After watching the Reds for a week, we could be onto the start of something big, remembering that the path is long between the start and something big. But the start of something big is a start --  

We always want Opening Day to be a day of "Hello," but it couldn't possibly go that way March 31 for the Reds. As the Reds and their public communed for the first time following an offseason o  

The men's basketball team at Xavier University made previous Sweet 16 appearances in 1990 and 2004 with fine teams that overachieved. As such, they were uninvited guests, crashers at the Sweet 1  

CBS pays the NCAA $560 million every year to televise the NCAA men's basketball tournament, which is one of those few, real time, Tivo-proof events still out there for advertisers. The cost of br  

Flipping around the dial over the weekend, looking at a college basketball game here, a spring training baseball game there and an NBA game somewhere else, one had to curse his rotten luck at bei  

Government has never enjoyed a great reputation in America, especially not since distrust over official lies issuing from the Vietnam War fermented in the 1960s. Then came Watergate, followed by   

On Feb. 5, Bob Knight walked away from college basketball, resigning from Texas Tech in the middle of the season. A week later, it came to light that the NCAA issued five charges of major rules v  

The University of Cincinnati's basketball program is nearing completion of a painful transitional phase that's passing before our eyes. The light at the end of the tunnel grows larger by the da  

Of all the words ever spoken about baseball, none are truer than those attributed to 1950s catcher Wes Westrum, who's supposed to have said that baseball is like church: Many attend, but few und  

It's not how you start in the NFL, or anywhere else. Those last five months mattered for about five months -- today, and forever, they won't. If we learned anything Feb. 3, just in case we eve