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.
DaRon Holmes II hurt himself on the first play of the game and didn't return until midway through the first half and Toumani Camara was foul-happy and sat for 26 of the game's 40 minutes, but Dayton's Flyers still nearly pulled out a win against Saint Louis Friday night before falling, 65-61 in Chaifetz Arena. Hal McCoy write Fly Basketball.
After a debilitating home loss to George Mason Saturday, the University of Dayton Flyers rebounded with a vengeance Tuesday night in UD Arena with a 77-53 demolition of La Salle, clinching a double bye directly into the quarterfinals of the Atlantic 10 Conference championship tournament in Brooklyn. Hal McCoy writes Flyer basketball.
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.