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.
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Monday, 22 January 2024 / Published in Features, UD

McCoy: UD Hits The Road On 12-Game Streak

With a 15-2 record and tied for the Atlantic 10 Conference lead with a 5-0 record, the University of Dayton basketball team tries Tuesday to avoid the dangers of a trap game in the dinky LaSalle game. The Explorers are 1-4 in the A-10 and are on a four-game losing streak.
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Sunday, 21 January 2024 / Published in Features, UD, UD Feature

McCoy: UD Makes Miller’s Return Miserable

Dayton welcomed home an old friend, and a new advesary in Rhode Island coach, Archie Miller, Saturday...and reminded him and the struggling Rams of better times, and how things 'used' to be! Koby Brea, (pictured) had a big day from three-point range. Read Hal McCoy.
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Wednesday, 17 January 2024 / Published in Features, Home Features, UD, UD Feature

McCoy: Holmes Takes Charge Again In UD Win

For the second straight game, when DaRon Holmes II saw his team staggering, he took command. After scoring only four points in the first half as his Dayton Flyers fell behind by two points at halftime, Holmes scored 25 in the second half to scorch Saint Louis, 70-65, UD's 11th straight win that lifted its record to 14-2 with a perfect 4-0 in the Atlantic 10.
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Saturday, 13 January 2024 / Published in Features, UD, UD Feature

McCoy: UD’s Holmes II Goes Off For 33

The UD Flyers were strangely underdogs for a game Friday night at Duquesne, but whomever decided that didn't take into consideration what DaRon Holmes II can do and he showed it with 33 points and scored 13 of 15 points during a late-game spree that pushed the Flyers from a 4-point lead to a 14-point lead for a 72-62 win.
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Sunday, 07 January 2024 / Published in Features, Home Features, UD, UD Feature

McCoy: UD Flyers Hold Off UMass, 64-60

In an emotional-packed day, childhood friends Anthony Grant and Frank Martin did battle on the UD Arena floor and Grant led the Flyers from a big first-half lead to holding off Frank Martin's UMass team. The Flyers won their ninth straight, improved to 12-2 (2-0 in the Atlantic 10), then Martin was in tears after the game talking about his relationship with Grant.