Buckeyes "Jump Around"
Saturday night in Madison
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Honors for Votto
Cincinnati Reds first baseman Joey Votto has been named the September recipient of the National League Rookie of the Month Award presented by Gillette.
Votto batted .309 (29-94) with eight doubles, two triples, nine home runs and 20 RBI in 25 September games. The 25-year-old first baseman posted a .723 slugging percentage and a .400 on-base percentage, and added 18 runs and two stolen bases. Votto ended the season on a seven-game hitting streak and had hit safely in 10 of his final 11 games, including eight multi-hit games. A native of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Votto recorded multi-hit games in three consecutive contests on three occasions during the month – September 3 rd-5th; 18th-20th; and 22nd-24th.
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Marvin today
*Kenny Watson will be brought back today.......and will move back into his previous role
*Carson's elbow came out of the game fine. They will see how he is Wednesday.
*"I like our team....other than being 0-5"
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Jan. 1 Miami BCS vs. BCS |
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| Comment: The ACC champion is locked to the Orange Bowl and CBSSports.com projects Virginia Tech will claim that honor. The Orange Bowl gets the last pick in the BCS bowl selection process and takes Big East champion Cincinnati. If the Big East champion gets picked, look for the Orange Bowl to get BYU or maybe even Boise State or Utah. | ||
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Nuxhall news
COOPERSTOWN, NY): The 10 finalists for the 2009 Ford C. Frick Award, presented annually for excellence in baseball broadcasting by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, were announced today. The final ballot includes three fan selections produced during a record-total 145,138 votes recorded throughout September exclusively at baseballhall.org.
For the second consecutive year, Joe Nuxhall paced all broadcasters in the fan-voting, totaling 19,547 votes. Jacques Doucet (10,282) and Tom Cheek (8,992) also earned spots on the final ballot, joining seven broadcasters selected by a Hall of Fame research committee: Billy Berroa, Ken Coleman, Dizzy Dean, Lanny Frattare, Tony Kubek, Graham McNamee and Dave Van Horne.
The winner of the 2009 Frick Award will be announced on December 9 at Baseball’s Winter Meetings. Voting will be conducted by a 20-member electorate, comprised of the 15 living Frick Award recipients and five broadcast historians/columnists, including past Frick honorees Marty Brennaman, Jerry Coleman, Gene Elston, Joe Garagiola, Ernie Harwell, Jaime Jarrin, Milo Hamilton, Harry Kalas, Denny Matthews, 2008 Frick Award winner Dave Niehaus, Felo Ramirez, Vin Scully, Lon Simmons, Bob Uecker and Bob Wolff, and historians/columnists Bob Costas (NBC), Barry Horn (Dallas Morning News), Stan Isaacs (formerly of NY Newsday), Ted Patterson (historian) and Curt Smith (historian).
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The emotion of it all
Tracing my emotions from Sunday
*Kickoff: "Ok, I have the Bengals +23 and over 38.5 in a teaser...let's go Bengals...make me some money"
*Carson intercepted on 1st play: "Well........here we go!"
*Bengals hold Cowboys to FG: "Could have been worse"
*CBS bumps in with cheerleader shot: "Dang!" (Double dang when checking DVR of it)
*TJ false start: "How hard is it? Geeeeeeeeez"
*4th 4 for Dallas: "They are going to run on 4th and 4?
*Felix Jones goes 33 yards for TD: "They may score 50"
*Bengals called for 12 men in huddle: "Whaaaaaaat?"
*Kate Walsh, car commercial, she says, "When you turn your car on, does it return the favor?": I say...."Hottest red head ever".
*Larson punts to 4-yd line...touched illegally by Hebert...brought out to 20-yd line: "I give up"
*TD pass to Whitten: "1 Mississipi, 2 Mississippi, 3 Mississippi...GET SOME PRESSURE!"
*After losing interest and playing in the backyard I return to the game.
TD TJ: "Fantasy points!"
*Rivers interception: "Yes....go....go." "Where the hell are the rest of their draft picks?"
*Graham FG cuts it to one with 14:02: "Alright....we've got a game"
*On-side kick: "Whaaaaaaat? They've got the ball! (As I run back into room) They are going to win this thing.........Casey! you've gotta see this!"
*Perry fumbles: "You have got to be kidding me!"
*TD T.O............"Nooooooooooooooooooooooo"
*TO TD pushes total over; 'I'm in good shape...gonna make some money"
*TD TJ........"TD Bengals!!.....Fantasy points!"
*2pt conversion attempt to Utecht: "Utecht? Utecht?"....replay reaction..."Poor throw by Carson"
*End of the game: "What's for dinnner?"
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Big East honors
Special Teams Player of the Week
Connor Barwin • Sr. • DE • Cincinnati • Hazel Park, Mich.
Barwin blocked two punts, including one that went out of the end zone for a safety, to give Cincinnati a lead it would not relinquish in the Bearcats’ 33-10 win at Marshall. He added three tackles, a sack, a pass breakup and a quarterback hurry.
Honor Roll
Mike Mickens, CB, Cincinnati — Had nine tackles, one interception and two pass breakups in a 33-10 win at Marshall. Tied the school’s career interceptions record (12).
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Clones news
CINCINNATI, Ohio - The Cincinnati Cyclones, the 2008 Kelly Cup champions, open the preseason on Friday night (October 10) against I-75 foe Dayton. The contest will be played at SportsPlus (10765 Reading Rd., Evendale) with a 7:30pm faceoff. Tickets are available at the door for $6 each.
