McCoy: Flyers’ Wake-Up Call Is Too Late
By Hal McCoy Chicago, ILL. — The University of Dayton basketball team’s wake-up call came too late Friday night at Loyola Chicago. The Flyers overslept. By the time their alarm clocks went off, the Flyers were down by 13 points with 10 1/2 minutes left. They then jumped out of their pajamas and cut that […]
OBSERVATIONS: What They Say And What They Mean
By Hal McCoy OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave with another effort of trying to make words behave. And this one is just for fun. —WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN: Despite what you see out your back window in Ohio, baseball is among us, spring training is here and hope springs eternal in every big league camp. […]
OBSERVATIONS: Meeting New Cigar-Smoking Faces
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave and while I was sunning myself in the Caribbean the wacky world went on but I was unaware of any of it. —TALKIN’ BASEBALL: There was one area on the mammoth Holland America Nieu Statendam for we sinners who smoked — aft of the boat near […]
McCoy: Why Call THAT Technical???
By Hal McCoy As a professional journalist it behooves me to be impartial when I cover the Cincinnati Reds and the University of Dayton Flyers. With the Reds I have done that for more than 50 years and my impartiality wasn’t always appreciated. Former owner Marge Schott banned me from the media dining room three […]
McCoy: UD Flyers Score TKO Over Davidson
By Hal McCoy Dayton, OH. — The negative part of the University of Dayton basketball team’s split personality surrfaced again Tuesday night. Their modus operandi is to be very, very good (Against Saint Louis last Friday) or very, very bad (Against St. Bonaventure last Tuesday). The Flyers would perplex Sigmund Freud with their floor fluxuations. […]
OBSERVATIONS: Did the Reds Do Enough to Contend?
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave and, no, my laptop is not going on the cruise with me next week. I fear that after a couple of days at the blackjack table I might havve to hock it. But this UO is extra-long to make up for the upcoming week’s hiatus. —DID […]
OBSERVATIONS: Some ‘Fourth Ballot’ Head Scratchers
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, just five days away from a Caribbean cruise and 12 days until pitchers catchers and writers report to spring training. . .and I’m not sure whch excites me more. —NOT ONE AND DONE: The mystery of the one miscreant who didn’t include Ichiro on his Hall […]
McCoy: UD Flyers Bounce Back To Beat Billikens
By Hal McCoy St. Louis, MO. — All season long, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde accompanied the University of Dayton basketball team on its road trips. And it was the nasty Mr. Hyde on the floor Tuesday night when the Flyers were decapitated during their misadventure at St. Bonaventur, a 22-point loss. Dr. Jekyll and […]
OBSERVATIONS: Why Not Trevor Bauer?
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, anxiously awaiting the Wright State University ‘First Pitch’ baseball dinner Friday night because one of my favorite baseball people, Clint Hurdle, is the keynote speaker. —TRACING TREVOR: MLB teams constantly search for starting pitchers and throw cash in bundles bigger than hay bales to any guy […]