McCoy: Flyers Fall Flat Against Bonnies
By Hal McCoy Olean, NY — The Road Ogre once again grabbed the University of Dayton basketball team by the throat and choked the life out of it. St. Bonaventure, losers of three straight games, annihilated the Flyers Tuesday night in the Reilly Center, 75-53. That is no typographical error —Seventy-five to Fifty-three. Former UD […]
OBSERVATIONS: ‘All The Lies About Babe Ruth Are True’ — Teammate Waite Hoyt
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, enjoying the 30-degree heat wave and rummaging through the cupboards for my suntan lotion. —RUTHIAN TALES: In the last episode, UD point guard Malachi Smith talked about not reading any books when he promised he would. How about Babe Ruth? He claimed the only book he […]
OBSERVATIONS: What’s In A Reds’ Nickname?
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave counting down the days on my fingers and my toes and Nadine’s fingers and toes until spring training. —WHAT’S IN A (NICK)NAME: Somebody asked who was the player Pete Rose nicknamed ‘Eye Chart.’ I vaguely remembler him doing that, but the player’s name escapes me. There […]
McCoy: UD Flyers Build Big Lead, Then Hold Off Saint Joseph’s
By Hal McCoy Dayton, OH — There were 18 credentials issued for NBA scouts for Friday’s Saint Joseph’s-Dayton basketball game in always raucous, always filled UD Arena. They ostensibly came to see Xzayvier Brown, whose parents obviously tried to use every seldom-used consonant in his first name. And maybe they were there to check out […]
OBSERVATIONS: Reds Snubbed In Player Rankings
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave before departing for the Agonis Club to listen to bracketologist Joe Lunardi talk about the up-down-and-around college basketball scene. —THE BIG SNUB: Did you know that Vincent Van Gogh sold only one painting in his lifetime? If Van Gogh played professional baseball, he’d play for the […]
McCoy: UD Posts Blue Collar, Blue Chip Win At Duquesne
By Hal McCoy Pittsburgh, PA — Somebody once said, “Take the high road, the view is better.” So far this season, the Flyers traveled the low road when they visited Atlantic-10 opponents and the view was uglier than a waste dump. That all changed with a vengeance Tuesday night against Duquesne in the UPMC Cooper […]
OBSERVATIONS: UD’s Grant Waxes Eloquently On Flyers
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, breaking in a new heater as I pace the room awating the Ohio State-Notre Dame game — and it is No-tra Dame, not Norter Dame. —IT IS SPELLED T-E-A-M: After the University of Dayton basketball team lost three straight Atlantic-10 games, social media was a conflagration […]
McCoy: UD’s L’Etang, Smith Combine on Final Play in OT To Beat Loyola
By Hal McCoy Dayton, OH — For the University of Dayton Flyers, it was ‘Vive La France’ Saturday afternoon in UD Arena, with a mixture of The Bronx. Amael L’etang, UD’s 7-foot-1 freshman human Eiffel Tower, scored the biggest basket of his fledgling career and the biggest basket of the season for Dayton. L’etang took […]
OBSERVATIONS: An ‘Accidental’ Uecker Homer
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave before heading to UD Arena this afternoon to see if the Dayton Flyers can locate their lost mojo. —A HOMER, UECKER STYLE: During his six years as a player, Bob Uecker hit only 14 home runs. One, though, was noteworthy. It was off Sandy Koufax and […]