OBSERVATIONS: UD’s Grant Waxes Eloquently On Flyers
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, breaking in a new heater as I pace the room awating the Ohio State-Notre Dame game — and it is No-tra Dame, not Norter Dame. —IT IS SPELLED T-E-A-M: After the University of Dayton basketball team lost three straight Atlantic-10 games, social media was a conflagration […]
McCoy: UD’s L’Etang, Smith Combine on Final Play in OT To Beat Loyola
By Hal McCoy Dayton, OH — For the University of Dayton Flyers, it was ‘Vive La France’ Saturday afternoon in UD Arena, with a mixture of The Bronx. Amael L’etang, UD’s 7-foot-1 freshman human Eiffel Tower, scored the biggest basket of his fledgling career and the biggest basket of the season for Dayton. L’etang took […]
UD Flyers Flop And Fall Again
By Hal McCoy Dayton, OH — There is a mystery team wearing University of Dayton basketball team uniforms, impostors one and all. Those weren’t The Real Flyers floating around UD Arena like lost butterflies. Those weren’t The Real Flyers taking proverbial punches to the solar plexus from George Mason on UD’s own Blackburn Court. George […]
New UD football coach an emotional guy
By Hal McCoy Trevor Andrews answered his phone, a call from University of Dayton athletic director Neil Sullivan. “Are you ready to be head football coach at the University of Dayton?” Sullivan asked. “Do you seriously have to ask me that?” said Andrews. And on a cold, drizzly afternoon outside UD Arena, Andrews was introduced […]
OBSERVATIONS: John McVay dies at 91, got his start at UD
By HAL McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave after the Cleveland Browns showed the Cincinnati Bengals all tricks and gave them no treats on Halloween Night. UD LEGACY: John McVay is known as an executive for the San Francisco 49ers, a guy who helped put together five Super Bowl winners in a 14-year span. […]
OBSERVATIONS: Some thoughts about a ‘real’ baseball man
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave and I never thought I’d ever say this, but. . .”With the state baseball is in, I wouldn’t care if they canceled the entire MLB season. I can get my fix with the Dayton Dragons, Wright State baseball, UD baseball and my grandson’s and great grandson’s […]
OBSERVATIONS: Analyst predicts NCAA title for Dayton’s Flyers
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, filling out a questionnaire asking, “Coke or Peps,’’with Royal Crown Cola, and “Wheaties or Cheerios” with Quaker Oats and “Ford or Chevrolet” with Dodge. Bet they don’t send me any more questionnaires. —ESPN college basketball analyst Mark Adams is a brave, bold and hopefully not a […]
OBSERVATIONS: UD’s Flyers dominate A-10 ‘Rookie’ award
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, in search of a stronger heater because it is colder there when the heater shuts down than Mammoth Cave, Ky. —There is an abundance of freshmen and first-year basketball players in the Atlantic 10 Conference, but folks must wonder if the University of Dayton cornered the […]
UD Flyers playing like Secretariat with fast starts
By Hal McCoy If they put saddles on the University of Dayton’s starting five, they would resemble the iconic thoroughbred Secretariat breaking from the starting gate. Earlier this week, the Flyers broke from the gate with an 18-2 start, burying Alabama State shortly after they took off their pre-game practice shirts. Pretty good, huh? Well, […]