In the shadows of championship baseball are found some sad stories in life. The standings alone can't count the misery, because only one club can finish in last place. Among the more dreaded sto  

Time and again, we hear that baseball fans don't care much about which players took steroids, or when or why. Fans have lives of their own, they've got their own struggles and they go to basebal  

Unless you're a baseball junkie belonging to the category of lost causes, it's difficult to watch the big leagues at this time of year. As usual, the sagacious Marty Brennaman put it best many y  

While we hold on tight to see if the Reds compete in a weak division or post the major league's worst record, it's worth remembering, for a moment, that no other Ohio team has won a major pro sp  

Many sports fans, citing the late Ted Williams as the sole authority on the subject, say hitting a baseball is the most difficult act in sports. Williams, whose last professional athletic performa  

The baseball season, if nothing else, is a drama, and most good drama has a three-act structure. The first act introduces the dramatis personae, the second act sets up and deepens the conflicts be  

The NBA took a year off from its historical arc last season, when Dallas and Miami made their cameos on the NBA Finals stage and thus were certified Dirk Nowitzki and Dwayne Wade as important play  

The Bengals took their turns in the NFL draft two weeks ago under the cloud of a new player conduct policy that would go so far as to hold the team responsible if their players should persist in g  

Three decades following the demise of baseball's reviled reserve clause, Roger Clemens has extended the logic of free agency into a new dimension of semi-retired influence, to say nothing of affl  

The NFL draft approached with a warning shot across the league from the commissioner's office, which didn't need to name the Bengals as a primary target. Commissioner Roger Goodell suspended Te