Tom Archdeacon
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Award-winning columnist Tom Archdeacon is an old-school storyteller who writes about sports, the city, southwest Ohio and anything else that catches his fancy or yours.
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Game at PBS gives Meyer a hometown feel
While this was a day designed to get a glimpse of the future – the Ohio State Buckeyes annual spring game always serves as a primer to the fall season to come – Urban Meyer found himself looking far into the past Saturday afternoon. And the more he did, the ...
Arch: Familiar script, but with a twist
It was déjà vu … with a different ending. “As soon as I started coming down that big ramp to the court it all came back to me vividly,” said North Carolina A&T assistant coach Darren Corbett. “I remembered the first time I was here in Dayton for an NCAA ...
Bengals' Atkins sees dream come true
If there was ever a question about being able to fill the shoes of his football heritage, Geno Atkins has answered that. “I remember my mom telling me about how when I was real little I’d go into the dressing room when my dad played for the Saints and I’d ...
Dunlap proven to be 'face' of Bengals' defense
Although Carlos Dunlap claimed no one player is the face of the Cincinnati Bengals’ record-setting defense, there is no denying that the mug of the moment last Sunday belonged to him. You’ve probably seen the picture of him sitting on the elevated grandstand wall in the north end of Paul ...
Former Cincinnati Red Ryan Freel Commits Suicide
A Jacksonville station has just reported that former Cincinnati Reds player Ryan Freel committed suicide Saturday. He was 36. Freel - a human grass stain of a ballplayer who was known for the reckless abandon at which he attacked the game - played five seasons in Cincinnati. With the Reds, ...
Arch: Fans right to take pride in OSU
The Ohio State Buckeyes did so many wondrous things this season: • They overcame doubters and injuries and the disappointment of knowing they’d be denied postseason play because of transgressions not of their doing. • Saturday, they pushed aside Michigan, 26-21, in front of a crowd of 105,899, an Ohio ...
Jay Bruce on the booing Reds fans
CINCINNATI - Here’s how those boos that Jay Bruce would reflect on afterward came about: Cincinnati Reds reliever Jose Arredondo was roughed up by the San Francisco Giants when he came into Wednesday night’s National League Division Series game in the seventh inning. He gave up a double to Joaquin ...
Arch: Reds' pitching rotation durable, colorful
Sure, Aroldis Chapman and his 105-mph fastball lit up everybody’s radar gun, but the backbone of the Cincinnati Reds – the team’s perform-like-clockwork starting rotation – has pretty much flown under the national radar all season. They’re a colorful bunch, from Mat Latos’ body-covering tats and his 70-plus snakes and ...
Bengals' Nugent can't get it done vs. Dolphins
No NFL player’s fortunes can rise and fall and faster than those of a field-goal kicker. Mike Nugent was a case in point Sunday at Paul Brown Stadium. With 3:05 left in the game against Miami, Cincinnati Bengals coach Marvin Lewis put the outcome in Nugent’s hands — or, to ...
Miller’s words, actions make Meyer’s day
Urban Meyer had waited all his life for this moment.He said he had begun following Ohio State when he was 3 ½ or 4 years old. Growing up in Ashtabula, he had a framed picture of Woody Hayes hanging in his bedroom, alongside other Buckeye posters and memorabilia. In high ...
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