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.
After a shocking upset loss at Richmond last Saturday, the question of the day was, 'Will the Dayton Flyers bounce back Tuesday against George Washington and will DaRon Holmes II shake off a shaky performance?' And the answer was yes and yes as UD buried George Washington, 83-61, and Holmes dominated with a double-double, 25 points and 12 rebounds.
The University of Dayton Flyers carted a 13-game winning streak, a 6-0 Atlantic 10 record and a No. 16 AP ranking into the University of Richmond's Robins Center Saturday were not impressed with the Flyers and administered a 69-64 upset, extending their winning streak to 10 straight and grabbing first place away from the Flyers.
The University of Dayton basketball team had lost seven of its last 10 games to LaSalle in Tom Gola Arena, good teams losing to bad teams, so it was with trepidation that the Flyers trudged into Gola Arena Tuesday night. But this time they took care of a business, a 66-54 win that was their 13th straight and lifted their record to 16-2, 6-0 in the Atlantic 10, good for first place.
