http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/ en-us tarchdeacon@coxohio.com 2008-07-17T14:11:39-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/entries/2008/07/17/blog_racism_isnt_why_bonds_is.html With the All star game finally over, we begin the second half of the Major League baseball season with Barry Bonds on the outside of the game looking in. An All Star just last season and arguably the greatest home... 5321303@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/ 2008-07-17T14:11:39-05:00 tarchdeacon@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/entries/2008/07/14/blog_no_love_from_buckeye_fans.html My wife and I go down to Miami almost every year. I lived there for many years, wrote sports there and still have a lot of friends and fond memories there. I love the place. On our last visit, I... 5232303@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/ 2008-07-14T12:29:43-05:00 tarchdeacon@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/entries/2008/07/09/blog_top_ten_sports_spectacles.html To rouse myself from the slumberous prospect of the Dayton Flyers opening their home schedule this season with Wofford, Delaware State, Bethune Cookman, Mercer and Troy University — none with a name much less a winning record last season —... 5138903@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/ 2008-07-09T14:43:20-05:00 tarchdeacon@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/entries/2008/07/06/blog_shes_no_benedict_arnold_i.html People who should know better — and by that I especially mean Anne Donovan, the coach of the U.S. women’s Olympic basketball team — are painting Becky Hammon as Benedict Arnold in sneakers and shorts. Next thing you know some... 5069503@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/ 2008-07-06T21:16:49-05:00 tarchdeacon@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/entries/2008/07/04/blog_athletes_and_the_stars_st.html At baseball parks across the country today, at the U.S. Olympic Trials — both track and field in Eugene, Oregon and swimming in Omaha, Neb. — at race tracks, soccer fields and maybe a golf tournament or two, American flags... 5051303@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/ 2008-07-04T14:01:39-05:00 tarchdeacon@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/entries/2008/07/02/blog_a_perfect_fit_for_paul_bi.html Paul Biancardi was reflecting on the past 28 months and the self-defining journey he’s been on. It was March of 2006 when he left his head coaching position at Wright State — a basketball job he had waited much of... 4998203@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/ 2008-07-02T07:56:59-05:00 tarchdeacon@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/entries/2008/06/27/blog_im_not_so_sure_oj_mayo_wi.html Will O.J. Mayo be a great NBA player? I’m not so sure he will, but almost everybody else seems to think so. Especially the pundits and talk-show callers in the Twin Cities, today, who are lamenting the Minnesota Timberwolves’ late... 4916103@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/ 2008-06-27T16:02:13-05:00 tarchdeacon@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/entries/2008/06/23/blog_a_redd_right_and_gold_oly.html Just a couple of hours ago, USA Basketball announced its team for the Beijing Olympic Games, the stage where anything less than a gold medal for the U.S. hoopsters will be perceived — and rightly so — as a failure.... 4800503@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/ 2008-06-23T14:32:34-05:00 tarchdeacon@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/entries/2008/06/18/blog_ohios_top_ten_sports_town.html Here’s my list of Ohio’s Top Ten Sports Towns. I tried to consider the number of marque teams and events the place has, the success both the teams and the hometown athletes have enjoyed, the attendance and community support for... 4705603@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/ 2008-06-18T16:18:32-05:00 tarchdeacon@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/entries/2008/06/16/blog_a_florida_gator_even_buck.html Here’s a guy who has turned his Heisman Trophy award into a real vehicle — and by that I’d don’t mean a stretch limo filled with girls for a club-to-club cruise of The Flats and downtown Cleveland. Not that there’s... 4637703@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/ 2008-06-16T14:17:58-05:00 tarchdeacon@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/entries/2008/06/13/blog_creeks_masterson_king_of.html Mark and Judy Masterson are glad their son is making his own history rather than having it written for him. Their 23-year-old boy, Justin — a Beavercreek High grad and the Boston Red Sox rookie pitcher who’ll start tonight against... 4585603@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/ 2008-06-13T07:49:22-05:00 tarchdeacon@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/entries/2008/06/11/blog_newble_takes_on_china_nik.html Everyone is talking about Los Angeles Lakers backup players Sasha Vujacic and Jordan Farmar and the series-changing contributions they made coming off the bench against Boston in Game Three of the NBA Finals, Tuesday night. Thanks to Vujacic’s 20 points... 4549203@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/ 2008-06-11T21:15:42-05:00 tarchdeacon@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/entries/2008/06/09/blog_the_guys_got_a_bandanna_a.html He was a well-known Dayton athlete who was shot by some guy one night on the West Side. He survived and soon after I went to talk to him and asked why he thought he got shot. “The guy’s got... 4472003@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/ 2008-06-09T11:21:42-05:00 tarchdeacon@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/entries/2008/06/03/blog_reds_griffey_wright_state.html Here are some thoughts on Ken Griffey Jr. and Wright State’s Bob Grant — a guy who hits home runs and a guy who might enjoy some home-field advantage: — on GRANT: — Although the decision on who will be... 4326403@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/ 2008-06-03T14:17:22-05:00 tarchdeacon@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/entries/2008/06/02/blog_jay_bruce_diaper_dandy.html For all the memories Jay Bruce has made swinging a bat — especially this past week with the Cincinnati Reds — here’s one he can’t quite remember. “They tell me it’s true,” he said with a laugh as he stood... 4292903@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/ 2008-06-02T11:28:28-05:00 tarchdeacon@coxohio.com