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 […]

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 […]