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 took a trip to Olean, N.Y. for a visit to tiny St. Bonaventure (enrollment, 1,800) and the Bonnies played like giants to hand UD another road loss, 68-59, dropping Dayton to 7-4 in Atlantic 10 play. Olean, N.Y. — Another road game, another clunker, another sad trip home for the
The University of Dayton Flyers played 11 games with one arm tied behind their backs with guards Malachi Smith and Kobe Elvis on the injured list. But Smith is back and Elvis could be back when the Flyers visit George Washington Saturday in the nation's capital, tied for the Atlantic 10 lead at 5-and-1. Hal McCoy writes Flyer Basketball.