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MLB
Reds win 5-2 over the san diego padres.  Nick Lodolo went 7 innings striking out 11 and allowing 1 earned run.
Elly De La Cruz started the game with a 450 foot home run to deep left center.  First player to have 18 stolen bases and 8 home runs in April since 1908
Candelario went 2 for 4 with a double 
Reds are back at it tonight at 940 pm as Nick Martinez faces off against Yu Darvish
Around the League
The Athletics beat the pirates 5-1.  They have won 4 out of their last 5
The Braves had a no hitter going through 7.  They led 1-0 heading into the bottom of the ninth.  Mitch garver smashed a walkoff 2 run shot to win.
Dodgers win 8-4 over the diamondbacks 
Phillies crumble against the angels 6-5
Twins beat the white sox 3-2 and Minnesota has won 8 in a row
The Rays scored 1 in the top of the first.  Nobody scored another run.  Brewers lose
Cubs win 3-1 over the Mets.  Severino held off the cubs until the eighth inning.  Morel hits the gam winner. 
Justin turner had his 16th multi home run game of his career.  Blue jays hold on to beat the royals 6-5
Orioles shut out the yankees 2-0.
NL CENTRAL Standings: Cubs lead the division 18-11, brewers a half game behind them, the reds are 2 games back and the pirates and cardinals dont matter. 
NBA
Celtics take a 3-1 series lead after cruising by miami.  102-88 . Porzingis leaves early after a non contact injury but derrick white scored 38 points going 8-15 from beyond the arc.  Tatum added a 20 point double double 
The 1 seed in the West thunder finish off the sweep of the pelicans.  97-89 the final yesterday.  Shai and jalen williams each scored 24 points. 
The lakers are heading to cancun after losing the series to the nuggets.  Jamall murray hit his second game winner of the series winning 108 - 106. Lebron tried his best dropping 30 poijnts 9 boards and 11 assists. Jokic dropped 25 points and 20 rebounds.  Murray scored 32 points 
NHL
The Dallas Stars even up the series 2 a piece.  They won last night 4-2
Panthers win the series against the lightening 4-1 after a 6-1 victory last night
NFL
#Chiefs star Travis Kelce’s contract extension tacks on two years and $34.25 million to the two years remaining on his old deal, per sources.
Kelce now has guaranteed money in 2024, with additional money vesting year-by-year. He’s signed through 2027, when he’ll be 38.
It seems the bengals were never really going to seriously consider resigning tee higgins 
FCC news. 
The Club has acquired Venezuelan forward Kevin Kelsy on loan from Ukrainian Premier League power Shakhtar Donetsk as a U22 initiative 
player.

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MLB
Reds lose the series finale to the Rangers yesterday 4-3. 
Andrew abbott started out rough giving up 4 earned in the first but settled down not allowing another run.  He went 5 and a third giving up 6 hits and striking out 7
India had a phenomenal series going 8-12 with a home run.  
Candelario finishes the series 0-8 with 7 strikeouts
TOnight at 9:40, it is Nick Lodoo vs Matt Waldron in san diego.  First pitch set for 9:40
Around the league
The Red Sox walk off the Cubs last night to beat the cubs on a tyler oneil base hit
The diamondbacks beat the mariners 3-2
The phillies stay red hot as they beat the Padres 8-6
Twins win 11-5 over the Angels
Pirates help out the reds cause losing to the giants 3-2
Astros beat the Rockies in Mexico winning 8-2
White Sox beat the rays 4-2 to finish off the sweep.  Its their first series win of the year
Yankees win the series over the Brewers and put up 15 runs in the final two games of the series.
Mets win 4-2 over the Cardinals to finish off the NL central sweep yesterday 
Nationals beat the marlins 12-9 as the fish secure the wrost record in Major League Baseball
The athletics come back to beat the orioles 7-6
NBA
The knicks won 97-92 to take a 3-1 series lead over the sixers.  Jalen Brunson scored 47 points and added 10 assists in their win.  
The clippers beat the Mavericks 116-111.  They led by 31 points and blew it but eventually hung up.  Kyrie Irving dropped 40 points in the losing effort.  Doncic added a 29 point triple double.  James harden and Paul George each scored 33 points. Series is split 2-2
Pacers beat the Bucks 126-113 and take a 3-1 series victory. Myles turner was 7-9 from three and scored 29 points.  Haliburton scored 24. Brooks lopez was the leading scorer again for the bucks dropped 27 points.  
Timberwolves finish off the sweep of the suns 122-116. Anthony edwards scored 31 of his 40 points in the second half.  
NHL
Avalanche win 5-1 over the Jets and now lead 3-1 in the series
Predators lose to the Canucks and now trail 3-1 in that series 
Rangers sweep the capitals after a 4-2 win 
Oilers lead their series 3-1after winning 1-0 over the kings yesterday 
FCC
FCC wins 2-1over the colorado rapids. Acosta and Baird each scored a goal. 
NFL
Tank Dell suffered minor injuries in a mass shooting this weekend
Jaguars pick up the fifth year options for trevor lawrence and travis etienne 
Ezekial elliot is rejoining the cowboys on a 1 year deal

