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 […]
Watson, Chatman carry Flyers past Grambling, 81-53, with career bests
By HAL McCOY If the University of Dayton basketball team scanned the statistics of Grambling State’s early-season games, they might have entered Monday’s night’s game at UD Arena with some trepidation. Early in the season Grambling scored 145 points in one game and 102 in another. But the 145 came against a school called Ecclesia […]
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 […]
OBSERVATIONS: A view from the Sun Room rocking chair
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Sun Room, staying within reach of my walker and those infernal plastic urinals. Nadine asked me today when is the best time to check my blood pressure and I said, “Well, in the hospital it was every time I went to sleep.” —QUOTE: From Ronald Dahl, “Those who […]
How you know when you are a failure
By HAL McCOY There are times in life when you realize you are a complete failure. For me, the time is now. And coming from me, a guy who has been blessed with good fortune and wonderful happenstances, that is saying a lot. But when you fail the one person you love most in life, […]
OBSERVATIONS: Odds & Ends from The Man Cave
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave while watching the University of Kentucky beat No. 1 (at the time) Michigan State. Was thorughly impressed with UK guard Tyrese Maxey. It is evident he loves the game because his smile is so bright they could play the game without lights. —There are some in […]
OBSERVATIONS: The Browns are nothing but black-and-blue
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave while watching the Cleveland Browns wear football uniform costumes for Halloween and not to play winning football. They had no tricks and they are not a treat. —Call the coroner and the undertaker because the Cleveland Browns are dead and buried. The only award they will […]
OBSERVATIONS: Mostly about the Reds, Nationals and Astros
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Sun Room, gladly trying to help Nadine as much as I can (feebly) after she had her second total knee replacement surgery. After all, she has spent half her life taking care of me, a really tough assignment she accepts without a whimper. —There is a new book […]