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gin a. ando | editor-in-chief

COLUMBUS, Ohio — More than a thousand demonstrators from around the state bottlenecked at the doors of Ohio’s Statehouse Tuesday in support of killing — or at least maiming — the controversial, allegedly union-busting Ohio Senate Bill 5.

Union members ranging from nurses to police squeezed onto steps leading to the doors of the Capitol. They filled an atrium to capacity. They sat on the benches outside the cafe and on the various staircases throughout the building. Attendance estimates range from approximately 1,000 to nearly 4,000.

If passed, SB5 would largely abolish the ability to negotiate on behalf of a union, also known as collective bargaining rights. As of Wednesday, Ohio’s Republican lawmakers compromised and said wage negotiation ability may be included.

Critics of the bill, however, say SB5 will essentially dismantle the foundation of a union and eventually end up annihilating unions in Ohio altogether.

Unionized employees from

the University of Cincinnati who attended the protests spoke on the condition of anonymity because administrators told them they would face consequences if they demonstrated in Columbus.

“A lot of people don’t understand it’s not just the union they’re coming after,” said “Brad,” a union worker for more than 30 years and UC employee. “They’re coming after every public employee. When these other people on campus realize that, they’re going to be crying, too. They just don’t believe it’s going to happen.”

State troopers controlled access to the building and patrolled the Capitol’s hallways, watching the approximate 1,000 demonstrators let into the building. By 4 p.m., SB5’s hearing’s start time, the building’s rotunda was standing room only.

Troopers barred anyone else from entering, leaving hundreds of protesters demanding in a collective voice to let them in.

What happened Wednesday was not a vote, however. State legislators heard various testimonies from those speaking for and against the bill.

“The truth is, our state is broke,”

said Chris Littleton, co-founder of the Ohio Liberty Council and president of Cincinnati’s Tea Party chapter. “Collective bargaining has institutionalized government … [it] replaces merit with comfort.”

Bruce Johnson, president of the Inter-University Council of Ohio, a group comprised of the state’s 14 public schools including UC and works to connect the universities, said SB5 would allow for more efficiency in institutions. He cited the University of Toledo as an example — a school that virtually wasted $8 million on inefficiencies and wasteful employee wages, he said.

Protesting UC union members did not see it the same way.

“When people put things into perspective and talk about the unions, they really need to look at the overall picture,” said “Last Resort,” another UC employee who requested anonymity for fear of university reprisal. “We’re not part of the problem, but we’re definitely part of the solution.”

Currently, UC, which employs members of six unions, has eight collective bargaining contracts. Professors, librarians, those

who perform maintenance and housekeeping, law enforcement officers and dispatchers, engineers, nurses, and office administrators are unionized.

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A member of the University of Cincinnati’s Board of Trustees is facing disbarment as a lawyer in Kentucky and possibly Ohio for his involvement with a 2001 class-action lawsuit.

Stan Chesley of the Cincinnati law firm of Waite, Schneider, Bayless and Chesley, was recommended by Kentucky trial commissioner William L. Graham for permanent disbarment for his actions in the 2001 fen-phen diet drug lawsuit.

Chesley negotiated a settlement of $200 million for 431 people in Boone County, Ky., that were sickened by the diet drug.

Yet almost half of that $200 million settlement went to Chesley and his co-counsels with the lawsuit — William Gallion, Shirley Cunningham, Jr. and Melbourne Mills, Jr. — for lawyer fees. The lawyer fees were approved by former Boone County Circuit Court Judge Joseph Bamberger in a “clandestine meeting” with the attorneys in February 2002 — a meeting that excluded the lawyer’s clients.

Gallion was convicted to 25 years in federal prison and Shirley to 20 years in 2009 for bilking their former clients of money from the settlement. Both, in addition to Mills, were disbarred as lawyers and ordered to pay back $127 million in restitution to the victims and forfeit

$30 million to the federal government.Chesley, however, was not charged and

received approximately $20 million in fees from the settlement although contractual agreements with the clients entitled him to approximately $13 million, according to the trial commissioner’s report.

“The greed evidenced by the plaintiff’s attorneys in this case is astounding,” the report stated, “and Chesley, although his avarice may not be as breathtaking as that of Cunningham, Gallion and Mills, is culpable of unethical conduct.”

If disbarred in Kentucky, Chesley could also face disbarment as an attorney in Ohio.

Chesley’s attorneys, Scott Cox and Sheryl

Snyder, were surprised and disappointed by the trial commissioner’s report.

