Jim’s Journal

The new head girls’ basketball coach at Jac-Cen-Del High is familiar to many Eagles’ fans–  it was announced Tuesday on social media that alumna Lilly Simon will be picking up that mantle, succeeding her own […]

A landmark for women’s pro basketball Monday, when as anticipated, the WNBA’s Indiana Fever drafted Iowa Hawkeyes star Caitlin Clark Number 1.  Clark, the all-time leading college basketball scorer, man or woman, led her Iowa […]

It’s a big change in the weather starting the new week, so in the diamond lives, just about everybody should be able to get their games played today.  The softball schedule includes Oldenburg Academy going […]

On this soggy Friday afternoon/evening, we’ve got some more weather-related info to pass along to you.  Rain’s stopped in some places, but could be continuing in others–  it’s been a pretty wet week across southeastern […]

Just as rain picked up around here Wednesday afternoon, it did in Cincinnati, too.   After a couple hours hoping the drops would move along and let the Reds baseball game against the Brewers be played, […]

It looked for a while early this afternoon like things might dry out and allow a second straight day of softball and baseball for our local high schoolers, but that seems not to be happening […]

It was a huge Monday night for the Reds, battling the Brewers at Great American Ballpark.  Shortstop Elly De La Cruz really got hold of the ball, a couple times.  This was the first… That […]

Tonight it’s the official end of the college basketball season, with the NCAA men’s championship game between Purdue’s Boilermakers and the defending champs, the top-seeded Huskies from Connecticut.  Both were Number 1’s coming into the […]

Friday was Final Four night in women’s college basketball, and in the evening’s first game, South Carolina’s Lady Gamecocks stayed undefeated for the season, dispatching the Wolfpack of North Carolina State, 78-59. The game the […]

Wow!  What an epic finish at historic Hinkle Fieldhouse last night, in the National Invitation Tournament men’s basketball final between Indiana State’s Sycamores and the Pirates of Seton Hall. It was tied at halftime, then […]

After a rain delay of nearly 4 hours, Frankie Montas was still ready to go for the Reds in Philadelphia last night.  The tarp came off the field and they managed to get the game […]

On the big-league baseball diamond in Philadelphia, Spencer Steer was the man for the Reds last night, when the game was tied 2-2 after 9 innings.  With the bases loaded in the top of the […]