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Bengals hunt for WRs as blog never sleeps

‘ARMAGEDDON’ EVERY DAY

The relative calm of a delightful Tuesday (April 8) kept getting shattered.

Not that it bothered me at all.

In fact, I enjoyed it. It comes with the territory of being the Cincinnati Bengals beat writer for the Dayton Daily News and author of a blog — “Ludwig At Large” — that keeps gaining momentum … that keeps growing in popularity … that never sleeps.

I like to say “It’s Armageddon every day on the Bengals beat.” Well, it was. And it is.

At 12:30 p.m., I’m involved in making the Bengals selection for the Sporting News’ Mock Draft.

At 4:30 p.m., I get a call from Cincinnati Bengals assistant public relations director P.J. Combs announcing the club has just signed wide receiver Doug Gabriel to a one-year contract. P.J. and his boss, Jack Brennan, are in San Francisco for the league PR meetings.

At 5 p.m., Leo Goeas, the agent for Bengals defensive tackle Domata Peko, dials me up from Colorado Springs, saying his client has been exonerated of any alleged wrongdoing stemming from a March 30 incident involving some Bengals players at Cincinnati’s BANG Nightclub.

DADDY-O OF THE RADIO

At 5:20 p.m., I do a telephone interview with Mark Neal and Kreg Miller on WING-AM (1410 ESPN) radio in Dayton, Ohio.

At 7 p.m., I do another telephone interview, this one with KKEA-AM (1420 ESPN) radio in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Then I check my voice mail and find I have missed a call from Jake “The Snake” Trotter, the Oklahoma Sooners beat writer for The Oklahoman newspaper.

He informs me that the agent for Sooners wide receiver Malcolm Kelly confirmed the Bengals will fly Kelly to Cincinnati for a private meeting immediately after he works out in front of NFL scouts at OU’s Everest Indoor Training Center.

Kelly is also scheduled to meet with the Minnesota Vikings and Washington Redskins later in the week. And, yes, the dag-gum Buffalo Bills are also very interested in Kelly.

After writing a story for the Dayton Daily News’ April 9 editions, I shut down my MacIntosh iBook G4 computer — just to give it a little rest.

(My boss, Brian Kollars, told me last summer he was going to send the Georgetown Fire Department to hose my computer down, but he never did!)

PAIR OF SHADOWS BY DAY

I punished some pepperoni pie from Marco’s Pizza, and channel surfed on my living room TV.

I watched the Tennessee Lady Vols win their second straight NCAA championship with a 64-48 victory over Stanford. Sure would’ve been nice if the Cardinal bothered showing up. It’s tough to play hoops in a coma.

And I also watched the Cincinnati Reds fall in Milwaukee, 3-2, in 10 innings.

My esteemed former colleague, Bucky Albers, now retired, once told me: “I just feel better when the Reds win.”

I agree wholeheartedly.

It’s just midnight and I’m going to bed, feeling semi-miserable.

My alarm is set for 5:20 a.m.

Two journalism students from Centerville High School are going to shadow me today (Wednesday, April 9).

We’re going to the Dayton Daily News for a newsroom tour. We’ll head to Cincinnati for a tour of Paul Brown Stadium. We’ll check out the DDN’s Print Technology Center in Franklin.

I wonder what the Bengals will do today?

My speech to the young J-School studs will go something like this:

“Welcome to Armageddon, men. C’mon in. The water’s fine.”

Contact Chick Ludwig at (937) 225-2253 or cludwig@DaytonDailyNews.com

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April 9, 2008 7:24 AM | Link to this

Speaking of Armageddon, it would be draft Armageddon if the Bengals take any of this year’s WRs at #9. Just ask Detroit how fixating on first round wide receivers at the expense of more gaping holes has worked out for them.

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April 9, 2008 10:35 AM | Link to this

Why don’t the Bengals go sign Robert Redd - Dayton native and record holding WR now playing for the Cleveland Gladiators. They’d have a phenominal athlete AND a person with great moral character!!

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