“His findings are directly contrary to the findings of federal authorities, who fully investigated this case and never considered Mr. Chesley a target of their investigation,” Cox and Snyder said. “We will therefore appeal his recommendation.”

Whether Chesley would remain a member of UC’s Board of Trustees is subject to decision only by Ohio Gov. John Kasich, said UC spokesperson Greg Hand.

“Board members are appointed by the governor of the state of Ohio,” Hand said. “It wouldn’t be up to anyone at the university to determine whether or not someone remains on the board.”

gin a. ando | editor-in-chief

Armed with colorful signs and printed chant slogans, dozens of rain-soaked students and faculty marched into University of Cincinnati President Gregory Williams’ office Monday afternoon and delivered a letter condemning Ohio Senate Bill 5.

Although no individual group was solely responsible for organizing the demonstration, members of UC’s College Democrats, Campus Antiwar Network, the International Socialist Organization and American Association of University Professors chanted “Kill the bill, change the budget!” and “Save UC!” Demonstrators waved signs as speakers explained how SB5 could adversely affect everyone due to its broad reform to unionized labor.

Faculty members spoke on how UC’s AAUP was the oldest chapter in the state and helped create a harmony that helped avoid worker strikes for the past 30-plus years.

Despite Ohio Sen. Shannon Jones’ — who sponsored the bill in the Ohio Senate — insistence that SB5 was not created to “punish” workers, UC’s AAUP chapter president John McNay said differently.

“There is a penalty for working in higher education,” he said. He then explained how unionized workers earn a salary comparable — not disproportionately higher as labor union critics claim — to their counterparts in the private sector.

The bill, which would cut back on collective bargaining rights for all unions, is being met with resistance by a variety of groups, including firefighters and police officers.

“These are issues about quality of life,” McNay said.

jaSminE EvanS |tnr contributor

Two weeks before the Cincinnati Reds’ baseball season begins at Great American Ballpark, locally owned and operated Holy Grail Tavern & Grille will be the first business

to open in the riverfront Banks project. The 6,000-square-foot sports bar will have

a stage for live radio broadcasts, bands and other forms of entertainment. The bar will be located at the corner of Joe Nuxhall and Freedom ways, directly across from the Red’s Hall of Fame, said Don Andres, co-owner of the bar, which has a location on W. Charlton Street in Corryville.

The opening of the restaurant at the Banks will be the third Holy Grail location in the Cincinnati area; the other is in Delhi.

Andres and his business partners — Jim Moehring, Tom Heitker and Paul Goebel — are all friends who grew up on the west side of Cincinnati with backgrounds in the finance, food and entertainment industries.

The original Holy Grail brewed its own beer and opened in the 1990s under previous ownership but closed in 2001.

Andres and Moehring, both University of

Cincinnati alumni, re-opened the business in 2004 alongside Heitker and converted it into its current state as a sports bar.

The restaurant’s new location is an opportunity to further expand the Holy Grail brand and name recognition to people from all over the greater Cincinnati area and beyond, just as the Corryville location helped them through UC athletics, Andres said.

“The UC community has been a big part of the Holy Grail,” Andres said. “This is a great way for alumni, students and faculty to experience all the Holy Grail has to offer. It is important to us as small business owners to know that our brand was developed and established in the University of Cincinnati community.”

The expected date for the establishment to open to the public is St. Patrick’s Day March 17, Andres said, but it will be no later than the Red’s Opening Day March 31.

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a CoLLECTivE voiCE Thousands of union members from across the state gather at the entrance to the Ohio Statehouse Tuesday to voice their opposition to Gov. John Kasich’s budget and the proposed Senate Bill 5 (above). Protestors held signs and claimed the state’s middle class’s welfare was in their hands.

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ariel cheung | managing editor

The Aronoff Center for the Arts has announced an incredibly promising 2011-12 Broadway Across America season, filled with spectacular songs, uplifting plots and fantastic characters.

The season begins Sept. 27 with “Beauty and the Beast,” the hit musical based on the 1991 Disney film. While the seven new songs aren’t nearly as great as the movie originals, “Home” and “Human Again” are excellent additions. As University of Cincinnati students crack open textbooks and settle into the doldrums of college life, “Beauty and the Beast” will be a great way to reminisce of a time before midterms and lecture halls.

In November, the Wicked Witch of the West comes to Cincinnati in “Wicked,” which is likely to be the highlight of the season. The Tony Award-winning show has had a huge impact on the musical world since its 2004 debut and scores big with critics and audiences alike. As Time magazine said, “If every musical had a brain, a heart and the courage of ‘Wicked,’ Broadway really would be a magical place.” This is a show that truly cannot be missed.

