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.
The University of Dayton basketball team led the entire way against VCU Friday night in UD Arena. . .until the final minute. The Flyers committed a pair of late game turnovers and the Rams turned them into a winning basket with 15 seconds left, a 63-62 loss that was UD's first in the Atlantic 10 after a 3-and-0 start. Hal McCoy write UD Flyer Basketball.
The UD Flyers buried St. Joseph's, 76-56, Wednesday night in UD Arena for their sixth straight win and improved to 3-and-0 in the Atlantic 10 Conference and it all comes down to unselfish players who have shied away from the 'me, me, me' concept by giving credit to their teammates. Hal McCoy writes the UD Flyers.
Despite going 11 1/2 minutes without a field goal to start the second half, the Dayton Flyers rebounded to record a 69-55 Atlantic 10 victory over defending champion Davidson on the road, with DaRon (Deuce) Holmes II setting a career best with 32 points and recording another double-double with 10 rebounds. Hal McCoy writes Flyer Basketball.