Ballard Bruins

Louisville’s Kiyaunta Goodwin ready to bang with the big boys!

August 8, 2019 Henry Lyon 0

When Phillip Fulmer, now the AD at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, but once a National Championship winning football coach at the same school, met Kiyaunta Goodwin he exclaimed it was like being in the movie “The Blind Side” a second time. That movie featured the coming of age of Michael Oher who went on to become one of the NFL’s marquee tackles. Of course Michael Oher was only 6-4, 315-pounds. Kiyaunta Goodwin is 6-8, 350. Regardless, Kiyaunta has been favorably compared to such greats for years now and has the opportunity, this season, to come of age and really showcase what he can do. You see, the player formerly playing 1A football for Holy Cross has now transferred to Louisville’s Ballard High School (6A). Enjoy the article.

…With Liberty and Justice for all…Ballard High’s Justice Thompson, dispensing justice in the middle of the Bruins defense!

April 7, 2019 Fletcher Long 3

You bring the liberty and we will provide the Justice. Justice Thompson from Louisville is about whom we are ranting. This is one of the most feared faces patrolling any second level of any defense among any of the 6 classifications of football playing in the commonwealth of Kentucky. What’s all the fuss? You’ll have to read this article to discover the answer to that.

Justice Thompson, Class of 2021, Ballard High School

July 6, 2018 Fletcher Long 0

The New York Yankees had a catcher/manager once named Yogi Berra. Berra used to say the damnedest things like…when you come to a fork in the road, take it and [y]ou should always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise, they won’t come to yours. Another saying which we believe is […]