As this February’s “Fiddler on the Roof” filled the classic musical role for Aronoff’s current season, “West Side Story” and “Les Miserables” should charm audiences in February and May 2012, respectively. “West Side Story” puts a 1950s street-gang twist on Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.” “Les Miserables,”

meanwhile, tells the story of characters suffering in 19th-century France. Both musicals are tragic and romantic, but not necessarily must-see shows for those who don’t enjoy musicals.

But for those who want to stray from the traditional musical, “The Addams Family” and “Mamma Mia!” will more than serve. “The Addams Family,” arriving at the Aronoff March 27, 2012, is based on the original Charles Addams cartoons and follows Wednesday Addams as she falls in love with her macabre parents’ worst nightmare — a respectable, upstanding young man. Nathan Lane has starred as father Gomez since the show opened on Broadway, so it will be interesting to see if the tour’s replacement is equally as entertaining.

“Mamma Mia!” will open May 1, 2012. A “jukebox musical,” “Mamma Mia!” tells a story revolving around music by Swedish pop group ABBA. As 20-year-old Sophie prepares to marry, she wants her father to walk her down the aisle. But when she discovers she has three possible fathers, chaos ensues. While the 2008 film adaptation starring Meryl Streep and Amanda Seyfried is quite good, it will be fun to see the story unfold onstage.

Finally, “Billy Elliot” will open at the Aronoff Jan. 18, 2012. The story of a motherless boy who trades boxing gloves for ballet shoes, “Billy Elliot” charmed critics and audiences when it debuted on Broadway in 2008. The musical scooped up 10 Tony Awards, including Best Musical and looks like a sure hit in Cincinnati.

Stefanie Kremer and evan WalliS | the news record

Live music and art galleries might be a frequent weekend happening, but none are like The Loft Series’ first installment Feb. 18.

A second story loft on Main Street in the Gateway District of Over-the-Rhine was transformed into an art gallery and performance stage for one night.

Four musical acts including a singer and songwriter, a full band and a DJ along with three visual artists’ displays ranging from posters to photographs filled the venue.

Rome Ntukogu, founder of Far-I- Rome Productions said he wanted to be able to create a stage and gallery anywhere. Thus, he created the Loft Series.

“It’s all about creating a cohesive arts community in the city,” Ntukogu said.

Near the apartment entrance, a long hallway was plastered with posters and paintings by Spencer van der Zee, some made with permanent markers and others with watercolors. Another room featured photographs by Ann Van Epps. A third room featured acrylic paintings by Rebecca Nebert. All the art was for sale and hung around the loft with the precision and spacing of a professional exhibit.

Brandon Meade, an acoustic singer and songwriter,

started the music for the night with heartfelt ballads and a vibrant voice.

As the audience started to grow, so did the set list. Hello Hello played next and laughed and joked with the crowd as they played and sang.

Up next was Majestic Man, a four-piece band that brought the energy to a higher level. Drums and two guitars propelled the jam band-style rock through the loft. The band pulled a majority of the crowd of more than 100 into the stage room, leaving little space for the rest of the crowd to see.

The last act of the night was a DJ named Diamonn Gurr. He got the crowd dancing with a mix of top-40 hits and distortion through noisemakers and several effects pedals. The dancing crowd soon trickled out and left the loft to be reassembled into its original use — a home.

Ntukogu plans to host a Loft Series event each month in different locations, each time with different artists and musicians.

“It’s all about keeping it fresh,” Ntukogu said.The promoter has planned several other events in

Cincinnati, including the Clifton Heights Music Festival series, which draws crowds of more than 3,000 fans.

This Loft Series was much different from Ntukogu’s previous events and required him to ensure a responsible

crowd and safety of the owner’s loft. The intimate setting was a success in Ntukogu’s eyes, however, and he hopes to continue bringing music and art to the city of Cincinnati.

Sean PeterS | chief reporter

Superman is just too strong — that’s a common complaint among many comic book nerds. His primary weakness being the shattered fragments of his destroyed home planet Kryptonite, Superman doesn’t have to sweat the worry of destruction like most superheroes. DC Comics and Warner Bros. Animation’s new animated film “All-Star Superman” punches that tired convention right through the stratosphere.

Sure, we’ve seen Superman killed by Doomsday — but he came back, easy as breathing. “All-Star Superman” is the first instance since his resurrection where it’s really not clear how the Man of Steel will pull through.