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MLB
Reds win 7-4 to own the tiebreaker over the phillies for the season. Nick lodolo went 5 innings giving up 6 hits and 3 earned runs striking out 4
Fernando cruz had another 2 big outs of relief and alexis diaz slammed the door. 
Another 3 hit game for elly de la cruz and added 3 stolen bases as well 
A struggling will benson had 2 hits including a home run
Tyler stephenson is starting to heat up with another multi hit game
Santiago espinal entered this series with 5 hits including 1 extra base hits.  Over the last two nights he has 5 hits with 2 extra base hits.  
Zack Wheeler will take on Nick Martinez this afternoon for the series finale. 
 
The bats
The Bats won 2-1 last night . rece hinds went 1-4 with a double and Ian gibaut and tony santillion pitched 2 innings of scoreless baseball adding 2k’s each .  
Lyon richardson pitched well too going 5 and a third innings allowing 1 hit and 1 home run striking out 8 k’s. 
Around the league
Cardinals beat up on the diamondbacks 5-1
The mets finally take a game from the giants winning 8-2
Orioles win the series against the angels on a 6-5 win yesterday
Red Sox blank the guardians 8-0
Brewers win 3-2 in another low scoring game against the pirates 
Dodgers obliterate the nationals 11-2
Rays beat the tigers 7-5
Yankees take the series from the athletics winning 7-3
Cubs look to sweep the astros today after winning last night 4-3
NL CENTRAL standings 
Brewers are 15-8 and in first place.  Cubs 15-9 and in second place.  Reds 14-10 and are in 3rd place.. Best start to the season in nearly 20 years
Pirates and cardinals are playing catch up in fourth and fifth 
NBA 
Thunder crushed the pelicans and take a 2-0 series lead winning 124-92. Shai alexander dropped 33 points en route to their win
The heat upset the celtics evening the series 1-1.  111-101. Tyler hero sscored 24 points and was 6-11 rom beyond the arc.  Also added 13 boards.  Brown and tatum combined for 61 points but it wasnt enough
Bearcats basketball
Cincinnati and dayton are working on finalizing a deal to have another game in heritage bank center this coming season. 
 
Bengals news
Trey Hendrickson has requested a trade and is threatening retirement if his demands are not met.  