The Cyclones have their first on-ice practice tomorrow (October 7) at SportsPlus. The practice will start at 10:30am and is open to the public. The Cyclones expect to have Barret Ehgoetz, Billy Irish-Baker and Sean Perkins from last year's championship team on ice for the first practice. Other players will begin to arrive from other camps in the days ahead.
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OSU news
COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Ohio State-Michigan State football game on Saturday, October 18, 2008, in East Lansing will kick off at 3:30 p.m. Eastern, the Big Ten Conference announced today.
The contest will be televised on a regional basis by ABC.
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Show preview
Marvin Lewis, 3pm
Topics
Bengals
UC, UK, OSU
Your weekend: Anyone to watch UC, OSU or UK? Did you go to Dallas? Did you find something better to do than watch/listen to the Bengals? Do tell.
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Hottest red head on TV?
Kate Walsh Mariska Hargitay
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What they are saying
*Geez, would somebody in Cincinnati put Chris Perry in touch with Tiki Barber? Tiki learned how to stop fumbling, and Perry better, too, otherwise the next thing he might lose is a job. -Clark Judge, CBS Sports
*If I'm Marvin Lewis, I'd puke at the next mention of a "moral victory.''-Peter King, SI
*The Bengals say Marvin Lewis isn't in jeopardy of being fired despite an 0-5 start. As long as Bengals management keeps bungling roster decisions, Lewis should be immune from job scrutiny.-John Clayton, ESPN
Seeing winless teams in Houston, Detroit, Cincinnati and St. Louis this late in the season. You get the feeling one of that foursome (my money is on Detroit) is going to make a serious run at 0-16. -Charles Robinson, YAHOO
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Stat of the day II
From listener Statman
Carson Palmer QB rating
2004 - 77.3
2005 - 101.1
2006 - 93.9
2007 - 86.6
2008 - 69.0
Prior to the injury - 90.2
Since the injury - 87.9
Stat of the day III
Notre Dame is unranked at 4-1 for the first time ever.
They have been 4-1 and 3-1-1 after five games on 27 previous occasions and were ranked each time.
Who would have thought?
Bengals 0-5
Dolphis 2-2
Falcons 3-2
Headlines read in Dallas
"Cowboys nearly blows it"
"More lucky than good"
"Cowboys almost bungle away a win"
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
No Willie Parker. No Rashard Mendenhall. No Carey Davis. No Kendall Simmons. No Marvel Smith late.
No problem.
Watching the Steelers come from behind to beat the Jacksonville Jaguars, 26-21, on the road last night after a short week and a body-bag Monday night game against the Baltimore Ravens brought back memories of something Bill Cowher always said after his team stood tall in the face of the roughest adversity:
"I've never been more prouder of a bunch of guys."
Well, Mike Tomlin was pretty darn proud after this one, too.
Photo/quote of the day
(AP photo/Matt Slocum)
"I enjoyed myself today," he said. "But it didn't go right for us as a team. We lost. The way we played is the way we need to play. We're going to be fine. The only way we can get out of this is to help ourselves."
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Cowboys players need more fire from their coach
Dallas Morning News
"It was my emotion," Jerry said of heading to the field in the third quarter. "In my own way, I was reminding everyone how important - not that they needed reminding - this game was. I added an additional impetus to it. This game was every bit as big as it was against Washington last week."
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Brooks not happy with UK's play
Lexington Herald Leader
If you saw the final score from Saturday's Kentucky-Alabama game, it probably gave you the impression that the Wildcats did OK. Even if you saw the game, you might have given UK kudos for hanging in there with the nation's No. 2 defense.
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Phil Simms analysis
Jim Nantz: "Marvin talked this week about the need to finish games"
Phil Simms: "Sometimes you don't finish games because you simply aren't good enough....the other team has more talent"
Also from Simms:
"There is a lot that makes you really like Chad and TJ. They can bring energy and leadership.....but they don't. And the one thing a team can't overcome is superstars that bring negative feelings.
Nantz: "You think their personalities dicate the emotion of this team?"
Simms: "Oh, you can see it"
Nantz: "When the Bengals were introduced as a team today you saw it"
Simms: "Chad and TJ the only players to run out with their helmets off"
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Sights seen in Dallas
Dallas Morning News
A disgruntled Bengals fan, wearing a Rudi Johnson jersey while sitting in the row in front of the press box, had a classic sign that borrowed from the old Peanuts cartoons to rip Cincinnati's owner. "GOOD GRIEF MIKEY BROWN. YOU'RE A BLOCK-HEAD," it read. There was a picture with Jerry Jones playing the role of Lucy, pulling the ball away as Brown tried to kick it.
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Bengals play it safe, cost themselves a win
Dallas Morning News
Desperate times did not produce desperate measures. Other than an onside kick in the fourth quarter, the winless Bengals were content to take as few chances as possible.
Jr's baserunning big for Sox
MLB.COM
"To be honest, I thought Griffey cheated," Guillen said. "I never thought he went back to the bag. That's good, smart baserunning. I think that was a big, big, huge play for us in that inning. Huge."
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Lewis appears safe in Cincinnati
Adam Schefter, NFL.COM
Very quietly, Bengals management has informed head coach Marvin Lewis that he is welcome to coach in Cincinnati as long as wants, according to a high-level Bengals source. It is as strong an indication to date that ownership has absolutely no plans to fire its head coach, certainly not now.
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Heard it from Hoard
GoBearcats.com
Has there ever been better proof that Brian Kelly is one of the best coaches in college football?