While saving several scientists attempting to harness power directly from the surface of our solar system’s yellow sun, Superman is overexposed to solar rays. While this does strengthen him, his cells are so stimulated they begin breaking down.

Not allowing impending doom slow him, Superman faces multiple challenges with greater strength, zeal and optimism. He is forced to deal with his own mortality on a level too human to deny. While Clark Kent is Superman’s human identity, his super powers disable him from being able to fully relate with earthlings. Superman needs Kent to keep leveled.

Superman makes it a point to be overly clumsy and awkward while looking through Kent’s glasses. It’s been discussed that his flimsy portrayal of Kent is Superman’s critique on humanity.

“You write like a poet, but you move like a landslide,” said Lex Luthor to Kent during a prison cell interview. Kent is on assignment to get some final words for The Daily Planet from Luthor, who is to be executed for his crimes against humanity.

Faithful to much of the super-lore, Luthor is the main antagonist who orchestrates Superman’s downfall from the start. While the two foes have constantly been at odds, the film concludes on a startling note.

Directed by Sam Liu, “All-Star Superman” is based on the comic series by Grant Morrison. The film doesn’t take any absurd liberties, though it does omit choice segments for the sake of streamlining. At a mere 75-minute runtime, the film feels rushed, and it would be interesting to see what else from the powerful original story could have been included.

“All-Star Superman” reinvents Superman’s mythology, further adding and reconditioning the epic tale of Kal-El. Like many other superhero adaptations, the animated features are superior to most laughable live-action attempts. “All-Star Superman” shines as one of the best Superman films yet.

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Giamatti unleashes charm in “Barney’s Version”adam Kuhn | staff reporter

In Giamatti’s new film, “Barney’s Version,” he plays a character who drinks too much, smokes too much and still somehow comes off as charming and endearing with a great heart.

Paul Giamatti is a fine actor with various awards to prove it. His biggest feat as an actor is his ability to be charming, funny and dramatic despite the fact that he is fat and hairy.

Seriously, the man is funny and emotes so well on screen, but part of what makes him interesting is that he is not a pretty boy like George Clooney or Brad Pitt, who are also fine actors. But Giamatti shines as an everyman with a sense of humor.

The structure of “Barney’s Version” unconventionally starts in the present and then flashes back to earlier in

Barney’s life. At the same time, it jumps back to the present and moves forward in that time frame simultaneously alongside flashback scenes.

So Barney begins as an older man, reminiscing about his three marriages and how he came to meet the love of his life, Miriam. The film tries to keep some aspects mysterious, but does a poor job masking these inevitabilities. The film would have been better off being more straightforward. Miriam is played by Rosamund Pike, best known for her role as a Bond girl in 2002’s “Die Another Day.” She meets Barney at his second wedding, oddly enough, but that doesn’t stop him from pursuing her.

Despite his impulsive and sometimes destructive habits, there is something about Barney that is sweet and lovable. And Miriam falls for it. The fact that she deserves better and

should not have fallen for him almost makes their love that much more believable.

The film has a few very nice moments between the lovers, but what kept it from being great was too much going on. Miriam once remarks that you have to be happy with the mundane and the routine, yet director Richard J. Lewis constructs his movie around only major moments. The only things that shine through are the very few small moments offered up.

Perhaps Lewis was trying to capture every detail included in the book “Barney’s Version” was based on, but the film fails in the major moments because there is no preexisting mood. It is a sweet movie and Giamatti and Pike shine, but it felt bloated. At the end of the day, however, it has enough laughs and enough heart to make for an enjoyable experience.

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lotS to See The upcoming broadway Across America season features beloved shows like “Wicked” (above) and “beauty and the beast” (below).

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F or more than one year, students at the University of Cincinnati have given their consideration, efforts

and time to underprivileged children across the tri-state through the Pay It Forward service-learning program.

What started as a mere desire to give back to the community has blossomed into a living, breathing organization with the goal of improving the environments of hundreds of children and touching the lives of thousands.

PIF utilizes a three-year grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service that provides $45,000 to three UC classes to be used over a three-year period. The grant is divided evenly between classes yearly and used to improve schools, clubs and charities of children and adults in need.

Students enrolled in the classes also complete a minimum of 15 service hours at various nonprofit organizations. The program engages the students to work with any social issue they might be learning about.

Despite the hours performing community service clocked in by students, PIF would be nothing without Roger Grein, a UC alumnus, who is recognized as “the soul” of the program by Michael Sharp, the principle investigator of the program and director for UC’s Center of Service Learning and Civic Engagement.

