We always want Opening Day to be a day of "Hello," but it couldn't possibly go that way March 31 for the Reds. As the Reds and their public communed for the first time following an offseason o  

The men's basketball team at Xavier University made previous Sweet 16 appearances in 1990 and 2004 with fine teams that overachieved. As such, they were uninvited guests, crashers at the Sweet 1  

CBS pays the NCAA $560 million every year to televise the NCAA men's basketball tournament, which is one of those few, real time, Tivo-proof events still out there for advertisers. The cost of br  

Flipping around the dial over the weekend, looking at a college basketball game here, a spring training baseball game there and an NBA game somewhere else, one had to curse his rotten luck at bei  

Government has never enjoyed a great reputation in America, especially not since distrust over official lies issuing from the Vietnam War fermented in the 1960s. Then came Watergate, followed by   

On Feb. 5, Bob Knight walked away from college basketball, resigning from Texas Tech in the middle of the season. A week later, it came to light that the NCAA issued five charges of major rules v  

The University of Cincinnati's basketball program is nearing completion of a painful transitional phase that's passing before our eyes. The light at the end of the tunnel grows larger by the da  

Of all the words ever spoken about baseball, none are truer than those attributed to 1950s catcher Wes Westrum, who's supposed to have said that baseball is like church: Many attend, but few und  

It's not how you start in the NFL, or anywhere else. Those last five months mattered for about five months -- today, and forever, they won't. If we learned anything Feb. 3, just in case we eve  

Books about how to succeed in business might not be the lifeblood of the publishing industry, but any visit to a bookstore will tell you the industry couldn't live without them. Many such books   

Ending most football seasons, the Super Bowl is often little more than the NFL championship game. Only on very few occasions is the Super Bowl really the Super Bowl. We're grateful for that. An  

While it's long been decided that contemporary hot mediums diminish the general public's attention span, all too seldom is it noted that media messengers and football coaches are every bit as b  

The last year ended in reflection, personal and otherwise. The Cincinnati Post, my last daily newspaper, put out its final edition on the morning of Dec. 31, three days short of reaching 127 year  

How does one celebrate the perfect football team? By waiting until the team is truly perfect. In other words, not yet. So hold the champagne for the New England Patriots. And if any 1972 Miami Dol  

The year in sports just now winding behind us is most happily to be remembered for the rise of football at the University of Cincinnati, not long ago and for a very long time the most neglected t