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 […]
Observations: Touching many bases in the sports world
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from the Man Cave, thinking on Armistice Day about my dad, who served in The Philippines in World War II. He brought home a Japanese sniper rifle and to the day he died he would not talk about it. Thanks to him and all who served and are serving in […]
Observations: About Fig Newtons, beer vendors and Edsels
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave while watching the Pittsburgh Steelers score 14 points with only one play from scrimmage in 13 seconds. Ben Roethlisberger threw a 75-yard touchdown pass on his first play of the game, then Vince Williams intercepted a Cam Newton pass for a pick-six. And when it was […]
Observations: Sparty still smarting from 48-3 beating last year
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, laughing while reading that the University of Dayton’s Wednesday basketball opponent, North Florida, is nicknamed the Ospreys and its male and female mascots are named Ozzie & Harriet. —This is from the Detroit Free Press (where I worked for a year) about Saturday’s Ohio State-Michigan State […]
Some observations on college football and other stuff
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave while watching a delayed telecast of the Penn-Cornell football game (I’m demented) and I swear there aren’t 50 people in the stands. It is 0-0 and I check something else on my cellphone and discover Penn won, 20-7. Nobody gave me a spoiler alert. —Several football […]