PIF was born 10 years ago after a conversation between Grein and James Ventruba, former president of Northern Kentucky University. Ventruba told Grein about a $4,000 grant given to NKU students to give to charities by the Mayerson Foundation.

Grein, who was adopted at the age of six months and diagnosed with cerebral palsy, is a devout Catholic.

“All my life I have had the attitude that everything I receive is a gift from God, and I felt that that should be shared with others,” Grein, now 68, said. “I always had that inclination to give.”

Grein shared the concept with Father Michael Graham, president of Xavier University. Successful investments in the stock market allowed Grein to fund and implement the project with Xavier’s help more than eight years ago.

More than $200,000 has been donated to charities across the tri-state, and more than 1,000 students have participated.

“At the award ceremonies, it became alive,” Grein said. “Just before that, it was just an idea in my head. At the ceremonies, I saw how it touched people. It became a win-win-win situation.”

The College of Mount St. Joseph, Thomas Moore

College, Wright State University, Wilmington College and the University of Kentucky also joined into the program.

Grein later heard about Campus Compact, an organization dedicated to promoting stronger community through service in higher education, which was involved with 1,100 colleges across the nation.

“I thought this was a great way to get this idea out across the country,” Grein said. “I signed a contract with them to support 16 colleges in Ohio and Kentucky, and they managed the program for me.”

Grein’s stock market investments tanked unexpectedly in 2010 when some banking values fell to pennies on the dollar. Aware of Grein’s financial situation, Ohio Campus Connect applied to the Corporation for National and Community Service learning. They received a grant to fund the program, which is in more than 30 colleges in Ohio, Kentucky and Michigan.

UC continues to utilize the grant by offering three classes that participate in the program, spanning quarters, fields of study and the state.

For the second consecutive year, Farrah Jacquez, professor of psychology, is teaching “Diversity and Health” on UC’s Main campus. The class examines the issue of child obesity living in poverty versus children living in middle-class environments.

But Jacquez’s students do not stop learning after they leave the classroom. When students travel to local schools to see the less-than-nutritious food options and hear the experiences of the children, the textbook topics come alive.

“We’re really trying to understand how health disparities affect Americans,” Jacquez said of her class, which devotes its volunteer work at the Academy of Multilingual

Immersion Studies — a school with the largest immigrant population in the Cincinnati Public School District. “My UC students learn about what we are reviewing in class, but they really come to understand it because they’re seeing it in real life.”

The class has had a positive effect on at least one of Jacquez’s students.

“I came from a town that was not very ethnically diverse,” said Emily McFarland, a second-year psychology and Spanish student. “Getting to come into contact with people that are culturally different than me is always really great, and I feel like I grow a lot.”

The course has touched on many of McFarland’s interest areas of Latino culture, psychology and health-related issues as well.

“It has broken some of my stereotypes about children and obesity,” McFarland said. “Sometimes you think kids are overweight because they are lazy, but when you go to their schools and see the

food options and the lack of school programs, you learn that isn’t true.”

When the class visits AMIS, Jacquez’s 35 students divide into seven groups, working with seven different classrooms in the school. Her students then work with the children to create what are essentially mini-grant proposals — what they believe is the best way to use the $5,000 grant.

McFarland’s group made a video presentation requesting a hip-hop dance instructor and padded mats for the students to wrestle, do yoga and gymnastics on.

“We went into it thinking that the kids wouldn’t want to dance,” McFarland said. “When we asked them to show us some of their dance moves, they were so excited. It really confirmed that we made the right choice because we saw how much fun they have doing that.”

Jacquez is seeing the positive, satisfying effect the service-learning experience is having on her students.

“By far, the most rewarding thing is seeing my students learn in a way that is not possible by sitting in a classroom,” Jacquez said.

Barbara Wallace has been teaching the Clermont regional campus’s portion of the PIF program through the English 289 “Writing, Philanthropy and Student Engagement” class.

Incorporating the English course and service learning, the class’s first essay prompts students to define the term “at-risk or disadvantaged youth.” The class is then compelled to do a profile of a nonprofit organization, which works with who the students defined in the first essay. After sharing their profiles, the class donates a minimum of $1,000 to two or three of the nonprofit organizations.

Students do this in the class while completing a minimum of 15 hours of service learning in the quarter at the Boys and Girls Clubs of Clermont County and keeping up with the amount of writing required for a parallel English course.

“It is more interesting to teach the students [with service-learning] because they are more engaged,” Wallace said. “The best example I have ever seen, in all the years I’ve taught, of critical thinking was when my students had to determine of all these various organization who they would give the grant funds to.”

