OBSERVATIONS: Las Vegas thinks ‘highly’ of the Reds (sort of)
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, so bored this week that I watched the entire UD-Virginia Tech replay on ESPN2, even though I covered the game. And how boring am I? I loved it. —Las Vegas must not be paying close attention to baseball due to the lockout. Who is? MLB-TV has […]
OBSERVATIONS: Jack Armstrong, the All-American tuna boat captain
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, wondering if the University of Dayton Flyers, the Cleveland Browns and the Cincinnati Bengals all can win on the same day (Sunday), but more concerned that all three might lose. —The baseball lockout brings back memories of the 1990 lockout, a 32-day affair that wiped out […]
OBSERVATIONS: Does anybody care about MLB’s lockout?
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, wondering how long it will be before baseball owners and the MLBPA bury the game, because it is already on life support with the fans. —Settle in, folks, this one is going to be a long winter’s nap, a snooze that might last through the spring, […]
UD Flyers playing like Secretariat with fast starts
By Hal McCoy If they put saddles on the University of Dayton’s starting five, they would resemble the iconic thoroughbred Secretariat breaking from the starting gate. Earlier this week, the Flyers broke from the gate with an 18-2 start, burying Alabama State shortly after they took off their pre-game practice shirts. Pretty good, huh? Well, […]
OBSERVATIONS: Is it time for fans to stage their own lockout?
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave after sitting in front of my laptop watching Wright State get it right against Purdue Fort Wayne in the Horizon League opener. —What’s it all about, Alfie, this baseball lockout? It’s about billionaire owners squabbling with multi-millionaire players over, what else, mostly cash, large piles of […]
OBSERVATIONS: Has the sporting world gone mad?
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave wondering how soon baseball owners will slap the locks on the clubhouse doors? —The sports world is absolutely stark-raving bonkers. It is a world full of carpetbaggers and those carpetbags are overstuffed with millions of dollars: —Brian Kelly abandoned his Notre Dame football players, a team […]
UD Flyers nip Belmont to take ESPN Events title
By Hal McCoy The glass slippers still fit Cinderella and right now they are worn by the University of Dayton basketball team. When the Flyers arrived at Disney World for the ESPN Events Invitational, they were thought of as more like Mickey Mouse than Cinderella. They came to the eight-team tournament as the only team […]
UD Flyers shock the basketball world with win over No. 4 Kansas, 74-73
By Hal McCoy It is extremely easy to get ESPN analyst Dickie Vitale excitable, but he was above and beyond Saturday when the University Dayton stunned the basketball world. The Flyers, prohibitive underdogs to Kansas, the No. 4 team in the nation, pulled the unfathomable upset, 74-73, in the ESPN Events Invitational in Orlando, Fla. […]
UD Flyers thaw out in Florida, stun Miami, 76-60
By Hal McCoy Just when it looked as if the University of Dayton basketball team would be in a season-long deep freeze, they went to Florida and thawed out. The Flyers, losers of three straight to mediocre mid-major teams, scored a major upset on Thanksgiving Day in the ESPN Events Invitational Tournament in Orlando, Fla. […]