Danny Graves complained last week about fans in their home digs booing the Reds. Funny, but Reds management must have disagreed and were grateful for anyone who showed up. In addition to not hittin  

Cincinnati isn't fated for professional basketball, which is to say big league basketball as opposed to the minor league stuff. Big league basketball history uncovers a curious pattern of neglect  

In every major league town reside a fair number of professionals in other fields who are weekend warriors in the sports journalism trade. Generally, they're credentialed through small radio stati  

For all the underclassmen available in the NFL draft, which still artificially suppresses opportunity for young athletes, this year's event is said to be so deep and even, while the first teams t  

HOUSTON -- The first week of a baseball season generally tells us little, but it counts. And it says what it says loud and clear. You wondered how the Reds would look without Barry Larkin at shor  

The magic of Opening Day is never far from the imagination. But seldom is it so close to reality as on April 4, when the revitalized Reds gave their fans one of the happiest days in years. The da  

The four or five hours we've taken to drive from Cincinnati to Nashville, Knoxville, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Detroit or Chicago is half a day's work, but the destination doesn't seem worlds away  

For reasons that are unknown and still understandable, the NCAA men's basketball tournament selection committee refuses to release its Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) to the public. After all, the  

It's the time of year in college basketball when freshmen no longer are freshmen, sophomores no longer are sophomores and, of course, conference champions no longer are conference champions. It  

The epithets aimed at the NBA in the past couple of decades might be summarized by saying it was once about competition and now it's about entertainment. But that's spectator sports in a nutshel  

A little more than a year ago, this space noted that no year has ever transpired in which the Bengals played a complete winning season while the Reds endured a losing season. It was predicted, wit  

Between college basketball's bottom-heavy emphasis on the NCAA Tournament and the NBA's call to the best schoolboy basketball players, the relevance of college basketball now roughly coincides w  

The line between a dynasty and a contender in the NFL is as thin as a turnover or a short memory. The New England Patriots have won three Super Bowls in the past four years by a total of nine poin  

Once The Ultimate Football Game ends Sunday, worshippers of the American pigskin will face months without their game. As these unfortunates should anticipate listlessness and short temper, we shou  

While the New England Patriots made themselves pro football's most illustrious franchise in the past four years, the Philadelphia Eagles illustrated the underside of winning -- that not-quiteness