Flyers Shed Losing Streak…barely
By Hal McCoy Dayton, OH. — Two things attract Jordan Derkack on a basketball floor — the orange paint on the rim and the black stripe of the foul line. Derkack spends more time bull-rushing the rim and dallying at the foul line than a football fan in front of a TV set on Super […]
McCoy: Suarez Returns ‘Home’
By Hal McCoy When the Cincinnati Reds hit at least one home run in a game last season, they were 58-36. When they hit no homers in a game, they were 25-44. Why bring that up? It was as obvious as the wishbone-C on their uniform chests that the Reds hungered for a consitent power […]
Some Sunday OBSERVATIONS
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave thinking about being a great grandfather several times over. People ask me if that makes me feel old and I say, “No, being a great grandfather doesn’t make me feel old. Knowing that my son is a grandfather. . .that makes me feel old.” —PUSHY PEDRO: […]
Saint Loo Flogs Flyers, 102-71
By Hal McCoy St. Louis, MO. — Robby Avila, a bespectacled 6-foot-10 center for Saint Louis, buried a three-pointer ten seconds into the game. . .and this game was over. From there, Saint Louis rained threes on the University of Dayton Flyers as if taking target practice from 23 feet. The Billikens hit 17 of […]
Miller, Rhode Island Stun UD
By Hal McCoy Dayton, OH. — There are some things that are certain — the sun sets in the west, one and one makes two, the Pacific Ocean is deep and the University of Dayton Flyers will lose games they shouldn’t lose. But three in a row? After losing back-to-back games in Philadelphia to lowly-regarded […]
Another UD Disaster
By Hal McCoy PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — For the University of Dayton Flyers it was four days, two losses and suddenly a steep hill to climb. And nobody in a Dayton uniform appears to have a pair of mountain-climbing boots. On Saturday afternoon, the Flyers couldn’t even climb Hawk Hill on the St. Joseph’s campus, losing […]
UD Throws In A Clunker
By Hal McCoy Philadelphia, PA. — The City of Brotherly Love was anything but love for the University of Dayton Flyers basketall troupe Wednesday night. LaSalle Universtiy apparently was not impressed nor intimidated by Las Vegas installing UD as 10 1/2-point favorites to win its sixth straight Atlantic 10 Conference game. The Explorers (7-13, 3-4) […]
Some mid-week Observations…
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave and as I sit in front of my laptop listening to Do Wah Diddy Diddy by Manfred Mann, it sounds like something baseball commissioner Rob Manfred would say at a rules meeting. —‘WE’RE NUMBER FOUR’: Jim Bowden was a general manager with the Cincinnati Reds during […]
Flyers ‘Dunk’ N. Florida
By Hal McCoy Dayton, OH. — With Obi Toppin in the house, the University of Dayton basketball team paid homage to the UD legend with a Symphony of Dunks. Toppin, who dunked 190 times during his two-year career, was in UD Arena Saturday night to be inducted into the Flyers Hall of Fame. The Flyers […]