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Headlines and interview questions MLB Reds win 8-1snapping the 7 game winning streak of the phillies Andrew Abbott goes 4 and a third innings giving up 2 hits and an earned run. Struck out 3. Fernando Cruz came in to get out of the jam Farmer Pagan and Moll carried them the rest of the way. 3 hits for CES including 2 rbis and a double Elly De La Cruz had a walk and a massive home run. Santiago Espinal had 3 hits last night including a home run Nick Lodolo squares off against Spencer Turnbull. Lodolo has a sub 1 Era and Turnbull has a 1.23 era Around the League Giants beat the Mets 5-1 Angels beat the orioles 7-4. Mike Trout hit his first leadoff home run since 2012 and the angels halt their losing streak. Jackson Holiday is 2-34 since coming up Rockies came back to beat the padres 7-4 Mariners shutout the Rangers 4-0 Diamondbacks wallop the cardinals 14-1 Royals came back to beat the Blue Jays 3-2 White sox blew a 9th inning lead to the Twins and lose 6-5 the Cubs beat up on the 7-17 Astros winning 7-2 Dodgers beat the Nationals 4-1 and Shohei hit a 118 mph home run Pirates beat the Brewers again this time 2-1 NBA The Timberwolves take a 2-0 series lead over the suns. Jaden Mcdaniels led the way for the wolves with 25 points adding 8 boards. Conley and Gobert each had 18 points. The Pacers even up the series at 1 a piece. They beat the bucks last night 125-108. Pascal siakam dropped 37 points en route to the victory. Lillard tried his hardest scoring 34 points and brook lope went 6-7 from beyond the arc The Mavericks split their series at 1 a piece beating the clippers 96-93. Kawhi scored 15 points in his return to action. Luka Doncic scored 32 points adding 6 boards and 9 assist. News around sports Reggie bush is getting his 2005 Heisman Trophy back. There will be a formal reinstatement of the trophy coming today. This being in large part because of the NIL deals. Greg Norman confirmed that LIV never made an offer to Rory Mclroy. He did say he presented a liv offer to a top pga tour player

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Headlines and interview questions MLB The Reds get blanked 7-0 by the Phillies in game 1 of this 4 game set. Hunter Greene was solid going 7 innings stirking out 6 and giving up 4 earned runs. Ranger suarez gave up 2 hits in his 7 innings of work striking out 5. Nick Castellanos since yesterday’s slander fest, went 2-4 Leadoff Fairchild and CES were the only ones with hits. Andrew abbott has a 2.7 era and he will be going up against Christopher Sanchez who has a 2.95 era tonight at 640 Around the LEague Giants beat the mets 5-2 Orioles add on to the angels losing streak winning 4-2 Padres beat the Rockies in colorado 3-1. They are 1 for their last 9 Cardinals walked off the Diamondbacks on a nolan gorman 2 run shot in the bottom of the ninth The White Sox get shut out yet again losing to the Twins 7-0. They are the first team in MLB history to be shut out 8 times in their first 22 games. Fun stat of the day, The atlanta braves have been shut out twice since the start of last season. THe white sox have been shut out three times since the start of last week Pirates win 4-2 over the brewers . Brewers pitching Jakob Junis was hit in the neck with a ball during batting practice and was sent to the hospital. Athletics blank the yankees 2-0. Something outrageous happened in that game which we will discuss later. NBA Cavaliers beat the Magic 96-86 and lead the series 2-0. Jalen suggs suffered a leg injury in the loss. Mitchell led the cavs with 23 points and added 8 boards The Knicks were down 5 points with 30 seconds and win the game in regulation on a donte divencenzo three. Nick nurse tried to call a timeout on the possession where the knicks stole it, but the refs did not see it Tyrese maxey tried his best scoring 35 points 10 assists and 9 rebounds Embid finished with 34 Brunson another offnight shooting going 8-29 but he scored 24 and that was enough Lakers were up big against the nuggets yet again but choke it away yet it again. Jamal murray hit the game winning buzzerbeater to win 101-99 Anthony davis had 32 points and 11 boards Lebron james was 2 rebounds shy of a 26 point triple doube Jokic scored 27 points, added 20 rebounds and 10 assists . Murray scored 20 points NHL The islanders were up 3-0, and 3-1 heading into the third period. The hurricanes scored 2 goals in 9 seconds to tie and then take the lead. 4 goals in the final period and hurricanes win 5-3 and lead 2-0 Golden knights take a 1-0 series lead winning 4-3 over our stars. Maple leafs even the series with the bruins winning 3-2 Oilers beat the kings 7-4 and are up 1-0

