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  

Not very long ago, the University of Cincinnati fired a coach who took his program to heights it hadn't reached in decades. The coach gave UC many years of dedicated service, set attendance recor  

The typical assumption that only the cream of professional football can hope to land in the NFL playoffs stands in danger of quaintness as the majority of contending franchises struggle to establi  

The Rose Bowl and its traditional partners, the Big Ten and the Pac-10, accepted the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) concept more slowly than the other college football entities, which quickly put  

Think of the Bengals, for a moment, the way Kant thought about nations. Think of the Bengals as a moral agent, as something like a human being with a personality. What are we to make of this mixed  

At a time when every sports journalist or commentator who doesn't sound like Grandma suffers termination or suspension for the most casual remarks, WLW-AM fired Andy Furman last week. The sketchy  

A question, which isn't like the questions in other sports, fogs over the World Series: How does a ball club win 83 during the season and go all the way to the World Championship? A football tea  

After three years of fighting against their history, which followed 12 years of fighting against their ineptitude, the Bengals are back to living the good life and fighting against the realities o