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 0-and-6 start in the Pioneer Football League, the University of Dayton Flyers finished the season on the upbeat with back-to-back big wins, first a 35-6 win at home last week against Marist and then a 45-14 beatdown of the potent offense of Davidson in the final game of 100-year-old Richardson Field.
After playing well but losing a close game at Northwestern, the University of Dayton basketball team plays three games in four days in the Charleston Classic, beginning Thursday against LSU, with a chance to grab a couple of top tier wins that will impress the NCAA selection committee when it comes time to pick at-large tournament teams.