Wright State buries Northern Kentucky with an avalanche of points, 95-63
By HAL McCOY Wright State University did not make a statement Friday night in the Nutter Center — they made a full-blown filibuster in front of a national television audience. The Horizon League’s second best team, Northern Kentucky, came to town believing it could knock off the Raiders and move into a first-place tie. It […]
OBSERVATIONS: When the Reds could have had Derek Jeter
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave while waiting to watch the Milwaukee Bucks play the Carolina Hornets in an NBA game in Paris. And what’s with the ‘Cream City’ on the front of Milwaukee’s uniforms. Cream? Isn’t Milwaukee famous for beer? Ok, cheese? But cream? —No, it wasn’t me, I wasn’t the […]
OBSERVATIONS: Nothing new in ESPN’s Rose documentary
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from the Man Cave after discarding my cane to stagger around under my own limited power as my broken hip howls in protest. But it gets better every day. —ESPN’s ‘Back Story’ on the banishments from baseball of Shoeless Joe Jackson and Pete Rose was mostly rehash stuff, nothing new, […]
OBSERVATIONS: Make the Astros send the World Series trophy to LA
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave wondering how many teams stole signs from the Cincinnati Reds to account for those 33 one-run losses last year, —The wrath of Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred fell on the Houston Astros like a ton of new juiced baseballs. Because the Astros illegally stole signs electronically in […]
OBSERVATIONS: Of Don Larsen, Roy Williams and the Boston cheaters
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, slowly recovering from my broken hip, but finally getting out and about. That included a two-hour trip to Portsmouth Wednesday to attend the city’s annual murals/baseball dinner. Marty Brennaman was the speaker and, as always, had the room (a very big room with 350 people in […]
OBSERVATIONS: Of the Browns, Reds, UD, Wright State
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Sun Room (Like Douglas MacArthur, I shall return. . .to the Man Cave soon), wondering why I can’t find another football bowl game on TV, like the Acme Fly Swatter Bowl or the Bombastic Baked Beans Bowl or the Meow Mix Bowl. —The Cleveland Browns, of course, messed […]
OBSERVATIONS: Lost weekend for Football Bucks, Basketball Bucks and Browns
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Sun Room, bleary-eyed from watching too many bowl games involving too many teams that don’t belong in bowl games. Of course, considering some of the cold-weather venues and the lack of fans, some of the bowls were more like punishment than rewards. —By my accounting, Ohio State beat […]
Observations: The only bowl missing is the Toilet Bowl in Flushing, N.Y.
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from the sun room after practicing walking with a cane so I can get rid of the walker. Remember, ye old-timers, how Amos McCoy from the TV show The Real McCoys walked with a limp, flailing out his elbow? Nadine says that’s how I’m walking with the cane. Well, why […]
OBSERVATIONS: Hey, Astros, cheaters never win in the end
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from the sun room after listening to a ‘get well’ message sent to me by University of Dayton basketball player Trey Landers. What a class act, a kid who epitomizes what UD basketball is all about. —The Houston Astros can do it all on the cheating front. They used high-tech […]