Somewhere, wafting through the Cincinnati airwaves and above Great American Ball Park, the ghost of Pete Rose hovers like a rain cloud. No matter how thoroughly Rose is discredited on other ground  

Like no other event that takes place in the world, the Olympics make us think we have a window into the human condition.  

We should probably stop speculating about the future after botching Junior Griffey's engagement in Cincinnati so badly, but we can't. We really need the future right now.  

The days of opening Bengals training camp and expecting good to come of it were short lived. The Marvin Lewis era, so promising not so long ago  

BY Bill Peterson | Posted 07/23/2008 Jerry Dowling   

BY Bill Peterson | Posted 07/23/2008 The following is offered in the spirit of the late Harry Caray, who might be considered a Wittgensteinian in the circles of baseball commentary, if only baseba  

Midway through the baseball season, the American League's superiority in big league baseball persists with such radiance that The Wall Street Journal took a stab at explaining it, however feebly.  

At the end of the 2007 season, the Reds completed their seventh straight year of losing with a 72-90 record. Meanwhile, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays ended their 10th straight year of losing with a 66  

Nothing is more fun and easy to abuse than a baseball statistic, which is why we do it so freely and often. It's also how we frequently outsmart ourselves. No matter what we learn from quantitat  

Way back in the old days, before life was so fast, prudence dictated that no baseball trade could be properly evaluated for at least two years.