MJ Woeste teaches “Introduction to Intercultural Communication,” which explores differences in communication practices among cultures, focusing on local populations that are living in poverty or are identified as marginalized communities. Students work with local agencies that assist male and female populations struggling with homelessness and addiction.

Grien’s hope of shaping young adults into philanthropists seems to be coming to fruition.

“After [students] are exposed to how great it is to serve and to give, they will continue those kinds of beliefs and behaviors and continue to serve,” Sharp said.

By far, the most rewarding thing is seeing my students learn in a way that is not possible by sitting in a

classroom.

—farrah jacquez psychology professor, pay it

forward participant

service learning teaches students, underprivileged community

EAMon QUEEnEy | PHOTO EDITOR

AMonG thE othErS The Pay It Forward “team” met to discuss options for marketing and funding for the program Feb. 21. More than $200,000 has been donated to charities across the tri-state area, and more than 1,000 students have participated in the program. The College of Mount st. Joseph, Thomas More College, wright state University, wilmington College and the University of Kentucky have also joined the program to improve schools, clubs and charities of children and adults in need.

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GIFt FroM GoD Roger Grein, recognized as “the soul” of the Pay It Forward service-learning program, claims he was born with the inclination to give to others. His contribution has reached the lives of thousands in the eight years it has been in place. The devout Catholic was diagnosed with cerebral palsy at the age of six months shortly after his adoption.

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Orange squeeze out 2-point win

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senIOr sTar sHInes UC’s leading scorer Shareese Ulis led the Bearcats with a game-high 20 points Tuesday against Syracuse.

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PaCKIng THe HeaT Sophmore pitcher Andrew Strenge finished his freshman year with a team-best 1.93 ERA and a 7-1 record.

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Finally, baseball season is upon us. Pitchers and catchers are in spring training camps, and the Cincinnati Reds are seeking to defend their 2010 National League Central Division title.

Last season, the playoffs were a bit of a novelty. It had been so long since the Reds were good after June that fans seemed content with just being in the playoffs and enjoying an entire season of relevant baseball.

So, can the Reds repeat? Of course they can. But

it’s a new season with a new set of challenges. I’m not guaranteeing anything for a team that has just one division championship in 15 years.

The right side of the infield is as solid as you’ll find in the league with defending NL MVP Joey Votto and Gold Glove second baseman Brandon Phillips.

They signed a veteran shortstop in Edgar Renteria. Though he’s aging, Renteria is coming off a World Series win with San Francisco.

He’ll hopefully be what Orlando Cabrera was last year for the Reds in a smaller role. I’d like to see Paul Janish be the everyday starter with Renteria sprinkled in to split the load.

Scott Rolen at third base scares me, though. All I can hope for from Rolen is for him to be good as late into the season as possible. Inevitably, he’ll get worn down and opposing pitchers will do what they did the last month of last season: blow fastballs by him.

That’s why I’d like to see young third baseman Juan Francisco come in and take some of the work off Rolen. In turn, Rolen will stay fresher and we can hopefully see Francisco’s monster bat we’ve heard so much about.

The outfield could have an even better season than 2010. Jay Bruce will continue to improve at the plate and his presence in the field will prove beneficial for years. Props to the front office for locking him up for six seasons.

Drew Stubbs is a quality center fielder who can cover ground with his speed. His quickness isn’t being used to its full potential, though, unless he finds his way into the leadoff spot. It’s a waste of his speed to have Stubbs batting deep in the lineup. How does he find his way into the one hole? By not striking out 168 times and having higher than a .329 on-base percentage.

Johnny Gomes will hold it down in left again and he’ll probably have another stretch early in the year where he’s everyone’s favorite player. As fans, we love the blazing hot streaks. In the same way, it gets frustrating once they cool down. Ride him while he’s hot and when he starts to trail off, work Chris Heisey and Fred Lewis into the mix.

I like Ryan Hanigan as the primary catcher. The guy gets on base more than anybody. There are even rumors of him leading off. I don’t want that, but it is nice to have a catcher that can produce.

The starting pitching will be good again, but the rotation is a question mark. Edinson Volquez will start Opening Day just one year removed from Tommy John surgery, but the problems come later in the rotation, with Mike Leake, Travis Wood and Homer Bailey vying for two spots.

Can Wood and Leake follow up their stellar rookie campaigns, or was it all smoke and mirrors?

In the bullpen, as good as he was last year, I’m glad Arthur Rhodes is gone. His foot wasn’t going to make it another season. And I’m predicting closer Francisco Cordero will be gone within two months.