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What a weekend for the local nine….that’s two weekends in a row where the red legs pull off a series sweep. Last week they outscored the white sox 27-5….this week they sweep the angels out of town, outsourcing that bunch, 17-6. On friday night, — Elly De La Cruz hit a three-run homer, Nick Lodolo pitched 6 1/3 innings of one-run ball for his second quality start since coming off the injured list and the Cincinnati Reds snapped a three-game skid with a 7-1 win over the Los Angeles Angels on Friday night. Besides the three-run shot in the eighth. De La Cruz manufactured another run with two outs in the second inning when he singled, stole second and third and scored on the errant throw to third by Angels catcher. Lodolo (2-0) allowed a run and seven hits while striking out six after giving up just one hit in 5 2/3 innings against the White Sox last Saturday in his first big league start in nearly a year. The 26-year-old left-hander exited in the seventh Friday with one out and runners on second and third. Fernando Cruz came on and struck out Jo Adell and Zach Neto to end the threat. Saturday night, tyler stephenson clubbed his first career grand slam…stuart failrchild knocked in two in a 7-5 win. Graham ashcraft gave up five runs in six innings but nick martinez was lights out, firing three shutout innings…..alexis diaz closed it out. So that brought us to yesterday…..scary moment when frankie montas took a comebacker off the right elbow and had the leave the game in the first inning…..turns out he’s okay, just s bruise. Brent sutter was fantastic over 3 ⅓ innings and the reds bullpen goes 8 ⅓ frames of six-hit shutout baseball in a 3-0 victory. In the nl central, the reds are a half game back of chicago for second-place. The white hot brewers, who swept the cardinals over the weekend, are two and a half games ahead of cincinnati. The pirates free fall has begun. Theyve lost six straight. The hottest team in the national league comes to town tonight to open a four games series. The philadelphia phillies have ripped off six straight and will send 3-0 lefthander ranger suarez to the mound against hunter greene. The reds right hander is still in search of his first victory of this young season. In the nba playoffs, winners in game one of four series were played yesterday….the winners were the clippers, celtics, the bucks wirth no Yannis, and the oklahoma thunder held off the Zion-less pelicans by two. In soccer, Luciano Acosta recorded one goal and one assist to help FC Cincinnati rally for a 2-1 victory over the host Atlanta United on Saturday night. The win puts fcc at 4 wins, two losses and three draws on the year and ends a three-game winless streak.

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Cincinnati Reds traveled up to Seattle to take on the Mariners. They would lose the series and get SWEPT in the process... They would allow 17 Runs and only score 5 in the entire series... Offensively last night the ONLY hit was a Elly De La Cruz Homerun. The NFL draft is approaching fast and we are finally starting to see the board settle. Who should the Bengals draft what should their approach be? Two Defensive Tackles? Early WR? Defense over Offense? More on Off the Bench.

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Cincinnati Reds traveled up to Seattle to take on the Mariners. They would lose the series and get SWEPT in the process... They would allow 17 Runs and only score 5 in the entire series... Offensively last night the ONLY hit was a Elly De La Cruz Homerun. The NFL draft is approaching fast and we are finally starting to see the board settle. Who should the Bengals draft what should their approach be? Two Defensive Tackles? Early WR? Defense over Offense? More on Off the Bench.

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Cincinnati Reds traveled up to Seattle to take on the Mariners. They would lose a tough one yesterday 3-1. Hunter Greene did not have great control of the ball last night only pitching in 4 innings for 98 pitches. However, he did have 8 strikeouts and gave up only 1 earned run on the night. Offensively was the bigger story of the night as the Reds were only able to score 1 run off of 4 hits on the night. The NFL draft is approaching fast and we are finally starting to see the board settle. Who should the Bengals draft what should their approach be? Two Defensive Tackles? Early WR? Defense over Offense?

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Cincinnati Reds traveled up to Seattle to take on the Mariners. They would lose a tough one yesterday 9-3. Frankie Montas did not have great control of the ball last night was all over the place and gave up 5 earned runs on the night. The NFL draft is approaching fast and we are finally starting to see the board settle. Who should the Bengals draft what should their approach be? Two Defensive Tackles? Early WR? Defense over Offense?