20 teams to converge for softball tourney April 1-2
Assuming it stops snowing, the largest in-season high school fastpitch softball tournament in Northern Kentucky in recent memory will take place April 1-2 at RiverShore complex in Hebron. Twenty teams will take part in the Tournament of Champions, including...
Posted: 3/30/2011 12:41 PM in Press Preps
Darnell Wilks in Final Four Dunk Contest
Tomorrow night on ESPN2 at 9 PM, Darnell Wilks will be in the Final Four slam dunk contest. He's going to be joined by Will Coleman from Memphis, Justin Burrell from St John's, Gilbert Brown from Pittsburgh, Justin Tubbs from East Tennessee State, Billy...
Posted: 3/30/2011 12:28 PM in Bearcats Blog
Joey Votto. Johnny Bench.
Our friends over at Cincinnati.com have conducted interviews with a couple of pretty good hitters. First, there’s a video interview with Joey Votto. You may have heard of Votto; he won the National League MVP award last year. Johnny Bench was a pretty...
Posted: 3/30/2011 12:15 PM in Redleg Nation
Red Reposter - Season prediction season
Joey Votto: Helluva GuyHe's smart, he's centered, he's humble, he's driven, AND he's handsome. We have the best in the business here, folks. And that's not just the fanboy talking. It sometimes strikes me that his season last year was one of the very
Posted: 3/30/2011 12:08 PM in Red Reporter
Dreaming of a White Opening Day
This is the visage out my window. Sure, I’m in downtown Indianapolis, but it isn’t that far from downtown Indianapolis to downtown Cincinnati when you’re a snowstorm. Snowstorms go further than that all the time. Will Opening Day be the first … [visit...
Posted: 3/30/2011 12:05 PM in Red Hot Mama
Deer Park pounding the oval
By Scott Springer • sspringer@communitypress.com While many of the area track teams and/or athletes were taking the spring break off, the blue collar mentality of Deer Park marched on. With some of his counterparts treading water or making footprints...
Posted: 3/30/2011 11:48 AM in Press Preps
Dudukovich: My top five basketball players
Winter sports season has officially been over for three days, but I just can’t let it go. With that said, here are the top five boys basketball players I saw this winter. Remember, I didn’t see everybody (this includes Semaj Christon)–just teams on my...
Posted: 3/30/2011 11:40 AM in Press Preps
Amazon women look for long strides
By Scott Springer • sspringer@communitypress.com Like a lot of Cincinnati Hills League teams, Madeira’s girls track squad must rely on young talent coming in, multi-sport student-athletes, and a little coaxing from the coach. Natalie McEwan has been around...
Posted: 3/30/2011 11:38 AM in Press Preps