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 […]
A Tribute To Mr. Baseball, Bob Uecker
By Hal McCoy Baseball lost the biggest slice of humor it ever had this week. Mr. Baseball passed away. And every baseball fans knows who Mr. Baseball was. It’s Bob Uecker, baseball’s all-time best deadpan humorist, a guy whose humor was always self-deprecating. He was 90 years old, but 20 years old in his baseball-shaped […]
UD Flyers Flop And Fall Again
By Hal McCoy Dayton, OH — There is a mystery team wearing University of Dayton basketball team uniforms, impostors one and all. Those weren’t The Real Flyers floating around UD Arena like lost butterflies. Those weren’t The Real Flyers taking proverbial punches to the solar plexus from George Mason on UD’s own Blackburn Court. George […]
Observations: The Week (Weak) Of The Birth Of The DH
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave and in this episode it is all baseball all the time, despite temperatures outside as cold as Bob Gibson’s heart. —OH, LET ME HIT: It’s a Happy Birthday this week to D.H. — and I don’t mean Don Hoak or Dick Howser or Dave Henderson or […]
Some weekend Observations…
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave and there is nothing for me under our Christmas tree so I guess it’s like the song, “I’m getting nuttin’ for Christmas, ‘cause I ain’t been nuttin’ but bad.” —SO HIT ME: Ken Griffey Jr. faced Nolan Ryan numerous times, but he remembers his first time […]
Back-to-Back Observations…
By Hal McCoy UNSOLICITED OBSERVATIONS from The Man Cave, awaiting an answer from Juan Soto about my request for a $1 million gift to the Old Sports Writer’s Fund (Me). —SOLVE ‘EM. SOTO: Now that Juan Soto signed a 15-year $765 million guaranteed non-deferred contract, he should be able to single-handedly lead the New York […]