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David Jablonski grew up buying old copies of Sports Illustrated for 10 cents at the local public library, helping him to start training to become a sports writer. He has always loved sports and especially the local teams in Cincinnati, so working in sports seemed natural for him. He also enjoys playing basketball three times a week.
Jablonski started at the News-Sun in May of 2001 after a two-year stint with the Press Journal in Vero Beach, Fla. He covers Springfield-area sports of all sorts, also Wittenberg and Wright State athletics and Dayton. Dragons. He graduated from Fayetteville High School in 1995. He majored in journalism at Ohio University, graduating in 1999. He completed internships at the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, the South Bend Tribune and the Scripps Howard News Service.
Reds pitcher Johnny Cueto came off the mound in the sixth inning Sunday at Great American Ball Park with the game tied 3-3, knowing his day on the mound had ended. His teammates hadn’t scored since the first, and he was quite vocal about what he wanted to see in ...
Reds manager Dusty Baker had to cringe when he saw Ryan Ludwick slide headfirst into third base Monday. Baker couldn’t have predicted Ludwick would dislocate his shoulder, but he knew it was a possibility. Anything is a possibility when you slide headfirst, and that’s why Baker isn’t a fan. Baker ...
Derrick Robinson, the newest Cincinnati Red, never had a locker quite like this in the minor leagues. He was asked how it compared. “It doesn’t compare,” he said with a laugh. Robinson, a 25-year-old outfielder from Gainesville, Fla., was called up to the big leagues for the first time Wednesday ...
Mat Latos wasn’t about to give away any state secrets in advance of his first start of the 2013 season. The 25-year-old Reds right-hander said Monday he was “excited to get the season started for sure.” Then when asked what he would take away from what he saw from his ...
Only two Reds who started Monday against the Angels weren’t in the Opening Day lineup a year ago against the Marlins: center fielder Shin-Soo Choo, who reached base in his first two at-bats, and third baseman Todd Frazier. That’s great stability because only five players who started in 2011 returned ...
Great American Ball Park rocked as never before six months ago. The crowd at Game 5 of the National League Divisional Series on Oct. 11 tried to will the Reds back from a 6-0 deficit against the Giants, and it almost succeeded. No one will forget Jay Bruce’s 12-pitch at-bat ...
Indiana coach Tom Crean stalked the court Thursday at UD Arena with the kind of intensity you might expect at the Final Four — not at a practice the day before the Hoosiers’ opening game in the NCAA tournament. “Let’s go!” he shouted. “Let’s go. Other side.” The Hoosiers switched ...
Who: No. 3 seed Wright State (21-11) at No. 1 seed Valparaiso (25-7) When: 9 p.m. Tuesday Where: Athletics-Recreation Center, Valparaiso, Ind. Radio: 100.3/ESPN What: Horizon League championship game Probable Wright State starters Matt Vest, 6-5, Jr., G, 5.5 Kendall Griffin, 6-4, So., G, 6.1 Jerran Young, 6-6, Jr., F, ...
The Cincinnati Reds and their fans have moved on, the pain of the October playoff collapse fading by the day. That seemed to be the theme of the annual Redsfest, which began Friday and continues today. The scene at the Duke Energy Convention Center was an assault on the senses. ...
Today the weight of the Reds’ world falls on the shoulders of Mat Latos, who was 7 in the fall of 1995 when the Reds last clinched a postseason series. The right-hander, who was traded to the Reds last December, gets the ball in Game 5 of the National League ...
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