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.
Ohio State scores 11 runs in the first two innings, but has to hold off Wright State after the Raiders barged back to tie it. forcing the Buckeyes to score an unearned run in the eighth inning to score a 14-13 non-league victory. Henry Kaczmar (pictured) scored the go-ahead run on Matthew Graveline’s sacrifice fly.
The University of Dayton Flyers were seemingly down and doomed, trailing Nevada by 17 points with seven minutes left in their first round NCAA tournament game, but they made it an impossible dream with a 17-point run and a 24-4 finish to snag a 63-60 win to move into a second round game against No. 2 seed Arizona on Saturday.
Even though the University of Dayton Flyers laid an unhatched egg in the Atlantic 10 tournament, losing their first game to Duquesne - the eventual tournament champion - the NCAA was impressed enough with UD's overall accomplishments and invited them as a No. 7 seed to the March Madness party with a game Thursday in Salt Lake City against Nevada.