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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Friday, 29 January 2021 / Published in Features, Home Features, UD, UD Feature

McCoy: UD’s Grant Calls Crutcher One Of The Best Flyers…Ever!

When he arrived at Dayton from Memphis he was so quiet no one noticed him.  Now what Jalen Crutcher does with the basketball and the game on the line screams for national attention. Hal McCoy features the most valuable Flyer in today's Press Pros.
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Wednesday, 27 January 2021 / Published in UD, UD Feature

McCOY: UD Flyers Upset Saint Louis, 76-71

Jalen Crutcher scores 14 points in the final four minutes as the Flyers pull a surprise on Saint Louis, playing its first game in 34 days after COVID-19 put the program on pause in December 23 when the Billikens were 7-1. Hal McCoy writes.
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Saturday, 23 January 2021 / Published in Features, Home Features, UD, UD Feature

McCOY: VCU Takes UD’s Flyers To The Wood Shed, 66-43

The Flyers were stripped naked by Virginia Commonwealth, 66-43. It was a street mauling and mugging. VCU brought brass knuckles and UD brought mittens.
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Sunday, 17 January 2021 / Published in Features, Home Features, UD, UD Feature

McCoy: Blazing Starts Carries UD Past George Washington, 67-54

A hot start by the offense - and a sizzling first half by Jalen Crutcher - boosted the Flyers to a Sunday win over George Washington. Hal McCoy writes for Monday's Press Pros.
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Thursday, 14 January 2021 / Published in Features, Home Features, UD, UD Feature

McCoy: UD Opts Out Of Spring PFL Football Games

UD reverses course, cancels plans for spring football in 2021. Why? And what's next? Hal McCoy writes.