 11, 2017 Fletcher Long 0

What can one say about Isiah Forrest?  He hasn’t been out on the Combine Circuit and Kentucky Prep Gridiron doesn’t believe he has garnered any post-season distinction.  It is very plausible the Kentucky Future Stars Combine is his first foray into attempting to earn his way onto any State or National […]

As we predicted…

March 31, 2017 Fletcher Long 0

As was predicted yesterday on Kentucky Prep Gridiron, scooping every other periodical on line or in print, Craig The Silver Fox Clayton was handed back the reigns to the Hopkinsville High School Football Program he steered to 149 wins in 16 years and two State Finals births the last time he […]