The nation's leading baseball players are dropping their kids off at school for the last time before the rigors of spring training condemn them to the serious business of playing golf and sitting  

After the NFL and the old AFL split the first four Super Bowls, the merger took hold in 1970 with its two conferences on equal footing. But the footing has never remained equal. The 1970s belonge  

We interrupt our regularly scheduled Super Bowl hype for a moment of reflection so we might insert a short, overdue eulogy or two into a busy sports column. New to Cincinnati in early 1986, a you  

Peyton Manning is the guy who's in all the television commercials. He's the guy who passes for more than 4,000 yards almost every year. The guy who stands as close as we come to a natural at qua  

The Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) announced the results of the Hall of Fame balloting last week, resulting in next summer's induction of Tony Gwynn and Cal Ripken Jr. Though th  

The name of Marty Schottenheimer doesn't rattle around one's head in the tones of John Facenda, nor is he normally mentioned among the NFL's elite coaches. In a league that produces stars almos  

Ordinarily, one looks back on the year in sports and brushes it away. Usually it was just another year. You might be dramatic and say the year, like any year, was distinctive for its changes and   

The Reds have come a long way in less than a year, all the way up to average for a big league ball club, though still running their sixth straight losing season because they just weren't tight e  

Crosstown Shootout Week arrived with a buzz about no buzz, then went out with a buzz. We understand these teams a little better now, no thanks to ESPN, and we at least know what we see even if we   

The Hall of Fame ballot arrived this month with more than the usual puzzles. Not long ago -- like last December -- an agonozing call consisted of decision about someone like Jim Rice or Jack Morri