Bengals news
The Bengals today waived rookie WR Travis Brown of New Mexico, with an injury settlement (hamstring). Brown was acquired by Cincinnati on waivers from Seattle on May 6.
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Who wants golfers?
Time to do a PGA golf pool. This weeks' prize is a round of golf for four players at The Vineyard Golf Course on Nordyke Rd. in Cincinnati. (Vineyard golf pro Sam Arnold is competing in the PGA Championship) I will send you a trio of golfers to follow. If one of them wins, you win.
Click HERE to requst golfers
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Guest update
Two time Indy 500 and Dancing With The Stars champ Helio Castroneves will check in around 3:45 to preview the Saturday Ky Speedway Meijer 300.
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Sad news
Joyce Battle, Wake Forest Associate Coach Jeff Battle’s wife, had been battling lung cancer successfully for many years, passed away today.
Jeff was an assistant for Skip Prosser at Xavier from 1995-2001 and has been at Wake Forest since 2002. He coached under Skip for 14 seasons, at three different schools (Loyola, MD). Thoughts and prayers to the family.
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Jinx?
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Rivers practices, Chinny carted off, returns
C. Trent's blog
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Topics
A River runs through Georgetown: Keith Rivers in the fold
Bengals: Why is training camp attendance down 50%?
AFC North: Who is the team to beat? Why?
Fan Code of Conduct: What do you think of the new policy? Got a story about bad fan behavior at a sporting event?
Athletes off the field: How much do you want/need to know? See the series of stories below about the changing media.
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AFL team to Bank of Kentucky Center?
The Ville Voice
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Jr: White Sox "my kind of team"
USA Today
"It was time for me to go," said Griffey, who spent the last 8 ½ years with the Cincinnati Reds. "It's a dream come true to play on a championship-type team.
Cool scene last night
Jr gets standing ovation in debut at Comiskey Park in Chicago
(Chris Sweda/Sun-Times)
"I can count probably four other times that it's been like this," he said. "Going back to Seattle. Five-hundred [homers], 600, things like that and now here. And Cincinnati the first time."
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Holy Crap!
We are nearing the end of season three of The Wire. Episode 11 was perhaps the best the show has had. I saw it coming. Hoped it wouldn't. It did. Dang. Can't wait to wrap it up tonight.
What a show......from storylines to writing to character development.
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Maxim Hometown Hottie
Careful opening
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Bats fastest to 70 wins in franchise history
Louisville Courier Journal
"Quite frankly, we're just trying to stay focused on playing good baseball," manager Rick Sweet said. "If we play good baseball, good things will happen. (The 70-victory mark is) a nice accomplishment. It makes me smile because these guys have worked very hard. This is a fun group of guys."
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Rivers signs
C. Trent's blog
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Gotta love the pro athlete
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Cribbs feels he has already ex- ceeded the six- year deal he signed before his Pro Bowl season last year. That contract, which has five years to go, was for about $6 million, in cluding a $2 million signing bonus.
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Reds news
CINCINNATI - Approximately 400 Great American Ball Park Diamond Club tickets have been illegally obtained from the Cincinnati Reds and are being promoted and resold through unauthorized web sites and third party listings.
Only resold Diamond Club tickets using print-at-home delivery are affected. Fans who purchased resold tickets to the Diamond Club are advised to contact their source of purchase, because these resold ticket tickets will not be honored for admission to games at Great American Ball Park.
The Reds have turned the investigation over to law enforcement officials, and the club will continue to cooperate in the investigation.
Online ticket purchases made via reds.com or StubHub, the official fan-to-fan ticket marketplace of the Reds, are not affected. Fans are encouraged to continue to use these authorized means of purchasing tickets online, but the Reds have temporarily disabled the print-at-home option. Tickets purchased online can be picked up at the Reds' ticket kiosks, or the tickets can be mailed.
Fans with questions regarding the validity of a ticket purchase can contact the Reds' ticket office at (513) 765-7400.
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Is he tired....or is he Jack Armstrong?
Edinson Volquez innings pitched
'03 27
'04 127.1
'05 141
'06 154
'07 178.2
'08 143...on pace for 193 innings in '08 regular season
('08 ....+8.2 Dominican Winter League innings, +13 Spring Training innings)
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"Marty, this team is gonna hit"
Tuesday night was the 36th time this season the Reds have scored fewer than three runs in a game....36 of 104 games (35%). They are 1-35 in such games.
They scored fewer than three runs 40 times (25%) in 2007....going 7-33.
My stat of the night: The streak is over!
Edwin Encarnacion's 1st inning RBI single to score Jeff Keppinger snapped a streak of 18 consecutive games without the Reds scoring in the 1st inning.
Prior to Tuesday night, the last time the Reds scored in the 1st inning was Saturday, July 12 vs Milwaukee when Adam Dunn homered.
Also....
The Reds are now 34-11 when they score first and 18-51 when the opponent scores first.
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Breaking down the AFC North
Bengals: Offensive woes being addressed in camp
Steelers: New offensive philosophy focus of camp
Browns: Browns need to resolve some issues to meet expectations
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NFL implements fan code of conduct
Sun Times
The NFL implemented a new code of fan conduct Tuesday, warning that spectators who misbehave will be ejected from stadiums and barred from coming back.
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Ohhh, ohhhh, ohhhhh
Did you see Prince Fielder crush that fastball from Nick Massett after two pitches up and in? Good golly.
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Bengals roster moves
C. Trent's blog
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Transaction noticed
July 29: Right-hander Tom Shearn was signed to a free-agent contract. He started the season with Triple-A Louisville and went 6-2 with a 4.53 earned-run average before being sold to a team in Korea.
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The most overrated position in sports
ESPN
The save is the only situation in which a manager makes his decisions based on a statistic rather than what makes the most competitive sense for his team.
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LeBron to Europe for 50-mill a year?
ESPN
A person close to James said Tuesday that the Cavaliers' superstar would strongly consider playing overseas if he was offered a salary of "around $50 million a year."
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It's IU vs ND
Indiana will take on long-time rival Notre Dame in the first round of the EA
Sports Maui Invitational as pairings were announced today for one of the
nation's premier early-season college basketball tournament. The game will
tip-off at 5:30 p.m. Eastern and will be shown on ESPN2. Marking its milestone
25th year, the eight-team competition will return to Maui's ocean-front Lahaina
Civic Center Nov.24-26.
The Hoosiers who captured the 2002 championship, will be making its fifth
appearance in the event. The Hoosiers also competed in the tournament in 1990,
1994 and 1998. This will be the first meeting between IU and Notre Dame since
December of 2004. The Hoosiers have a 47-20 edge in the series and have won
eight of the last nine matchups.
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Training camp attendance down 50%
Mark Curnutte's blog
Georgetown College officials say overall attendance is Bengals training camp is down about 50 percent from last year, based on the count of vehicles paying to park.
Gotta love the pro athlete
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Cribbs feels he has already ex- ceeded the six- year deal he signed before his Pro Bowl season last year. That contract, which has five years to go, was for about $6 million, in cluding a $2 million signing bonus.
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