Those watching the baseball playoffs see the Detroit Tigers rolling out pitcher after pitcher who trips 98 miles per hour on the radar gun, and their thoughts can't be suppressed: The Fox network  

As football and baseball overlap at this time of year, one inveterate channel surfer is struck by the big difference between them, which is The Big Play. Your football team can score six points i  

When the most important decision of the regular season is made by an uprising of the worst club in baseball on its last day, one wonders if the playoffs can be any better. When the Reds' outcome  

So they snapped your quarterback's leg in two, knocked you out of the playoffs on your own field and chanted your chant in their locker room after the game. Later, they won the Super Bowl and moc  

The conventional wisdom usually says that a baseball club has to win 10 in a row to take command of a playoff race, when all the club really needs is to win more often than not against clubs it sh  

Football season rings the bell a couple times, knocks once and listens for footsteps inside. When it knows you're home, it breaks down your door to announce its arrival. By the end of the weekend  

What if they held a pennant race and no one came? Or left? The good news this fall concerning the tepid National League wild card race is that we're spared the ordinary silliness about how the e  

The problem with Steve Stewart on the Reds radio broadcasts touched not at all on his competence or dignity. Stewart is a very pleasant listen who obviously works hard to be informative and manag  

Jerry Narron notched his 110th victory as the Reds manager on Aug. 20. Earlier that day, the morning paper ran a column in Narron's defense. It should be counted among the wonders of sports that  

The following isn't a wholly original idea, and it might even risk incoherence. Such is the gamble so many take, and lose, when they begin discussing the so-called "West Coast Offense." The up  

The New York Mets of 1973 included Hall of Famers Tom Seaver and Willie Mays as well as Tug McGraw, a screwball reliever who coined the campaign slogan "You Gotta Believe." The Mets won 82 games  

August arrives to find the Reds not merely in the playoff hunt but leading the wildcard race as the week began, which means they are the hunted. Adding to their good fortune, the ball clubs doing   

From all the controversy surrounding the Bengals and their recent character issues, one wouldn't know if they're convening in Georgetown Saturday for training camp or prison camp. Maybe the Beng  

Three years later, the torch is finally passed. In the course of an eight-player trade with the Washington Nationals on July 13, Reds General Manager Wayne Krivsky gave the Jim Bowden Reds back to  

Of the sports for which sports fans profess their dislike, the low-scoring variety are most likely to be targeted for derision. Hence, the oft-stated dislike of soccer, for which the possibility o