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Newport native Don Owen’s “Inaudible Majesty” now on sale at amazon.com

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PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — How did the sinful journey begin for a reluctant villain named Don Owen? What made the long trek through a dark wilderness so brutally rugged? Who was the beacon of hope when everything seemed murky on the trail ahead? What caused a spiritually deaf sinner to begin listening to the inaudible majesty of God? These questions are answered in Owen's memoirs, Inaudible Majesty . The book is on now on sale at amazon.com . Owen, a native of Northern Kentucky and a born-again Christian, spent four decades as a writer, media relations director and editor. He traveled all over the country. He met people from every part of the world. And Owen constantly searched for inner peace. "The more I told myself I'd succeeded at something, the more I realized I was a complete failure," said Owen, a 1980 graduate of Newport High School. "Professionally and personally, I was never really happy. Even as a kid growing up in Newport. "Only when I accepted Jesus...

What’s this? Trying to rebuild the old NKU Athletics Website for years 1999-2009

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Note: From 1999-2009, the office of sports information designed and operated the NKU Athletics website. On Aug. 12, 2009, NKU launched a new website designed by Internet Consulting Services, a content-management platform provider that later became SIDEARM Sports. The original NKU Athletics website, however, was not maintained after 2014 and many links and images on the NKU server are missing. This is an attempt at placing many of the stories online with archived screenshots. Below are the first-ever recaps from the old NKU Athletics website from Sept. 18, 1999. Click on the images below to clearly view the original recaps in an html file. These recaps directly below are from the second day of the old NKU Athletics website, Sept. 19, 1999.