In September, Cincinnati-based company Chiquita, maker of America’s beloved bananas, announced it was thinking about moving its global headquarters out of Cicinnati, citing how difficult international travel through the city had become. Determined to stop Chiquita’s exodus, Cincinnati residents started a hashtag on Twitter, #NoCincyBananaSplit, to keep the global fruit and vegetable distributor around. Within days, Charlotte lovers had come up with their own rival hashtag, #Bananas4CLT , certain they could win the battle for Chiquita’s heart. Prolific tweeter and Chiquita CEO Fernando Aguirre encouraged the faceoff, and Charlotte restaurants soon joined in. Read full article > >

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Chiquita’s new world headquarters in Charlotte decided with help from a Twitter war

Friendship Collegiate Academy doesn’t have a home football field, so every game is a road game. Its practice field, affectionately known to the team as “the beach,” is two adjoining former baseball fields behind the public charter school on Minnesota Avenue in Northeast Washington and is more dirt, dust and broken glass than grass. The team’s locker room is two cream-colored trailers that sit on one end of the practice field and lack two essential elements: lockers and room. On Sunday morning, however, the Knights will be in Cincinnati for their season opener thanks to an all-expenses paid trip to play one of the city’s top high school football teams, Taft, on national television. How did this happen to a school that only started playing football eight years ago? Read full article > >

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Eddie Goldman puts Friendship Collegiate football on national stage

Friendship Collegiate Academy doesn’t have a home football field, so every game is a road game. Its practice field, affectionately known to the team as “the beach,” is two adjoining former baseball fields behind the public charter school on Minnesota Avenue in Northeast Washington and is more dirt, dust and broken glass than grass. The team’s locker room is two cream-colored trailers that sit on one end of the practice field and lack two essential elements: lockers and room. On Sunday morning, however, the Knights will be in Cincinnati for their season opener thanks to an all-expenses paid trip to play one of the city’s top high school football teams, Taft, on national television. How did this happen to a school that only started playing football eight years ago? Read full article > >

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Eddie Goldman puts Friendship Collegiate football on national stage

A panoramic cityscape from the dawn of photography, a treasured artifact of Cincinnati, is newly conserved and on public view.

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Though five games is an absurdly small sample size, only one team in the wild-card era, the 1995 Cincinnati Reds, has reached the postseason after starting 0-5.

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The Detroit Tigers are retiring the great baseball manager Sparky Anderson’s number 11 this season. “It’s a wonderful gesture,” Detroit Free Press columnist Michael Rosenberg wrote. “I just wish Sparky could see it.” Anderson won three World Series – one managing the Tigers, two with the Cincinnati Reds – and passed away this past November. read more

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A deadly tornado ripped through the tiny Arkansas town of Cincinnati on New Year’s Eve, killing three people and injuring scores of others across the county about 20 miles from the Oklahoma border. Police said several people have been trapped in…

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Tornado Kills 3 in Arkansas

Mr. Anderson led Cincinnati’s Big Red Machine to back-to-back World Series championships and went on to win another title in Detroit.

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Sparky Anderson Is Dead at 76

The Philadelphia Phillies are again heading to the National League Championship Series after sweeping the Cincinnati Reds Sunday night. Cole Hamels pitched a shutout, striking out nine and allowing just five hits. The 2-0 victory marked the first…

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Phillies Sweep Reds

Heading into the bottom of the eighth inning, Cincinnati is running out of chances to avoid a sweep.

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Live Analysis: Phillies 2, Reds 0

This kicks off the playoffs with a bang. Ace Phillies pitcher Roy Halladay threw a no-hitter Wednesday against the Cincinnati Reds. He allowed only one person on base the whole game-Jay Bruce walked in the fifth-and he struck out eight. The Phillies…

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Phillies’ Halladay Pitches No-Hitter

The phone number printed on the box for Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Ochocinco’s cereal connects to a phone-sex line. The number on “Ochocinco’s” was supposed to dial the charity Feed the Children, but an error in the toll-free prefix instead…

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Ochocinco’s Cereal Box Has Sex-Line Number

Roger Federer beats Mardy Fish in three sets in the Cincinnati Masters final to win his first tournament since the Australian Open in January.

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Andy Murray says he has had the ‘perfect’ preparation for the US Open despite defeat by Mardy Fish in the quarter-final of the Cincinnati Masters.

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Andy Murray battles hard but is beaten in three sets by American Mardy Fish in the quarter-final of the Cincinnati Masters.

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