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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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Tuesday, 21 January 2025 / Published in Features, UD, UD Feature

McCoy: UD Posts A Blue Collar, Blue Chip Win

After four straight flat performances, including their narrow escape against Chicago Loyola in UD Arena Saturday, the University of Dayton Flyers put all the pieces together Tuesday night to destroy Duquesne, 82-62, in Pittsburgh, UD's first true road game win of the season. Enoch Cheeks not only hit four threes, he dunked for two en route to 23 points. (pictured)
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Sunday, 19 January 2025 / Published in Features, Home Features, UD, UD Feature

McCoy: L’Etang, Smith Save UD In Overtime, 83-81

With three seconds left in overtime and 3.8 seconds left in a tie game, University of Dayton point guard Malachi Smith launched a half-court pass to 7-foot-1 Amael 'Frenchy' L'Etang and with 0:00.2 on the clock he dropped it into the basket to give the Flyers an 83-81 win over Chicago Loyola, snapping the Flyers' three-game losing streak in Atlantic 10 play.
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Thursday, 16 January 2025 / Published in Features, Home Features, UD, UD Feature

McCoy: UD Flyers Falter And Flop Again

For the third straight game, the heavily-favored University of Dayton basketball team tripped over the half-court line and tripped over the foul line and lost another Atlantic-10 Conference game, dropping the Flyers to 1-3 in league play and the loss to George Mason ended UD's 26-game winning streak in UD Arena.
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Thursday, 09 January 2025 / Published in Features, UD

McCoy: UD Flyers Stumble Again. . .This Time At UMass

For the second straight road game, the heavily-favored Dayton Flyers took a header, this time to UMass, 76-72, when the Minutemen hit 19 of 20 free throws, including two at game's end by Daniel Rivera with 14 seconds left to seal UD's doom, their second straight Atlantic 10 defeat.
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Saturday, 04 January 2025 / Published in Features, UD

McCoy: Thud Goes UD At George Washington

Was it letdown, or just a head full of themselves.  The Flyers went on the road to George Washington and played like Martha...lose 82-62. Read Hal McCoy.
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