Bengals
The Bengals today made the following roster moves:
* Signed rookie LB Emmanuel Lamur to the roster from the Bengals practice squad. Lamur (6-4, 232; Kansas State) signed with the Bengals in May as a college free agent. He played in all four of the team’s preseason games, logging six tackles. He was waived on Aug. 31 and signed Sept. 1 to the practice squad.
* Placed second-year LB Dontay Moch on the Reserve/Non-Football Illness list, due to chronic migraines. Moch played in one game this season, Oct. 14 at Cleveland.
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Reds/MLB
Peers tab Billy Hamilton for stardom
MLB.com
MLB.com conducted a survey of the participants in the 2012 Rising Stars Game, asking each a simple question: Who in the game, other than yourself, do you think is the most likely to become a Major League star? A total of 34 players responded, providing a wide range of responses.
There was no runaway winner, though two up-the-middle players did tie for the most votes, one just starting on his pro career, another just starting on a new position. Mariners catching prospect Mike Zunino and Reds center fielder Billy Hamilton tied with five votes apiece
Chicago White Sox have promoted Buddy Bell to VP/Assistant GM.
Where Cincinnati ranks in World Series viewership
Clip and Save: Explaining qualifying offers in free agency
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Bengals/NFL
Former Bearcat shaves his head for a cause
Broncos rookie, former Bearcat will attend UC game Saturday
NFL Films preview of Bengals vs Broncos
Flashback
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Show preview
6:05, Sports Talk
Guest
Steve Wolter, 8:05
Topics
Bengals: A season at the crossroads
Fan Behavior
Reds: Free agency starts at midnight
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Reds
Reds 2013 Top 5 prospects
Top 50 Free Agents
SI
12. Angel Pagan
Age: 31
Position: OF
2012 Stats: .288/.338/.440, 8 HR, 56 RBI, 29 SB
Current Team: Giants
Best Fit: Reds
The Giants were the obvious winners of the December 2011 trade in which they acquired Pagan from the Mets for Andres Torres and Ramon Ramirez. Pagan had an excellent all-around season, and San Francisco's surge to the World Series title really took off when it put him back in the leadoff spot in early August. The Reds' top off-season priority -- perhaps their only off-season priority -- is to acquire a leadoff-hitting centerfielder. Should they find themselves outbid for Bourn (and perhaps Upton), they could turn to Pagan.
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Bengals
Gut Check Time
From listener Luke
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College football
Stacey picks The Mount
From Mt St Joseph
Son of Caleb Stacey Sr. and Tiffany Morgan, Caleb Stacey comes to the Mount from the University of Cincinnati/Oak Hills High School. Coming out of high school Caleb was ranked the seventeenth best offensive guard in the country! At 6' 4" and 285 lbs Caleb serves as the most highly touted recruit in MSJ history! Caleb is both large in stature as well as prestige and we are very excited to have such a high caliber player on our roster. Caleb will be majoring in Physical Therapy and be coming in for the Spring Semester of 2013.
*Stacey originally committed to Michigan, switched to UC, and then opted not to play college football.
(Photo courtesy of USA Football)
February 2012: Caleb Stacey signs with UC in Austin, Texas as he prepared for the 2012 International Bowl.
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Remember him?
Xavier opens exhibition play vs Kentucky State at Cintas Center on Saturday (7pm).
Darnell Williams, who ranks 15th on Xavier’s all-time scoring list with 1,572 points from 1995-2000, is in his first season as an assistant coach on the Kentucky State University staff.
(Enquirer photo)
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Congrats
(Courtesy Toronto Argonauts)
Former UC QB ZacH Collaros led a game winning drive for the Toronto Argonauts last night in Canadian Football League action. The Argos beat Hamilton 43-40 on a 51-yard field goal with no time remaining. Collaros, the 4th string QB, saw his first action of the season. Last night was the final regular season game. The Argos had wrapped up a playoff spot entering the game.
Collaros was 7 for 11, for 101 yards and a TD for the game. Earlier in the game he drove Toronto 100 yards on nine plays and threw a TD pass. Collaros also led a Toronto drive that ended in a field goal. The game winning drive started with 1:11 left on the clock.
Highlights here: Zach has back to back nice passes, including the TD, at the 4:44 mark. His game winning drive starts at the 7:02 mark.
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Reds
MLB free agency starts at midnight. Here is a Hot Stove Tracker.
Top 50 free agents and predictions for destinations here.
