Born in Indiana and educated in Georgia, Greg Hoard came to Cincinnati in the winter of 1979 as a columnist for the Cincinnati Post sports department, and joined the Cincinnati Enquirer in 1984 as the beat writer for the Cincinnati Reds.  He has received numerous awards for his work.In 1990, he left journalism for television. Hoard worked for WLWT-TV from 1990 through 1993 as sports director and spent 12 years as sports director at WXIX-TV.His written work has appeared in Sports Illustrated, The Sporting News, Baseball America, Baseball Digest and NFL Game Day. He has appeared on ESPN and NBC’s The Today Show.Greg is the author of three books: Joe, Rounding Home and Heading for Home; Gary Burbank, Voices in My Head; and, most recently, Hannan’s Way, An Unlikely Trek Through Life. He is currently working on a baseball memoir, parts of which he will share here.
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Thursday, 21 September 2017 / Published in Features, Profile Feature, Profiles

Hoard: When A Chicken Dance Is The High Point In A Season

They've done the typical; they've done the atypical. And still, the Bengals are bad. With nothing to compare with the league best franchises, it leaves little with which to elicit fan favor. They're now the featured guests for Oktoberfest, and beer drinking!
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Monday, 11 September 2017 / Published in Features, Profile Feature, Profiles

Once Again, We Thank You, Marty

He's signed through 2018. After that, he is not sure what he will do. He’s 75. The West Coast road trips are becoming more difficult for Marty Brenneman. And one day now we'll turn on the game and he'll be gone. It'll be a hard day...for a lot of people. Read Greg Hoard's latest inside feature.
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Sunday, 10 September 2017 / Published in Features

Hoard: A Little Help, Andy Dalton Is In Deep ‘Do-Do’

One thing was clearly evident from Sunday's fiasco. A fix has to be found, found quick, and it has to be a BIG FIX. Otherwise, buckle in for a long, cold winter. The Bengals struggled, and that's an understatement. Read the rest of the statement from Greg Hoard...in today's inside feature.
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Friday, 21 July 2017 / Published in Features

Hoard: Back From The Health Hole

For the past six months, Greg Hoard has been missing from these pages and not by choice. Time and some bad habits caught up with him, he'll tell you. And, you never really do know what you've got 'til it's gone. Read more about that in today's inside feature.
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Sunday, 18 June 2017 / Published in Features

Encore Hoard: How Can We Save The All-Star Game…?

Once upon a time it was about the best players among their peers and not the most popular players among fans, as the National League All-Stars welcome Stan Musial (far left) after his walk-off homer won the 1955 Mid-Summer Classic. Read more from Greg Hoard in today's Press Pros inside feature.