If it didn’t really sink in when he slipped to the 10th pick in the 1998 NBA draft, Paul Pierce got the message when he went home to Los Angeles to play in the All-Star Game and got booed by…
Before he became a force of nature on the hardwood, Ben Wallace experienced working on cotton fields in the sweltering backwoods of Alabama. Wallace grew up in White Hall, a small town named after a plantation in the state’s ninth-poorest county…
As an undrafted, undersized center who averaged less than six points per game for his career, Ben Wallace has nevertheless battled his way into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2021 as one of the best defensive players…
Absent from a Lane Stadium broadcasting booth for six seasons, Bill Roth is scheduled to work two games in the next two weeks from his familiar perch, with Shane Beamer’s head coaching debut sandwiched between.
Before Saturday’s Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona International Speedway, NASCAR will celebrate the legacy of NASCAR Hall of Fame driver Wendell Scott and present the Scott family with a trophy commemorating the driver’s historic victory on Dec. 1, 1963…
CINCINNATI — It was a big night for Marty Brennaman, as he's the first to enter the Reds Hall of Fame as a broadcaster. Brennaman spent 46 years behind the microphone calling Cincinnati Reds games on the radio. He was…
CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Marty Brennaman will make history as the first broadcaster inducted into the Reds Hall of Fame on Aug. 27. He and his wife, Amanda, talk about this honor, who he's most looking forward to seeing at the…
The Missouri Tigers flew to Tucson to play in the 1998 Insight.com Bowl at Arizona Stadium, although Mizzou coach Larry Smith told his players another story. “It’s Ricky Hunley Stadium,’’ he said. “You’ll see Ricky’s name and number on the wall.’’ In…
Billy Wagner doesn’t have a plaque hanging in the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York, just yet, but he was part of another Hall Call on Saturday.
While at Hermitage High during the late 1950s, Gene Alley hoped to attend the University of Richmond on a basketball scholarship. His father died when Alley was 2. “My mother, I don’t know how she did it, raising four children,”…