For the first time in the new year we share reader comments on recent posts and commentary on both the culture and the future of amateur sports...and both sides of the argument. Wrote one:  "We're not being honest with kids when we don't teach them to compete." 

Reader response in the past week to editorial content on Ohio State, and the Ohio State-Michigan game, makes for an interesting twist. And, first responses on the OHSAA state football tournament in the latest installment of ‘The Reader Speaks’.

It comes as no surprise that the majority of mail received since the last Reader Speaks post was over the Marion Local/Versailles football game, and other issues relative to high school officiating...including, do they make enough to make it worthwhile?

Tons of new responses from readers new and old...on sophisticated squirrel eating...is it safe to see a Reds game in Cincinnati...fewer high school divisions based on skill...and whatever happened to the story about Wally Post? Read more in the latest installment of 'The Reader Speaks'.