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Tom Archdeacon

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Award-winning columnist Tom Archdeacon is an old-school storyteller who writes about sports, the city, southwest Ohio and anything else that catches his fancy… or yours.

Blog: Through the Arch

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Despite knee injury, Ballard a champion

10:53 PM Monday, February 6, 2012

It was the most-heart wrenching scene of Sunday’s Super Bowl.

Early in the fourth quarter, Jake Ballard pulled himself up from the New York Giants bench, steadied himself on his already badly damaged left knee and then tried to run along the sideline.

Archdeacon: Manning puts 'Eli' in Elite

6:53 AM Monday, February 6, 2012

INDIANAPOLIS — He ended Super Bowl week the exact same way he started it.

Eli Manning left the other guys sweating.

Ex-OSU player faces off against New England in Super Bowl

10:15 PM Friday, February 3, 2012

INDIANAPOLIS — Every morning at Saint Mary School in Lancaster they start with a prayer and Principal Carlton Rider announces the saint of the day.

Ochocinco's silence is speaking volumes

10:27 PM Tuesday, January 31, 2012

INDIANAPOLIS — Nothing Chad Ochocinco has ever said has been more surprising.

Caught in a crush of people with cameras, microphones and open notebooks at Tuesday’s Media Day for Super Bowl XLVI, Ochocinco — once the record-setting receiver and chatterbox of the Cincinnati Bengals, now the barely-used pass catcher for the AFC champion New England Patriots — was asked what he had learned about himself this season.

Clements cherishes playoffs

11:28 PM Sunday, January 1, 2012

CINCINNATI — There were just 36 seconds left in Sunday’s game. The Cincinnati Bengals had the ball near midfield, but they were trailing Baltimore 24-16 and the last-gasp passes of rookie quarterback Andy Dalton were mostly misfires.

Giving spirit makes Bengals' Peko a hit with kids

10:28 PM Saturday, December 31, 2011

CINCINNATI — No regular-season game in recent Bengals history has had any more meaning than this one with Baltimore today.

Archdeacon: Grandchildren help turn coach’s scowls into smiles

10:37 AM Sunday, December 25, 2011

OXFORD — It didn’t take long for Charlie Coles to snap out of it.

He and his Miami basketball team had just suffered what he’d later call “as terrible a loss as I can remember suffering” — the RedHawks let an 11-point lead slip away and fell to Evansville, 77-75 — and as he slowly led the way through the perfunctory postgame handshake line, he seemed fully absorbed in the defeat.

Texans stun Bengals with last-second win

8:00 AM Monday, December 12, 2011

CINCINNATI — By all rights he should have been the colorful hero of this game.

Linebacker Rey Maualuga — with that avalanche of long dark hair tumbling out the back of his Bengals helmet and those muscled arms covered in traditional Samoan warrior tattoos — had been a one-man wrecking ball for most of Sunday’s game.

Commentary: Griffin deserves Heisman Trophy

1:36 AM Thursday, December 8, 2011

My Heisman Trophy vote went to Baylor quarterback Robert Griffin III.

When the season began, I had Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck at the top of my list and he stayed there through a good part of the year.

A healthy Urban Meyer returns to coaching

12:06 PM Tuesday, November 29, 2011

COLUMBUS — Gene Smith was explaining why Urban Meyer was the search committee’s first choice, its only choice, its perfect choice to become Ohio State’s new football coach.