Back when all television was free to consumers, there was a lot less of it. But television still was powerful enough to hook us on football, and you know what the man says: You have to buy the new  

The Michael Vick dog fighting story, a tale of man's inhumanity, has incited the public like few other entries in the athletic story line, and it's a very snappily edited piece, too. We went al  

When they fall right, the final six weeks of the Major League Baseball season are the best competition of any sport's late-season stretch. It's no mere matter of six games to go, or even a dozen  

We can't speak for Brian Kelly, but we can love his audacity, which is why his first fall practices at the University of Cincinnati have just begun and one already hates to see him go. As UC con  

Those of us who still fantasize that baseball's career home run mark is the most hallowed record in sports took comfort early on the evening of Aug. 4, when Alex Rodriguez became the youngest pl  

Skip Prosser would have made a damn fine old man. We should have gotten him for another 30-odd years just so we could go back from time to time, listen and laugh, see his mind, feel a little bette  

Four years into Marvin Lewis, the Bengals are rebuilt, they've absorbed the first wave of flack after finally winning and now the air is cleaned by fire. The Bengals are right there, a true NFL c  

Andy Furman is on another letter-writing campaign, banging the drum to bring an NBA team into Cincinnati. If you can't have an NBA team, having a drum banger is the next best thing. We shouldn'  

In the shadows of championship baseball are found some sad stories in life. The standings alone can't count the misery, because only one club can finish in last place. Among the more dreaded sto  

Time and again, we hear that baseball fans don't care much about which players took steroids, or when or why. Fans have lives of their own, they've got their own struggles and they go to basebal  

Unless you're a baseball junkie belonging to the category of lost causes, it's difficult to watch the big leagues at this time of year. As usual, the sagacious Marty Brennaman put it best many y  

While we hold on tight to see if the Reds compete in a weak division or post the major league's worst record, it's worth remembering, for a moment, that no other Ohio team has won a major pro sp  

Many sports fans, citing the late Ted Williams as the sole authority on the subject, say hitting a baseball is the most difficult act in sports. Williams, whose last professional athletic performa  

The baseball season, if nothing else, is a drama, and most good drama has a three-act structure. The first act introduces the dramatis personae, the second act sets up and deepens the conflicts be  

The NBA took a year off from its historical arc last season, when Dallas and Miami made their cameos on the NBA Finals stage and thus were certified Dirk Nowitzki and Dwayne Wade as important play