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MORRISON: Reds rebuild moving rapidly

For this die-hard Cincinnati Reds fan of nearly 50 years, the 2022 season was just about as brutal of a season as I can remember. First off a labor dispute delayed the season and the offseason and the minute the dispute was settled and things were back to normal, the Reds continued a rebuild that had started the previous season by trading popular players such as Sonny Gray, Jesse Winker and Eugenio Suarez before the season began. Some ill-advised comments by the son of Reds owner Bob Castellini on opening day added to the frustration as did the fact the 2022 Reds began the season ...

HOLLAND: Reds doing their best Etta Express impression

Entering the 2023 NCAA Division III Super Regionals against visiting Misericordia, Marietta College baseball coach Brian Brewer noted that the Cougars played a similar style of baseball as the Pioneers. “They bunt, steal and try to wreak a lot of havoc on the bases, which we try to do as ...

BENNETT: Things I’d like to see from the WVSSAC

Although summer is officially underway, David Price doesn’t start his new job at the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission until the first of next month. With current executive director Bernie Dolan heading into retirement for some well deserved rest and relaxation, it will be interesting to see how the transition goes. Perhaps some folks are unaware, but the number of sports writers in the Mountain State continues to dwindle by the day it seems. Suffice it to say, getting new blood into the business is anything but easy. One thing which always seems to be easy, ...

BENNETT: Bye-bye to the 1-and-1

The final three days of last week were pretty crazy on several levels. Thursday was an extremely long one due to the all-state baseball meeting and covering Tyler Consolidated’s first game at the state tournament. On Friday, I had the honor of taking in another Battle Against Cystic Fibrosis Football Classic game at St. Marys. At one point prior to kickoff, I was having a conversation with someone and they told me how they always enjoyed my columns when I would write about summer vacation. I don’t have any exploits for vacation yet, but I was able to take this past Saturday off ...

HERTZEL: New Big 12 lacks football power to build upon

MORGANTOWN — As the aura of further expansion gathers around the Big 12 as it tries to keep pace with the changing power structure in college athletics, one wonders if it can do so with the football situation as it is shaking out. We head into the summer with it looking more and more likely that the conference which West Virginia calls its home is ready for another round of expansion as it loses its two richest and most historically powerful football schools in Oklahoma and Texas to the already rich, deep and vibrant SEC, while adding a hodgepodge of Power 5 wannabes in Cincinnati, ...

BENNETT: Brett Carson feels at home at Marietta

Marietta College senior Brett Carson considers himself just one of the guys and wants to do whatever he can on the baseball diamond to help the Pioneers win. Following Saturday’s doubleheader sweep of Heidelberg University, I had a chance to talk with the two-way player in the pressbox ...