The stories told by baseball aren't like the stories told in films and books, where time and space are condensed for brevity and convenience. Baseball stories take their time, decades if need be  

The preseason games began for the Bengals long before their 23-13 loss to the New England Patriots Aug. 12. They're the kinds of games that preceded most of their past 14 seasons without a winnin  

Up until last month, Rafael Palmeiro distinguished himself as a future Hall of Famer without being especially famous, an all-time baseball great without ever being a great of a specific time. Sinc  

In late winter, when big league baseball clubs begin camps, we always say, "Hope springs eternal." Do Bengals fans in late summer get to say "Hope falls eternal?" This might be the year we'l  

It's about this time of year when we remember winners are hard to come by in Cincinnati. The Reds are beginning to auction off veteran players, hoping to salvage their fifth consecutive losing s  

Obviously, whenever the championship of any athletic season comes around, the competitors always give it their best. After all, no one remembers who finished second. The runner-up lives with a ba  

To forecast an entire baseball season before it begins is foolish. To forecast the second half of a season when the first half is finished is only half foolish. Herewith, then, half a fool dares t  

From the field to the front office, the Reds have delivered one of the most unpleasant seasons we've ever seen. The worst of it is that we don't know how badly they've let us down -- but the ch  

Of all the sports, the leadership of a baseball club is the most random and uncontrollable. For Dave Miley, 26 years with the Reds organization, during which he mostly performed very well, it came  

It is expected that talks will resume this week between National Hockey League owners and their players, though it's not expected that the NHL will return vigorously from a lockout that cancelled  

To paraphrase one of the worst leads in sports writing history, since it contains a grain of truth, the hardest part of describing the Reds is finding the right words. Last week, as the Reds reac  

Slow and steady isn't supposed to win this race, but basketball sometimes trumps bombast, even in the NBA. So the San Antonio Spurs, the league's most consistent power, are back in the NBA Final  

See now the Reds, the people's ball club, changing their roster as if by talk show referendum. Next time Carl Lindner decides to save money on a general manager, the Reds would be a natural for I  

Manchester United ended an empty season of dreadful reconstituence May 21, losing England's FA Cup final to hated rival Arsenal despite mostly dominating the game. No one scored in regulation time,   

Fairly or not, the general knock against Bob Huggins is that he doesn't recruit bright kids. So he finally brings in Roy Bright, and look what happens. If this kid has anything in his head, it'