http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/ en-us tarchdeacon@coxohio.com 2010-02-07T12:15:16-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/entries/2010/02/07/ud_flyers_knock_them_suckas_ou.html I know Chris Wright won the game’s MVP award after Dayton dismantled Xavier, 90-65, Saturday at UD Arena — and with 17 points, nine rebounds and three blocked shots he deserved it — — but I’d give the honor to... 16593303@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/ 2010-02-07T12:15:16-05:00 tarchdeacon@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/entries/2010/02/05/a_bear_of_a_super_bowl_story.html Over the years, I’ve covered some 30 Super Bowls. Here’s one story I won’t forget: I was headed to one of those cattle-call press conferences that precedes the game. In this case, some 1,500 media types were descending on about... 16577403@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/ 2010-02-05T07:41:31-05:00 tarchdeacon@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/entries/2010/02/04/ud_vs_xavier_cash_replaces_con.html Just as Justine Raterman was about to shoot a free throw in the first half of the Dayton Flyers women’s game with Charlotte Wednesday, here comes a piece of gold confetti — about the size of an open matchbook —... 16567703@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/ 2010-02-04T12:10:26-05:00 tarchdeacon@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/entries/2010/01/31/dwight_anderson_a_video_and_a.html It was 1.a.m. a few nights ago and Cliff Pierce couldn’t sleep. With the temperature in the teens, he started thinking about Dwight Anderson. Prep hoops rivals in the late 1970s, they live very different lives now. Pierce and... 16522303@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/ 2010-01-31T07:49:13-05:00 tarchdeacon@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/entries/2010/01/29/preachin_the_gospel_of_the_sai.html To get an idea just how the Super Bowl-bound Saints have captured the heart of New Orleans, here’s a picture my friend Kim McLendon Strother sent me of the priest at the city’s famed St. Louis Cathedral following Mass... 16515203@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/ 2010-01-29T17:22:47-05:00 tarchdeacon@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/entries/2010/01/26/matt_liddy_heart_attack_or_bro.html I know they’re saying Matt Liddy died of a heart attack, but I’m wondering if it wasn’t a little bit of a broken heart, too. Liddy Liddy — the longest tenured person in the Wright State athletics department, the most... 16473403@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/ 2010-01-26T15:12:12-05:00 tarchdeacon@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/entries/2010/01/25/the_miami_redhawks_super_bowl.html Miami University’s Cradle of Coaches’ reputation is being reinforced in super fashion right now. The New Orleans Saints — who will be playing in the franchise’s first Super Bowl ever when they face the Indianapolis Colts in Super Bowl XLIV... 16454903@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/ 2010-01-25T10:27:32-05:00 tarchdeacon@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/entries/2010/01/24/lackadaisical_wins_early_dont.html OXFORD — Kenny Hayes’ brash response made fellow Miami RedHawk Nate Winbush — sitting next to him — snort with surprise. “I’m just being serious,” Hayes, the senior guard from Northmont High, said as he flashed a look at his... 16451503@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/ 2010-01-24T11:32:43-05:00 tarchdeacon@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/entries/2010/01/20/are_you_kidding_who_likes_play.html Karl Hobbs looked at me like I was from Mars. We were in a small, side dressing room in the inner reaches of UD Arena Wednesday night — his team had just been out-rebounded, had shot just 47.1 percent from... 16416703@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/ 2010-01-20T23:56:25-05:00 tarchdeacon@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/entries/2010/01/18/dayton_and_xavier_ought_to_sha.html A lot of Dayton Flyers folks are saying things will be different when UD meets Xavier the next time — Feb. 6 — at UD Arena. I hope they are right on one point: I think it would be a... 16382803@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/ 2010-01-18T11:06:42-05:00 tarchdeacon@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/entries/2010/01/16/first_lebron_then_the_dayton_f.html CINCINNATI — Brian Gregory said the streak “was never discussed, never talked about” in the days leading up to the game. “What happens in the past doesn’t effect these particular 40 minutes,” the Dayton Flyers coach said Saturday as he... 16370103@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/ 2010-01-16T15:30:36-05:00 tarchdeacon@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/entries/2010/01/15/predictions_for_jim_place_and.html Here are two predictions — based purely on speculation on my part —involving high-profile sports figures on the Miami Valley prep scene. Jim Place — I think Jim Place, a guy as classy and stand-up as you’ll find anywhere in... 16358803@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/ 2010-01-15T13:03:04-05:00 tarchdeacon@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/entries/2010/01/14/csu_player_the_news_just_keeps.html Central State football player Tevlin Petit-Frere has just learned that his aunt and two cousins were killed in the earthquake in Haiti and he said another 50-some family members — including his grandmother — are unaccounted for. “We can’t get... 16344003@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/ 2010-01-14T12:12:52-05:00 tarchdeacon@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/entries/2010/01/14/predictions_for_two_high_profi.html Here are two predictions — based purely on speculation on my part — involving high-profile sports figures on the Miami Valley prep scene. Jim Place — I think Jim Place, a guy as classy and stand-up as you’ll find anywhere... 16340803@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/ 2010-01-14T08:57:57-05:00 tarchdeacon@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/entries/2010/01/13/haitian_earthquake_devastates.html Tevlin Petit-Frere had just stepped into a Haitian grocery store in Miami to get some bottled water for his mother and he said “everyone in the store was crying.” That’s how the Central State football player — a day away... 16337203@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/ 2010-01-13T19:22:32-05:00 tarchdeacon@coxohio.com