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  

For about the past 10 years this space has been tireless, if also tiresome, in its complaints that Major League Baseball threatened to obliterate the blessed historical distinction between the Ame  

The multi-billion dollar spectator sports business in America owes its profits chiefly to a pair of ideas embedded in the hearts of every fan. The first holds that the outcome of the game matters.  

Only in the cardboard discourse of sports page morality would Ben Roethlisberger and Chris Henry be equated for committing the ethical sin of "irresponsibility." Meanwhile, a real case of irresp  

The 1990 World Cup took place in Italy at a time when the United States enjoyed high international prestige. The Soviet Union and its satellite nations came apart from the edges by summer, and Ame  

The pages of last week's sports news described three signature developments concerning this year's race in the National League Central division. An injury in St. Louis, a contract in Houston and the  

Playoff season isn't very full of surprises this spring, except for the surprises we usually expect. At this point in the proceedings, one still hopes the NBA playoffs elaborate the story of prof  

School is ending, and so the time is at hand when the Reds traditionally hope for a profitable bump in their home attendance. Years ago, the Reds expected that bump and the fans complied -- now t  

Sometime this week or next, Barry Bonds is likely to pass Babe Ruth on the all-time home run list, which means absolutely nothing except that it's brought the discussion back around to Ruth. Bas