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.
UD's Flyers left their game in Richmond, Va. with an 82-52 win over Virginia Commonwealth on Wednesday and absorbed a critical 72-61 defeat in St. Louis to the Saint Louis Billikens, who packed in their defense to stop big mean DaRon Holmes II and Toumani Camara, leaving Kobe Elvis to do the bulk of the scoring and he responded with 20 points. Hal McCoy writes for Saturday's Press Pros.
Fordham University's basketball team came to UD Arena with blood in it eyes, smarting from 15 straight losses on UD's floor and hadn't won a game in Dayton since 1953. But the Flyers held off the Rams for a 68-61 victory, pushing their Atlantic 10 record to 5-2. Read Hal McCoy in Sunday's Press Pros.