Billy Hamilton update: .214 BA, .298 OBP in 11 games in Arizona Fall League
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Event for a cause
Nate Jones (Pendleton County/NKU) had a fantastic rookie season for the Chicago White Sox. He was 8-0 2.39 in 65 appearances. Thursday, November 8, Nate is having a benefit night at Edwardo's in Falmouth from 6-10 pm. 10% of Edwardo's earnings from food, drinks, and tips will be donated. There will also be a silent auction with lots of Chicago White Sox items such as several signed baseballs, an Adam Dunn bat, a team signed jersey & bat, and more. Nate will be there to sign autographs and take pictures for a small donation, which will go towards the benefit. This all will go towards feeding families in Falmouth for Thanksgiving as well as Shop With a Cop.
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Bengals
Blog poll question results. With a 3-4 record and 9 games remaining, pick the Bengals final record:
10-6 or better (1%)
9-7 (6%)
8-8 (11%)
7-9 (18%)
6-10 (38%)
5-9 or less (25%)
What they are saying in Denver:
Broncos' OL must handle Bengals' middle men pass rush
Champ Bailey 'savors' chance to cover AJ Green
Fan behavior
Treatment of fans at Bengals game upsetting
Letters to the Editor, Enquirer
we were spit on, had beer thrown at us, and were verbally abused by a group of Bengals fans. We paid a good deal of money to see the game and for three hours endured being called disgusting names and had profanity hurled at us. We called the “JERK line” twice and even reported them to the police. The officer asked my husband if he “realised we were at a football game?” as if this excused the behavior.
Babin rips Eagles fan section for 'vile' chants
CSNPhilly.com
... during the game there was a good section of fans chanting some of the most vile things I’ve ever heard,” Babin said. “Not just at a football game, but in life, in general. Talking about attacking Coach (Andy Reid), talking about people’s wives and kids and chanting them. And I just thought there was no place for that in the NFL, none whatsoever.
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UC football
UC, Syracuse know cost of poor special teams, turnovers
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College basketball
Bearcats try to hurry to a title
AP
CINCINNATI (AP) - Point guard Cashmere Wright thought about Cincinnati's offense last season - a half-court approach that revolved around power forward Yancy Gates - and shuddered.
"Dreadful,'' Wright said. "Horrible.''
The Bearcats are done with it.
"I'll tell you what: If we see that, it's a bad season going on,'' the senior said. "Something ain't right.''
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Stuff
This is cool
Surprise reunion
Central Oregonian
“This is the coolest thing I have been a part of,” said Crook County JV?coach Ernie Brooks on his Facebook account.
Captains from both teams marched to the center of the field prior to the start of the game to the announcement that a special guest would have the honor of doing the coin toss. When Crook County captain Michael Seyl turned around to see who the special guest was, he was surprised to see his mother, Sergeant First Class Misti Chastain, standing behind him in combat fatigues.
Chastain had been deployed in Kabul, Afghanistan, for the past 14 months. Although, Seyl knew that his mother had returned to the United States, he did not know when she would make it back to Prineville.
Marathon presses on as backlash builds
NY Times
With the death count from Hurricane Sandy growing, hundreds of thousands still without power, and air, rail and ferry service struggling to resume, some runners and elected officials have called for Sunday’s marathon to be canceled or postponed. Police, fire and other essential public services, they said, should be focused on helping those most in need.
First responders are not the only ones questioning the wisdom of holding the race. People on Staten Island are particularly angry that their borough is being used as a jumping-off point for the race while critical services for those stranded by the storm are not getting through.
The extra point must go
Washington Post
What’s the point of the extra point? If the NFL success rate is over 99%, why even have it? Why not simply give 7 points for a touchdown and allow a team to choose to gamble the 7th point on a two-point conversion attempt? It would shorten the games and might reduce injuries ever so slightly. It would also end the farce that the kick has become.
Blast from the past
Howard Cosell does halftime highlights of games from Week 11 of the 1972 NFL season. This was broadcast at halftime of the Monday Night Football game between the Miami Dolphins and St. Louis Cardinals, on November 27, 1972.
Sports stars sell memories, beat tax increase
Yahoo
a slew of sports memorabilia is on the market, coincidentally or not, just ahead of possible tax increases that could eat up some of the proceeds.
Also up for auction in coming weeks are baseball star Ozzie Smith's Gold Gloves, Evander Holyfield's boxing championship belts and an original of the agreement Pete Rose signed when he was banned from baseball for life in 1989.
"Sounds like a bunch of guys with full expectations that the Bush tax cuts are going to expire by year's end and not be back for next year," said Steve Gill, associate professor of accounting at San Diego State's Lamden School of Accountancy.
And starting Jan. 1, there will be a new Medicare tax on income from investments for higher-earning people. The IRS hasn't issued rules yet, so money from the sale of collectibles may be subject to the new levy.
Digital age makes ticket stubs a relic of the past
