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: Some ‘C’mon’ moments in sports
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICTED OBSERVTIONS 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: UD uses pickles for medicinal purposes
By HAL McCOY UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave after covering the UD-North Florida basketball game for PressProsMagazine and discovering that Ohio State can play defense, except it was the basketball team doing it in Cincinnati, stunning the Bearcats, 64-56. —It isn’t clear if the University of Dayton discovered this on a grant from the […]
Reds sign another name coach and other observations
By HAL McCOY ,UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave watching four of the top teams in college basketball open the season against each other — Kansas-Michigan State, Duke-Kentucky. What a lineup. It is like watching The Final Four in November. Either Kentucky forgot to send its first team or Duke’s entire lineup is NBA-ready. —The […]
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 […]