I’d like to see Nick Masset come in as the setup man and Aroldis Chapman — the gas-throwing phenom — come in to close.

There are question marks. There always are. But I feel good about going into Opening Day this year expecting to win games.

I guess that’s what it feels like winning division championships.

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Josh Gardner, a former midfielder of the University of Cincinnati men’s soccer team, made his Columbus Crew debut Tuesday after signing a multi-year contract with the Major League Soccer club Monday.

“This is a very exciting opportunity for me. I am very happy that the coaching staff saw something in me and decided to bring me on board,” Gardner said. “It is a great opportunity to come to a team that has such great tradition.”

Gardner became the first MLS draftee out of Cincinnati after originally being drafted No. 13 overall by the Los Angeles Galaxy in the 2004 MLS SuperDraft. The Freeport, Texas, native spent three seasons with the Galaxy, including the team’s run to the ’04 MLS Cup.

After a two-year stint, which included winning the 2007 championship, with the United Soccer Leagues First Division’s Seattle Sounders, Gardner spent the past two seasons with the Carolina RailHawks of the U.S. Soccer Federation Division 2 Pro League.

Gardner tallied six goals and seven assists last season, helping the RailHawks reach the USSF D-2 championship game.

In three seasons at Cincinnati, Gardner appeared in all 60 matches from 2001 to 2003. He was named to the all-Conference USA second team as a sophomore and tied for the team lead with six goals and six assists in ’03.

Troy Everhart, director of recruiting services for the University of Cincinnati football team, is leaving the position after one season to return to Ohio high school football’s head coaching ranks.

Middletown High School announced Monday that Everhart will begin as the Middies’ new head coach March 1.

Before coming to Cincinnati, where he coordinated the Bearcats’ on-campus recruiting efforts, Everhart spent 13 years coaching Cincinnati-area high schools.

In 11 seasons as head coach at Winton Woods High School, Everhart earned an 80-41 record and led the Warriors to five consecutive playoff appearances and won the 2009 Ohio Division II state championship.

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On paper, the University of Cincinnati women’s basketball team did everything right against the Syracuse Orange Tuesday — except win.

In a narrow 55-53 defeat to the Orange (20-7, 8-6 Big East) at Fifth Third Arena, the Bearcats (8-18, 1-13) played one of their strongest games all season.

After being plagued by poor shooting all season, UC shot 38 percent from the field and 58 percent from 3-point range against Syracuse. In their second-best shooting performance against a Big East team this season, the Bearcats held the Orange to just 18-of-57 shooting.

“At the end of the day, I’m proud of my team,” said Cincinnati head coach Jamelle Elliott. “My team showed me that we are capable of being a good team today.” Despite facing a height disadvantage, Cincinnati won the battle of the boards, outrebounding Syracuse 35-34.

The Bearcats began the game rolling on all cylinders, going on a 23-5 run and building a 19-point first-half lead. It took the Orange nearly 12 minutes to score their first field goal, but Syracuse ended the half with a 13-2 run to enter halftime trailing 32-24.

The Orange began the second half where they left off in the first, going on an 18-4 run to reclaim the lead.

“We executed our game plan to a T,” Elliott said. “We outrebounded them by one and they lead the nation in rebounding differential — the nation — and we outrebounded them by one.”

Senior guard Shareese Ulis led the Bearcats with a game-high 20 points. Freshman guard Kayla Cook added 13.

“Ulis had a little bit of a bounce in her step today,” Elliott said. “One of the things I told her after the game was, ‘Look, it doesn’t matter how you play from here on out. The way you played today is how I’m going to remember you.’ ”

After missing two seasons because of knee injuries, senior Shelly Bellman was taken out after two minutes Tuesday with a shoulder injury.

“It’s a possibility Shelly Bellman may have seen the court for the last time as a UC Bearcat,” Elliott said. “She came off the court with a shoulder injury because she said she heard something pop.”

With 7:53 remaining and Cincinnati trailing by eight, the Bearcats went on an 8-2 run, but came two points shy of avoiding their 12th-straight loss.

“We lost the game when they took [Ulis and Cook] out of it,” Elliott said. “It forced our [other] players to win the game for us and we came up a little short.”

The Bearcats return to action at 2 p.m. Saturday against No. 8 Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind.

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The toughest test of the young season awaits the University of Cincinnati baseball team Friday as the Bearcats head to Clemson, S.C., to face the No. 5 Tigers in their opening game of the First Pitch Invitational.

