Of Sinclair (McNeil), Wright State and UD
By HAL McCOY It’s free. No charge. Just walk right in and sit right down. And two bags of popcorn, a 20-ounce bottle of Diet Pepsi, a 20-ounce bottle of water and a Reese’s Cup cost $4.5o. True, Building 8 on the Sinclair College campus is difficult to locate and bread crumbs are recommended to […]
UD puts on a clinic to shake off Mullins Center bugaboo, rips UMass, 72-48
By HAL McCOY For as long as anybody can remember, the Mullins Center on the University of Massachusetts campus has been a Fieldhouse of Frustration for University of Dayton basketball teams. Obi Toppin was 6-years-old and Josh Cunningham was 8-years old when the Flyers last won a game in the decrepit old joint. UD’s last […]
Wood, Reds pitching rocked by Mariners, 11-3
By HAL McCOY Unsolicited observations from The Man Cave after fighting, and mostly losing, to a virus infection and a bad cold (are there any good ones?). It wasn’t a write-home-to-mom day for Cincinnati Reds pitchers Monday during a spring training exhibition game in Peoria, Ariz. against the Seattle Mariners, a game the Reds lost, […]
Flyers hold off furious Davidson finish to post big A-10 win, 74-73
By HAL McCOY For 32 1/2 minutes, the Davidson College basketball team ran into the Perfect Storm and that storm wore the red and blue of the University of Dayton. The Flyers played perfect half-court defense and perfect get-it-inside offense for those 32 1/2 minutes, enabling them to construct a 16-point lead with 7 1/2 […]
Wright State-Northern Kentucky: Basketball at its best
By HAL McCOY There could not have been a more exciting, more competitive and more well-played basketball than what was enacted Friday night at the Nutter Center. Wright State University and Northern Kentucky University left a dozen hearts on the floor in a hand-to-hand combat battle for first place in the Horizon League. Wright State, […]
Flyers flawless while flailing Rhode Island, 77-48
By HAL McCOY It was almost as if University of Dayton basketball coach Anthony Grant sat his team down after a plug-ugly loss at Saint Louis early in the week and said as they watched video, “Don’t do that, don’t do that and don’t do that. Do this and do this and do this.” And […]
Saint Louis dominates offensive glass, leaves Flyers shattered
By HAL McCOY With a golden opportunity under the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, the University of Dayton Flyers might have better spent their time Tuesday night riding the tram to the top of the Arch. Down on Mother Earth in Chaifetz Arena, the Flyers were unfrocked by Saint Louis University, 73-60. The Flyers arrived […]
Dragons: A franchise celebrates its legacy
By HAL McCOY It was on a cold winter’s day in the late 1990s, not as cold as today but when is it ever this cold, that a group led by Dayton City Commissioner Tony Capizzi proposed a minor league baseball team for The Gem City. In my inimitable wisdom, I sat behind my computer […]
Observations: Too many teams live or die with three-pointers
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, wondering if this tale is true. After a flight from New Orleans to New York, a man was knocked down and his wallet was taken as he disembarked. There was a close witness, a guy wearing a black baseball cap, a black and white striped shirt, […]