Observations: Will there be ‘Gray’ skies over Cincinnati’s pitching mound
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from the Man Cave while waiting for the Los Angeles Rams to beat the New Orleans Saints and the Kansas City Chiefs to beat the New England Patriots in the NFL playoffs. It could be a long wait. It came as no shock that The Brady Bunch (the Patriots) beat […]
Observations: Catchy things while catching up
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, awaiting the snow apocalypse that must be coming, judging by the grocery cart grand prix going on at Kroger. —There are still five top-level free agent starting pitchers looking for employment, but none seems destined to wear a Cincinnati Reds uniform in 2019. The latest rumors […]
Observations: Meyer, Haskins go out as winners (barely)
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, ready to visit my ophthalmologist to see if he can clear up my bleary eyes after watching what seemed like 158 bowl games over the last month —The Ohio State University Buckeyes gave coach Urban Meyer a nice parting gift for his last game, a 28-23 […]
Observations: Coming close not good enough for Browns, Bengals
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave while watching the Bengals come close against the Pittsburgh Steelers and simultaneously listening on the radio to the Cleveland Browns come close to the Baltimore Ravens. But you know what they say about coming close — coming close only works with hand grenades and horseshoes. —Cleveland […]
Observations: Bengals fans, get used to the Browns
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave awaiting the arrival of The McCoy Brood and the celebration of the McCoy Family Christmas, without anybody like Cousin Eddie and his RV. —Cincinnati Bengals fans, God bless ‘em, can’t believe their team lost two games to the Cleveland Browns this season. A word to the […]
Observations: Duke wins in MSG despite poor shooting, foul trouble
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave while watching some football bowl game, but don’t ask which one because all these fabricated bowl games between .500 teams just blur together. —Are the NBA rims smaller than the college rims? Not really. It only seemed that way Wednesday night when Duke played Texas Tech […]
Observations: Once again, UD or Wright State?
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave after watching Ohio State football coach Urban Meyer get more TV face time than Shaquille O’Neal and set an ABC-TV record from grimaces and grabbing the top of the head with both hands. His team needs to hold the football with both hands. —Let the heated […]
Observations: Some ‘C’mon’ moments from the sports world
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, anxiously waiting to see Englewood’s Ryan Roth do his award-wining Tribute to Elvis show Saturday night in Miamisburg. He promised to do my favorite, American Trilogy. —Pre-season prognosticators predicted that Eastern Michigan would be one of the Mid-American Conference’s best basketball teams this season and junior […]
Observations: Put Duke in NBA and be done with it
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave knowing that those three super freshmen at Duke will be in the NBA next year, so why not just replace the Cleveland Cavaliers with Duke right now and be done with it. —Ever wonder why the Mid-American Conference plays a lot of football games on week […]