How many steps can a football team climb in one day? On what kind of day does a football team reach backward across 15 years of failure to share its best days with the present? How charming is th  

Because the Bowl Championship Series this year will produce two, and only two, worthy entrants for the national championship game, a void is left where the punditry would ordinarily address the m  

Seldom does the NFL enter its final six weeks so cut and dried, with three divisions all but decided, 11 teams at least four games over .500 and the schedules showing little favoritism. Concurrent  

The Big East might become a big deal, but big change is the big deal at the University of Cincinnati's athletic department for now. Whether or not one agrees with President Nancy Zimpher's initi  

Carl Lindner won't go into the books as the greatest owner in Reds history, which is an unfortunate lack of achievement for one of the wealthiest fellows this town has ever seen. Because of his r  

Baseball season is finished now and basketball begins this week, but neither of those is a local story in Cincinnati. So let's stick for the moment with the Bengals, who bookend an emphatic phas  

The unrealized competence of the old Bengals regime went head-to-head on Oct. 23 with the unrealized competence of the new. Unfortunately for the Bengals, the old regime has been realized in Pitts  

Some towns are known for their great baseball teams, others for their great fans. But Chicago holds a special place in the baseball world -- it's known for losing. That's why the Chicago media   

For all the suspense in sports, outcomes much more often than not boil down to one principle. In baseball, defense wins, which mostly means pitching. In the other sports, defense wins, whatever th  

Let's just cut through the preliminaries and go right to the finish: It's the Cardinals this year. It has to be. They're not just the best club still standing -- they're the best club by a lon  

Bad news for college football fans: The season now one month old might put them to sleep. Usually we're into October before the top two teams have separated themselves. Even then, the remaining   

For every winner, there's a loser. But does that commit us to spotting a goat for every hero? The question arises from the AL Central race; a lot of people are missing a good story. The Chicago   

Among the exceptions to Cincinnati's often-noted reticence concerning newcomers, Marvin Lewis is the most current and, other than Jerry Springer, the most famous. But not even Lewis has fully com  

More often than in any other town, football season ends in New Orleans. In the past 68 years, the duration of the college football polling era, 20 national champions have finished their seasons in  

Extrapolating from the accounts of Nancy Zimpher's dream for University of Cincinnati basketball, she wants to turn Vegas East into Xavier West. Jeff Fogelson and Pete Gillen are available, which