The Pied Piper of Pike County lands in Bourbon

January 4, 2019 Fletcher Long 0

Please your honours, said he, I’m able,/By means of a secret charm, to draw/All creatures living beneath the sun,/That creep or swim or fly or run,/After me so as you never saw!…“Pied Piper of Hamelin,” Robert Browning. These words were written about a man who lent himself to a city […]

Inside the Numbers: Belfry at Johnson Central

October 24, 2018 Fletcher Long 0

This week, inside the numbers, we decided to take a look at the matchup October 26, 2018 in Paintsville, Kentucky between two heavyweights in Kentucky high school football, Johnson Central vs. Belfry. This is a pivotal game for each of these two teams with the playoffs looming. Johnson Central is ranked […]

Peyton Varney is happy to be back home again…

June 30, 2018 Fletcher Long 0

Hey, it’s good to be back home again/Sometimes this old farm feels like a long lost friend/Yes, and hey, it’s good to be back home again…“Back Home Again,” the late John Denver. Nobody encapsulated what it meant to be a Country Boy or live in the Mountains or even be […]

Isaac Dixon, Class of 2021, Belfry High School

June 26, 2018 Fletcher Long 0

Everyone on the Mountains knows that Class of 2021, Isaac Dixon, a guy who made our Freshman All-State Football team as an athlete, is fast. He averaged 15.15 yards per carry this past season at RB in limited action (13 carries, 4 of which were TDs) and had 16 tackles at […]

Logan Arbogast or Sean Cochran? Who’s it going to be?

May 30, 2018 Fletcher Long 0

There is quite a controversy brewing in the mountains about whom will be starting for Coach Phillip Haywood‘s Pirates at the split tackle position upfront. Who’s going to be the fifth, first-teamer on Haywood’s Hawgs? Well, we have been informed, through sources close to the situation which KPGFootball has developed to […]

Dagen Rash sets up visit with West Point

May 3, 2018 Fletcher Long 0

There is a famous compliment once paid to football players at the United States Military Academy at West Point about which I am sure Dagen Rash will be told when he visits the school in Orange County, New York which sits upon the strategic high ground overlooking the Hudson River. Interestingly […]