1981 Cincinnati Reds View full size photo » One of the charming things about baseball is that it typically really means something if you get to the playoffs. If your team is good enough to survive 162 games with a great record, you most likely are one of the best teams in the league. The downside of that is that you can still be a very good team and not make it to the playoffs. Here are 5 such...
Bill Conlin: Ghosts of World Series past haunt Phillies We see you in the shadows, Ken Griffey Sr. The Phils led the Big Red Machine, 6-4, in the bottom of the ninth in 1976's Game 3. Then George Foster homered, Johnny Bench homered. Everybody walked off to a famous World Series with the Red Sox when Griffey scored Dave Concepcion with a one-out, bases-loaded single. Um, fact checking? LEE SHOWS HE'S...
Who: Outfielder Bobby Tolan Team: Cincinnati Reds Card: 1972 Topps Acquired: TTM 1/1 10/20/2009 (7 days) Comments: Bobby Tolan adds another autographed '72 Topps to the project . Coming to the Reds in 1969, Bobby added speed to a pretty decent lineup of sluggers. He played a pretty big role in the Reds reaching the World Series in both '70 and '72. But, with the emergence of George Foster and Ken Griffey...
by Mark Silva If CNN's Lou Dobbs drops the word "amnesty'' into most discussions of immigration, some of his critics say they aren't forgiving Dobbs. An ad calling on CNN to drop Dobbs apparently will air this week. On CNN. The cable news announcer's complaints about "broken borders'' have become a broken-record - "60 minutes of anti-immigrant hate'' -- according to the group whose...
Here we are on a bright Monday morning. It's our first day at our new desks. Kirsty in now opposite me with Christine next to me and Karen next to her. Opposite Karen is Dave and next to Dave and diagonally opposite me to the right is Maureen/Jo. Everyone is calm and talking about a singer who suddenly died (Gately)? I'm only half listening because I've got a stinker of a contract to sort out. Everyone...
I was just thinking that aging DOES have its benefits. Though the sports world we experience on a daily basis still attracts great interest from people of ALL ages, I DO feel sorry for those sports aficionados born within the past three decades or so. Why? Because if you were born after 1980........ * you didn't get to see the great Walter Payton carry the football in his prime--"Sweetness"...
ATHENS, Ga., Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- The George Foster Peabody Awards' 69th annual search for excellence in electronic media has begun. More than 100,000 "call for entries" alerts will be mailed worldwide, supplemented by ads in media-industry publications and Twitter messages. Origina...
With my '87 Topps Reds Project slowing to a virtual crawl, I've been itching for a new project to get going on. I've decided to attempt and get all the Cincinnati Reds in the 1972 Topps set autographed. It will be a good challenge for a lot of reasons, but not so tough that it's not worth going after. Here's a few reasons I've decided to take on this project: The '72 Reds were a fantastic team, and...
AP Photo/Charles SykesDiane Sawyer appears on ABC's "Good Morning America" show, in New York, Friday, August 21, 2009. When ABC announced this morning that Charlie Gibson will be retiring from “World News Tonight” in January, the network simultaneously welcomed a new anchor, a journalist who has won Emmys, Dupont Awards, Robert F. Kennedy awards, Investigative Reporters and...
Tom Lydon (ETF Trends) submits: Leveraged and inverse ETFs can be a boon or a bust, depending on an investor’s knowledge and skill in using the unique investment tool. Most people trade with this type of ETF in a short bursts, but there is a way to use this tool in a long-term strategy. In a study conducted on leveraged and inverse fund investments in the S&P 500, it is shown that that there...
It doesn't really feel like training camp anymore, but a few sessions still remain. The team hit the field Monday for one of their final three public sessions; after that, everything will be closed off and geared especially towards preparing for the regular season. Rapid Reports indicates that only about 300 fans attended practice on Monday. TRAINING CAMP REPORT - DAY 24 (8/24/09) Pool's Injury: If...
The Cleveland Browns today signed free agents defensive back Tra Battle, offensive lineman Corey Hilliard and tight end Nate Jackson, the club announced. In addition, the team terminated the contract of offensive lineman George Foster, waived tight end John Madsen and waived/injured defensive lineman Melila Purcell. Battle was originally signed as an undrafted free agent [...]
LB Kamerion Wimbley had a good day generating pressure. So did LB Alex Hall (not pictured), who registered a few sacks. View full size photo uploaded August 7, 2009 I was a bit busy throughout the day today, so I didn't have time to crank out a recap of the morning practice. Considering it's late in the day, rather than breaking what happened into two posts, everything will be lumped into this one...
Schenectady native Antonio Ferrera wasn’t quite sure how to react after he found out last week he was a winner of a George Foster Peabody Award for his work on the Home Box Office documentary “The Gates.”
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