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, […]
UD Flyers nip Belmont to take ESPN Events title
By Hal McCoy The glass slippers still fit Cinderella and right now they are worn by the University of Dayton basketball team. When the Flyers arrived at Disney World for the ESPN Events Invitational, they were thought of as more like Mickey Mouse than Cinderella. They came to the eight-team tournament as the only team […]
UD Flyers shock the basketball world with win over No. 4 Kansas, 74-73
By Hal McCoy It is extremely easy to get ESPN analyst Dickie Vitale excitable, but he was above and beyond Saturday when the University Dayton stunned the basketball world. The Flyers, prohibitive underdogs to Kansas, the No. 4 team in the nation, pulled the unfathomable upset, 74-73, in the ESPN Events Invitational in Orlando, Fla. […]
UD Flyers thaw out in Florida, stun Miami, 76-60
By Hal McCoy Just when it looked as if the University of Dayton basketball team would be in a season-long deep freeze, they went to Florida and thawed out. The Flyers, losers of three straight to mediocre mid-major teams, scored a major upset on Thanksgiving Day in the ESPN Events Invitational Tournament in Orlando, Fla. […]
UD Flyers: A wild, wild winner in double overtime
By Hal McCoy For the first 20 minutes Saturday afternoon, it looked as if the University of Dayton basketball team’s trip to Atlanta was to practice its turnovers in a facility other than UD Arena. In their first three games this season, the Flyers won two, despite bundles and bundles of turnovers. And it was […]