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.
North Carolina Central came to UD Arena after winning its previous game, 123-67, but it was a mirage because of the opposition, so the University of Dayton Flyers concentrated on not having a letdown after a big win Wednesday at Marquette and scored a 74-55 win over NCCU Saturday afternoon in UD Arena.
The University of Dayton Flyers can't seem to solve the University of Cincinnati basketball puzzle as their 74-62 loss to the Bearcats Tuesday in First Third Arena was UD's 44th loss to the Bearcats in their last 55 meetings. It didn't help the Flyers on this night when they were 2 for 26 on three-point shots.
After a fast start and a 12-point first-half lead, Dayton’s Flyers took a breather and permitted UMBC to claw back and take the second-half lead before UD, behind Javon Bennett, barged back to win. Dayton, OH — Dick Vitale calls them cupcakes — lower-tier college basketball teams that are brought into the arenas of major