Billy Reed: Can’t wait for ‘Play Ball!’ even for half a season and dreaming of Reds fulfilling their potential
When last we heard from the Cincinnati Reds – you remember them, right? – they were playing spring-training games, working…
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Billy Reed: The Turtle Derby has a nice, slow ring to it — how about another with a political twist?
In my 56 years on the Kentucky Derby trail, I had never heard the Turtle Derby story. It sounds preposterous,…
Billy Reed: Hard to take, but coronavirus is victor on first Saturday in May; there’s an at-home party
The Kentucky Derby has been a big part of life ever since I covered my first one on May 7,…
Billy Reed: I first met Mitch when we were the hapless Giants of the Pony League; what happened to him?
My relationship with Mitch McConnell began, oddly enough, on the baseball field at the Naval Ordnance Plant in South Louisville….
Billy Reed: About Americans, Ugly Americans, and a world needing first responders more than sports
Fairly early in my career, I made it a point to get to know A.B. “Happy” Chandler, the former two-time…
Billy Reed: Remembering Al Michaels and other icons of sports announcing, including Marty Brennaman
During a recent Facetime conversation with my granddaughters Caroline and Lucy, they surprised me by asking if I knew Al…
Billy Reed: Through a coronavirus lens, still seeing compensation for college coaches is way out of line
As I’ve followed the scary Coronavirus story on TV and the internet, I’ve been looking for stories about how football…
Billy Reed: In times like these, we really need baseball to lift our spirits — and there is a precedent
I am well aware that during this Coronavirus catastrophe, sports journalists are high on the list of unnecessary workers. Many…
Billy Reed: We have no choice to make the best of it and hope that, in the end, coronavirus doesn’t win
Broadway has gone dark, a couple of Disney theme parks have shut down, and professional sports leagues have ended their…
Billy Reed: After the most unconventional of college basketball seasons, I’m backing the Bears. Maybe…
This has been the most confounding college basketball season ever, a Las Vegas casino sort of thing in which Duke…
Billy Reed: Covington’s Tom Thacker earned his place in basketball history; UC was just the beginning
In the late 1950s, a lot of young black athletes in and around Cincinnati were excited by the exploits of…
Billy Reed: Don’t underestimate the Dayton Flyers — and keep your eyes on Obi; could be quite a story
I was there the night in 1967 when Dayton’s Dan Obravac jumped center against 7-foot-2 UCLA sophomore Lew Alcindor (later…
Billy Reed: Knight, walking slowly, needing help with his balance, was (sort of) back at IU’s Assembly Hall
So here came Bob Knight, making the journey he had made hundreds of times. Except this time, it was different….
Billy Reed: Looking for the coaches who teach values and character — and not just pursuit of big money
My interest in sports has been tempered by what’s happening these days in our government. It’s difficult for me to…
Billy Reed: Somewhere in Super Bowl pile of hype, gambling, commercialism is . . .a football game
The Super Bowl is not a football game as much as a celebration of commercialism, gambling, and show business, not…
Billy Reed: Kobe Bryant owned the air; he soared — until a helicopter crash brought him down
It is ironic that Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter crash because the air was his second home. In every…
Billy Reed, legendary Kentucky sportswriter and journalist, joins NKyTribune team as sports columnist
Legendary sportswriter Billy Reed is joining the NKyTribune’s strong stable of experienced journalists as a weekly columnist writing on all…
Billy Reed: Breckinridge is one of only three Kyians to serve as U.S. vice president, but remove statue
Since becoming a state in 1792, Kentucky has produced three men who have served as Vice-President of the United States….
Billy Reed: Betting on baseball was one thing, but latest charges against Rose the final straw
Probably to my discredit, I always gave Pete Rose the benefit of the doubt. I believed him when he said…
Billy Reed: Kentucky High School Basketball Hall of Fame is about jumping and reaching for the stars
“Well, one of my dreams has always been, on a Sunday morning, to be coming home on a fire truck,…
Billy Reed: King of the hot dog eating world Joey Chestnut may just be the last American hero
As I was watching Joey “Jaws” Chestnut chomp his way to another championship in the Nathan’s World Hot-Dog-Eating championship, I…
Billy Reed: For underachieving Reds, the (Bryan) Price just isn’t right — it’s time to make a move
When the Cincinnati Reds hired Bryan Price to replace the fired Dusty Baker as manager, I wrote that it was…