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.
With the loss of Jordan Derkack from Tuesday's game at Duquesne, Dayton's Flyers were missing three of their top six players in Derkack, Amaël L'Etang and Malcolm Thomas, but coach Anthony Grant floated his eight remaining scholarships players in and out of the game and walked away with a 71-65 victory.
George Washington University figured it was on its way to a big win over the University of Dayton basketball team Tuesday in UD Arena. The scouting report says, "Stop Javon Bennett and you beat Dayton." Bennett was 0 for 11 in the first half and GW led by five points. Bennett scored 18 points in the second half to win in the Atlantic-10, 79-72. De'Shayne Montgomery slammed home a dunk just after the buzzer, a celebratory shot. (pictured)
With Amaël L’Etang and Malcolm Thomas out with injuries, the University of Dayton basketball team needed somebody to step up for the Flyers’ Atlantic 10 Conference Opener Wednesday at UD Arena against Fordham. And it was Jordan Derkack and Jaiun Simon giving the Flyers a double dose of uplift, leading UD to a 63-56 victory.
Liberty University made a 426-mile bus trip from Lynchburg, Va. to Dayton worthwhile by beating the University of Dayton Flyers, 64-61, Saturday afternoon in UD Arena, concluding Dayton's 33-game winning streak against non-conference opponents in UD Arena, the self-proclaimed Epicenter of College Basketball.