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Similarities abound between Brandon Phillips, Joe Morgan
Joe Morgan once told Brandon Phillips, “Don’t try be like me. Try to be better than me.”“That’s going to be pretty hard,” Phillips told him.The two Reds second baseman, separated by decades and ballparks, remain close in more ways than one.They are neighbors at Great American Ball Park. Morgan, a ...
Reds return home with third-best record in baseball
A 7-2 road trip left the Reds with the third-best record (29-18) in baseball through Wednesday, and the players’ reward was a day off Thursday before a three-game series beginning tonight against the Cubs at Great American Ball Park.Third baseman Todd Frazier asked his Twitter followers for advice on what ...
Raiders need to develop secondary ball handler
Billy Donlon will get extra time with his players in the fall to get ready for the 2013-14 season.A new NCAA rule allows men’s basketball programs to start practicing 42 days before their first game. That’s two weeks earlier than in the past. Teams can practice 30 times in that ...
Triad gets redemption in sectional final
The Triad players chanted one word after a 2-0 victory over Miami East in a Division III sectional baseball final: “Redemption!”That one word said everything. A year ago, the Cardinals’ postseason hopes were dashed in the sectional championship game with a 3-1 loss to Northwestern, and they had that loss ...
Tecumseh’s Nicewaner makes good on HR promise
This kind of thing happens only in the movies, which is why goosebumps rose on the arms of Bret Nicewaner when he told the story.Last Thursday, Nicewaner underwent a cardiac catheterization, a procedure that would finally tell him why he couldn’t walk far without becoming short of breath. He would ...
Greenville blanks Shawnee in sectional final
Greenville softball coach Jerrod Newland tried to rally his girls after the fourth inning, a frame in which the Green Wave made some progress without really doing much of anything — three ground-ball outs. “Great inning!” Newland said. “Great inning! We put the ball in play.” That was a good ...
Raiders lose regular-season finale to UIC
After an emotional speech praising his seven seniors, after many tears and just as many hugs, Wright State baseball coach Rob Cooper had one more thing to add. “Seniors eat first,” he said. It wasn’t the happiest of postgame meals. A senior class that won Horizon League regular-season championships in ...
Youthfule Shawnee boys set CBC relay record
Alex McCrory watched his Shawnee teammates run the 4x200-meter relay with intense interest. He knew what was at stake.“If Dusty gets a good leg, this might be the record,” he said.Sophomore Dusty Seelig, on his way to winning the most outstanding athlete award in the Central Buckeye Conference Kenton Trail ...
Bradbury looking forward to summer practices
It will be a busier summer than usual for Wright State women’s basketball coach Mike Bradbury and the Raiders. In a couple of weeks, they’ll start summer practices, and they get eight weeks of practice time.A year ago, for the first time, Division I men’s coaches got to work with ...
Early runs carry Shawnee past Graham
Written on a dry-erase board in the home dugout Thursday at Gary Flora Field were six words to live by for the Shawnee baseball team: “Do or die time! Brave strong.”The Braves hadn’t won a tournament game since 2009, meaning no one on the current team had experienced postseason success ...
Dragons break four-game losing streak
Johnny Cueto’s second rehab start came at just the right time for the Dayton Dragons. Last-place Dayton (13-24) needed a boost after a four-game losing streak and got it as the Reds ace Cueto threw five scoreless innings in a 6-2 victory over the West Michigan Whitecaps on Tuesday at ...
Cueto ‘feeling ready’ after second rehab start
Johnny Cueto grabbed a piece of bubblegum, pulled his Dayton Dragons hat over his Cincinnati Reds skull cap and went to work on Tuesday — just another night at Fifth Third Field for the Dragon turned Red turned Dragon. The second rehab start for the injured Reds ace went about ...
Junior golf tournament returns to Windy Knoll in June
John Wilkinson had a busy winter. Golf season never stops for one of the area’s top teaching pros.Wilkinson moved his Down Under Par Golf Academy from a building on Leffel Lane to the Yost Superior Building down the street from the library in downtown Springfield. Now Wilkinson is preparing for ...
Lutz stars on Mother’s Day as Reds sweep Brewers
Donald Lutz called his mom Marlen in Germany before Sunday’s Reds game to wish her a happy Mother’s Day. He worried the connection would be bad, but everything worked out. She heard him well enough to detect a hitch in his voice, and Lutz told her he’s been sick. “Make ...
Arroyo wins despite not having best stuff
Bronson Arroyo admitted to his coaches he didn’t have his best stuff after the sixth inning Sunday and told them to be prepared if the Brewers figured that out. He had thrown 65 pitches, he said, but it felt like 90. It was just one of those days. Fortunately for ...
Hanigan looks good in return from DL
Reds catcher Ryan Hanigan’s performance Friday in his first game back from the disabled list did not go unnoticed by his teammates.“You doubled your average,” Ryan Ludwick joked before Saturday’s game.“Nowhere to go but up,” said Hanigan from across the clubhouse.Hanigan went 2-for-4 to raise his average from .079 to ...
Los Rojos rough up Brewers
Jay Bruce may have inadvertently created the next Reds promotion, one sure to make baseball history for all the wrong reasons.Asked if he liked the Los Rojos jerseys the Reds wore in Saturday’s 13-7 victory over the Brewers at Great American Ball Park, Bruce said he couldn’t be less interested ...
Hanigan looks strong in return from DL
Just two batters into his first game off the disabled list on Friday against the Brewers, Ryan Hanigan proved himself ready and healthy. He chased down a foul pop and snagged it with a diving catch behind the plate at Great American Ball Park.“It was a fun play to get ...
Phillips stars as Reds beat Brewers
Reds manager Dusty Baker called it the greatest double play at second base he’s ever seen. That’s saying something because he’s managed and played in more than 5,000 Major League games.Sam LeCure, the pitcher on the mound at the time second baseman Brandon Phillips performed his magic act, wasn’t sure ...
Reds activate Hanigan from DL
Catcher Ryan Hanigan was watching the Reds game on TV from home when his backup, Devin Mesoraco, hit the game-tying home run in the ninth against the Braves on Tuesday.Until that point, it had kind of been a “bummer game,” Hanigan said. Seconds later, as everyone was processing Mesoraco’s heroics, ...
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