Sports

I’ve watched the Cincinnati Reds for my entire life. I have been through the 60-win seasons. I watched the 2012 meltdown, I showed up for the 2022 100-loss season. But now, more than ever before, am I frustrated with the Cincinnati Reds. The lack of performance, being outmanaged and losing yet another series after the break has me just wishing for the Bengals season to arrive already. It’s becoming hard to watch and it is time for a drastic change. I hate a negative column, but here we go:

The Cincinnati Reds have unfortunately fallen back far enough to become sellers at the deadline. Their lackluster performance in Washington has officially become what I believe to be the nail in the coffin for this Reds season. I guess Joe Biden wasn’t the only person to drop out of the race in Washington this weekend. Of course, I hope I am wrong, but barring another 10-game win streak, I just don’t see Cincinnati making a run at the playoffs this year. Inconsistencies, injuries and just poor performances put this team six games below .500 at the time of writing, dead last in the National League Central, 10.5 games behind Milwaukee and 4 games back from a Wild Card spot. There are only two teams with worse records than the Cincinnati Reds in the National League, after a winning season from Cincinnati just a year ago.

KFC went 15-0 in C-League baseball regular season play at Richard Shaffer Park.

In honor of the Big Ten expanding to 18 teams, here are 18 questions for the league and Ohio State heading into the annual Big Ten Football Media Days on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in Indianapolis.

The Greenfield Middle School Tigers football program held a seventh and eighth-grade camp from July 8 through July 11.

July 15th has arrived quickly, and for baseball fans, it’s sad to see that the season is more than halfway over. The good news though? The Cincinnati Reds are very much still alive with a record of 47-50. While it wasn’t an ideal start to the year, and as we know, injuries have plagued this roster, but all things considered, Cincinnati is in an “ok” spot at the break. Let’s take a look at some quick facts and comments on the first half of the season:

After sweeping the Yankees in the Bronx, I was more than optimistic with a 10-game home stand approaching. Win seven of those and you’re above .500 before the All-Star Break. However, the Reds once again let us down and failed to take a single game from the Tigers at home.

Twenty-eight kids turned out Saturday for the annual Hillsboro Elks Youth Golf Clinic. The clinic was started 35 years ago by Gerold “Buzzard” Wilkin, who has been assisted for the past 30 years by Joe Shelton. Instruction was provided by Joe Shelton, Wilkin, Rick Shelton and Matt Sharkey. Papa John’s, Ponsderosa Steakhouse and the Elks provided free food and drinks for those participating this year.

Jonathan India is the best batter in all of baseball over the last few weeks and is having the best stretch of baseball in his entire career, including his rookie of the year campaign. As of Monday morning he was 17-30 with seven singles and 10 doubles in his last seven games. He hit a double in seven straight games, which is a new Cincinnati record. Among National League second basemen, he ranked fourth in batting average (.279), first in OBP (.383), and first in BB% (12.9%).

The Lady Mambas, a southern Ohio AAU girls basketball team, represented Ohio at the 2024 National Basketball Teammate Championship Tournament in Rock Hill, South Carolina and came away with a national championship.