Hal McCoy is a former beat writer for the Dayton Daily News (Dayton, Ohio), covering the Cincinnati Reds baseball team. He was honored by the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2002 as the winner of the J. G. Taylor Spink Award, which is awarded annually "for meritorious contributions to baseball writing." He has won 52 Ohio and national writing awards and was the first non-Cincinnati newsperson elected to the Cincinnati Journalists Hall of Fame. He also was inducted into the National Sports Media Association Hall of Fame and the Irish-American Baseball Hall of Fame. He has a stone on Dayton's Walk of Fame and the press box at Dayton's Howell Field is named the Hal McCoy Press Box. McCoy has been the Cincinnati BBWAA Chapter Chair 22 times and was the BBWAA national president in 1997. He is the third writer from the Dayton Daily News to win the J. G. Taylor Spink Award, joining Si Burick (1982) and Ritter Collett (1991). Residing in Englewood, Ohio, McCoy is an honors graduate in journalism from Kent State University.
The University of Dayton Flyers traveled 50 miles down Interstate 75 to play the University of Cincinnati on a 'neutral' court, the Heritage Bank Arena in Downtown Cincinnati and came away with an upset victory as Daron Holmes II went off for 28 points and Kobe Elvis was one step behind with 27 as the Flyers improved to 8-2.
DaRon Holmes II, affectionately known as Deuce because of the II after his name, scored 23 points, snagged 17 rebounds, recorded five dunks and blocked three shots to lead the Flyers to their fourth straight victory and he was given ample help from point guard Kobe Elvis, who shed a shooting slump to add 22 points to Holmes' total as UD lifted its record to 7-2.
After a 'gimme' 30-point win at home against Grambling State and a two-point upset win at Southern Methodist, the 6-2 University of Dayton Flyers entertain UNLV Wednesday night in UD Arena, with a tinge of revenge on their minds after they blew a 10-point halftime lead to the Runnin' Rebels in Las Vegas last season and lost, 60-52.
