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 bounced back from the devastating loss to VCU by holding off Davidson Tuesday night, 68-61, in UD Arena, then coach Anthony Grant strongly criticized a small segment of the Flyer Faithful for what they said on social media about some of the players. Hal McCoy writes Flyer Basketball.
The University of Dayton basketball team led the entire way against VCU Friday night in UD Arena. . .until the final minute. The Flyers committed a pair of late game turnovers and the Rams turned them into a winning basket with 15 seconds left, a 63-62 loss that was UD's first in the Atlantic 10 after a 3-and-0 start. Hal McCoy write UD Flyer Basketball.
