Opening Day of the baseball season is about the parade, a return to the daily habits of baseball and the arrival of spring. The game is only one out of 162. Opening Day of the NFL season is one o  

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'  

The Reds changed managers rather desperately last week, as if they just didn't know what else to do. But they reached the bottom, taking their beatings every night, and they couldn't just sit t