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As the summer basketball season at Shawnee Park draws to a close, an underdog team from Newburg took the 56th annual Dirt ...
This historic basketball tournament celebrated its 56th year finale with Back to School giveaways and plenty of action on the ...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — For decades, the Dirt Bowl has been a neighborhood favorite. There has been so much history in 50 plus years with memories spanning generations. Seeing 5-on-5 on the blacktop ...
The court is named after legendary Dirt Bowl announcer Cornell Bradley, whom Churchill affectionately called the most recognizable person of the tournament. At 73 years old, Bradley has been the ...
The 56th annual Dirt Bowl continues Sunday at 1 p.m. at Shawnee Park, promising yet another day of basketball, pride and community unity.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — This year the Louisville Metro government began using the annual Dirt Bowl basketball tournament at Shawnee Park as a way to curb the city's ongoing violence. For the first ...
The event was put on by Metro Councilwomen Tammy Hawkins, D-1, and Donna Purvis, D-5, along with Will Green, owner of the Just Lit Candle Company.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - The Dirt Bowl was sadly in the news this year but for a terrible reason. A shooting that put a damper on the tournament and caused it to take a break for a week. But it hasn’t ...
Dust, dirt and all that applied, so everybody in the community would come. It was a collection place for everybody to come and play sports and kind of hang out,” said Scott Ferguson, Dirt Bowl ...
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - The legendary Dirt Bowl summer basketball league has been around Lexington since the early 1970s. Even though the weather forced them to move the event from Douglas Park to ...
They’re a part of the Dirt Bowl,” Churchill said. Some of the crowd were more concerned with the heat than anything else. One man says he thought they were going to cancel the games. But according to ...
According to Louisville Metro Police, Lee had 12 outstanding warrants when they attempted to arrest him during the 2022 Dirt Bowl basketball tournament.