Clemson (2-1) possesses solid pitching and hitting, with Spencer Kieboom at the helm with five hits, eight RBIs and the team-best .556 batting average. Two other Tigers have averages better than .450.

Pitcher Kevin Brady recorded 10 strikeouts and posted a 1.69 ERA against Eastern Michigan in his last outing.

“One of the things our guys have to learn to do is play the same way every day, whether you’re playing the No. 5 in the country or somebody who is No. 100,” said UC head coach Brian Cleary. “That’s much easier said than done, but it will be a good test for us to see if we can show up and play, pay attention to what we’re doing and not get caught up with who we’re playing.”

Cincinnati will round out its

second weekend of the season in Greenville, S.C., facing Charleston Southern Saturday and Furman Sunday.

Although the Bearcats finished their season-opening weekend with a 1-2 record, some positives came from the team’s first games together.

Freshman outfielder Justin Glass was named to the Big East/Big Ten Challenge all-tournament team Monday after tallying six hits, scoring three runs and finishing the weekend with a .545 batting average.

Catcher Jake Saylor totaled five hits and four runs while batting .385 through the season’s first three games.

“I think our newcomers have largely done a really good job, highlighted by Saylor and Glass both having good weekends,” Cleary said.

Pitching was the area of concern during opening weekend, however. Following an all-American freshman campaign last season, Andrew Strenge allowed six hits and five runs and committed five pitching errors with zero strikeouts Friday against Illinois.

“When it’s your first outing of the season, I think sometimes guys can panic a bit,” Cleary said. “Hopefully it was just one bad outing. We can’t let it lead to two.”

The pitching staff as a whole allowed 40 hits, 20 runs and committed 20 pitching errors while averaging a 7.50 ERA this season.

“We didn’t get rock-solid

performances from everybody,” Cleary said. “We need to get a little more consistent on the mound.”

The Bearcats will be without outfielder Jamell Cervantez in South Carolina. The junior strained his hamstring Sunday against Michigan State. Cervantez will miss at least one month due to the injury,” Cleary said.

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Yancy Gates’ 17 points and game-high 12 rebounds combined with a stifling Cincinnati defense that limited Georgetown to just four second-half field goals paced the Bearcats to a 58-46 win against the No. 11 Hoyas Wednesday at the Verizon Center in the nation’s capital.

Cincinnati (22-6, 9-6 Big East) all but punched its ticket to the NCAA tournament with the road win — the Bearcats’ first against a ranked opponent in their past 23 tries.

Georgetown, the nation’s No. 2 team in shooting percentage entering Wednesday, shot just 25 percent overall and worse than 22 percent from 3-point range.

Cincinnati forced the shooting struggles by switching between a man-to-man and zone

defense, while its press helped force 13 turnovers.

“You’re foolish if you’re going to just play them half-court man [defense] and let them get into that rhythm,” said UC head coach Mick Cronin. “To continue to change eliminates any rhythm for them. That was our goal, just to take them out of any rhythm.”

Gates’ fifth double-double of the season came on 7-of-12 shooting, Dion Dixon added 17 points with 5-of-9 shooting and Rashad Bishop made all four of his 3-pointers for 12 points.

“Obviously, Yancy was unbelievable tonight,” Cronin said. “I thought [Dixon] played great. I could tell he was in a rhythm early shooting the basketball. There was no doubt about it. He and Rashad both knocked down shots for us.”

Dixon knotted the score early

with a 3-pointer that went on to spark a 14-0 Bearcats run that gave Cincinnati its largest lead of the first half: a 19-8 advantage 11 minutes in.

After being kept scoreless for four and a half minutes, Georgetown (21-7, 10-6) responded with eight unanswered points and ended the half on an 18-7 run to send the squads into halftime tied at 26.

The Bearcats began the second half with nine-straight points and kept the Hoyas without a field goal until just more than nine and a half minutes remained. By that point, UC had built a 14-point lead, its largest of the game.

Georgetown got to within eight points with just less than four minutes to play, but Cincinnati made nine of its last 10 free throws in the final two minutes to ice the win.

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dOUBle-dOUBle sTYle Yancy Gates totaled his fifth double-double of the season Wednesday at Georgetown.

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Although the chanting and bullhorns of the crowd nearly drowned out the testimonies, the protest ended without chaos or violence.

“The effect I hope [the protest] has is that part of the truth comes out: They’re demonizing the union,” said “Bob,” another unionized UC worker. “They’re demonizing everything we worked for. They’re making it seem like the state is in financial trouble because of the union. we just don’t want to give up negotiation rights. No one ever said the unions weren’t ready to get in there and work through the problems.”

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