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.
Before arriving in UD Arena Saturday night to play the University of Dayton, George Mason University was free throw-challenged, one of the worst in the country, but the Colonials made six straight in the final six seconds to hang a 74-69 defeat on the Flyers, dropping UD two games behind VCU with two to play in the Atlantic 10. Hal McCoy writes Flyer Basketball.
The University of Dayton Flyers, playing better and better down the stretch, purred like a Maserati Wednesday night at the University of Massachusetts, scoring an easy, 72-54, victory, their sixth win in seven games to take hold of second place in the A10 at 11-4, one game behind league-leading VCU. Hal McCoy writes Flyer Basketball.
After Chicago Loyola took the University of Dayton into overtime before losing, 85-81, in UD Arena, the Flyers were poised and ready for the rematch and scored a 65-49 victory with the 'Dayton Dynamite Duo,' DaRon Holmes II and Toumani Camara taking complete and total control. Hal McCoy writes Flyer basketball.
With big wins over Virginia Commonwealth and Saint Louis, the UD Flyers are back in the hunt for an Atlantic 10 championship and visit last-place Loyola Chicago Friday night, realizing it took overtime for them to beat the Ramblers in UD Arena, 85-81, on January 31. Hal McCoy previews what's next for the Flyers in today's Press Pros.
After losing three straight Atlantic 10 road games to mediocre teams, the season looked dead for the Dayton Flyers, but they've bounced back with a win over first place VCU and took away second place from Saint Louis Friday night in UD Arena by scorching the Billikens, 70-56! Hal McCoy writes Flyer basketball.