5/20/13, 3:05 p.m. The Bengals get to move the pieces on that $40 million chessboard folded out by Mike Brown and Marvin Lewis in the offseason for the first time Tuesday at 11 a.m. when they hold the first of nine voluntary practices at Paul Brown Stadium before the June 10-12 mandatory minicamp. The bulk of the money in what is one of those rare offseasons that translated virtually flawlessly from the grease board to the depth chart went to re-signing players vital to the club's back-to-back playoff appearances. "We can see the Bengals as an organization doing as good a job developing their roster as any team in the league," says NFL pundit Solomon Wilcots. Read More
5/20/13: Bengals left tackle Andrew Whitworth took some notes Sunday while playing in the Marvin Lewis Golf Classic at Shaker Run Golf Course. But he already learned the biggest lesson from his head coach when he snagged Lewis himself to speak at his own foundation dinner next month in Louisiana.
5/19/13: Greg Lloyd has seen enough to believe that the man who replaced him as the heart, soul and bad boy of the Steelers defense can help give the Bengals some nostalgic new blood.
5/18/13: Meet Nick Whitmore, a Mason High School senior bound for pre-med at the University of Toledo and another one of Marvin Lewis's Amazings, that annual group of five MLCF college scholarship winners that always seems to churn out admirable stories more astonishing than the year before.