Sports Stories for November 2009
Stories for Monday, November 30
Flyers defense not where it needs to be
Pat Kennedy has been coaching for 30 years and had a few signature wins during earlier stints at DePaul and Florida State. And it’s no surprise the veteran coach was peeved his upset-minded team let one get away during his current gig at Towson.The Tigers had Dayton down 18 points ...
Raiders must change focus to league games
FAIRBORN — Athletes are always asked to forget the game just past and concentrate on the game coming up, and that’s exactly what the Wright State Raiders will have to do beginning today, even though senior guard Todd Brown said, “We’ll be talking about this one at the end of ...
Stories for Sunday, November 29
Cincinnati native in main UFC event
Returning from a knee injury and headlining an event for the first time, Cincinnati native Matt Hamill meets fellow up-and-comer Jon Jones in the main event of the latest Ultimate Fighting Championship event on Saturday.The light heavyweight contest headlines the Ultimate Fighter 10 Finale, which also features the grand finale ...
Stories for Saturday, November 28
Bowling insider: Gohagan delivers in the clutch
George Gohagan III knew he was in trouble the minute he let go of the ball.“I threw it pretty bad — I knew it off my hand,” Gohagan said. “And I was working on a four- or five-bagger.”But the Big Four Split — the 4-6-7-10 — he couldn’t believe his ...
More than 400,000 hunters to take aim as deer gun season opens
With the annual deer gun season opening Monday, Nov. 30, a half-hour before sunrise, there is the possibility Ohio hunters will take a record number of whitetails again this season.Last year, the record was broken when they took 252,017 deer for the whole season. Gun week’s portion of that total ...
Stories for Thursday, November 26
Raiders ready for Northeastern rematch
FAIRBORN — The Wright State men’s basketball team had an early Thanksgiving Day practice Thursday, Nov. 26, then boarded a bus to the airport. They had Thanksgiving dinner at their hotel in Boston.Today, they have a practice at Northeastern’s Matthews Arena, where they will meet the Huskies at 2 p.m. ...
Flyers look like they're missing Charles Little
Charles Little may not have had that big an impact statistically as a rebounder, but his presence sure is being missed at Dayton this year.The 6-foot-6, 245-pound power forward was always one of the strongest players on the floor, and opponents were required to put a physical player on him ...
Wall leads Wildcats to OT win
CANCUN, Mexico — