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.
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Thursday, 27 February 2025 / Published in Features, UD

McCoy: UD Flyers Challenge ‘Murphy’s Law’

The University of Dayton basketball team fell behind Rhode Island by 10 points in the first half, built a 20-point lead in the second half, then had to hold off a furious late charge by the Rams, with the aid of comfort of Nate Santos, to post an 85-77 win.
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Saturday, 22 February 2025 / Published in Features, UD

McCoy: Flyers Wake-Up Call Is Too Late

The University of Dayton Flyers fell behind by 13 points with 10 /12 minutes left, then staged a rally that drew them to within two points four times, but they couldn't get close and lost an Atlantic 10 Conference battle for third place to Loyola Chicago, 76-72.
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Wednesday, 05 February 2025 / Published in Features, UD, UD Feature

McCoy: UD Flyers Score A Technical Knockout

The University of Dayton basketball team struggled mightily offensively Tuesday night in UD Arena against an inferior Davidson College, but two technical fouls against Davidson. one in the final 50 seconds that led to five UD points in two seconds, helped the Flyers to a 69-63 Atlantic 10 victory.
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Saturday, 01 February 2025 / Published in Features, UD

McCoy: Up And Down Flyers Are Up In St. Louis

After an atrocious 22-point emasculation at St. Bonaventure, the University of Dayton Flyers walked into Chaifetz Arena, where Saint Louis was 11-1 this season, and whipped the Billikens, 71-63, behind Javon Bennett's career-best 19 points. Read Hal McCoy......
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Tuesday, 28 January 2025 / Published in Features, UD

McCoy: St. Bonaventure Destroys UD, 75-53

It is no fun adventure playing at St. Bonaventure and the University of Dayton basketball team found it out in a big, bad way Tuesday night, losing to the Bonnies, 75-53, under a barrage of three-pointers.