Jalen (Clutcher) Crutcher’s ‘three’ at buzzer beats Saint Louis in overtime
By HAL McCOY The Saint Louis University basketball team wears an imprint of the Gateway Arch on their white home uniforms, a landmark on the banks of the Mississippi River that is 630 feet tall. And with 7:40 left in a basketball game at Chaifetz Arena Friday night, the University of Dayton Flyers trailed Saint […]
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 […]
Flyers overcome early struggles to beat Saint Joseph’s
By HAL McCOY The University of Dayton Flyers basketball team answered three poignant questions about itself Sunday afternoon in Philadelphia — questions they hoped they’d never have to confront. —Can they win a game when they played relatively poorly against a bad team? Yes. —Can they win a game when superstar Obi Toppin becomes a […]
UD annihilates LaSalle in Philly, 84-58
By HAL McCOY The school motto on the University of Dayton campus is: “Our home is a powerhouse.” That motto certainly fits the school’s basketball team because the University of Dayton Flyers are a certified powerhouse. And they seem to get better and better and better with each passing game. Some solid evidence surfaced Thursday […]
Toppin dunks 10 times as Flyers bury North Florida, 77-59
By HAL McCOY There once was a team, back in the early 1980s, that called itself Phi Slama Jama. It was the University of Houston and the fraternity nickname came from the fact that the team dunked, dunked, dunked and dunked some more. On Monday night in UD Arena, the University of Dayton Flyers concocted […]
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 […]