McCoy: UD Flyers Build Big Lead, Then Hold Off Saint Joseph’s
By Hal McCoy Dayton, OH — There were 18 credentials issued for NBA scouts for Friday’s Saint Joseph’s-Dayton basketball game in always raucous, always filled UD Arena. They ostensibly came to see Xzayvier Brown, whose parents obviously tried to use every seldom-used consonant in his first name. And maybe they were there to check out […]
McCoy: UD Posts Blue Collar, Blue Chip Win At Duquesne
By Hal McCoy Pittsburgh, PA — Somebody once said, “Take the high road, the view is better.” So far this season, the Flyers traveled the low road when they visited Atlantic-10 opponents and the view was uglier than a waste dump. That all changed with a vengeance Tuesday night against Duquesne in the UPMC Cooper […]
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 […]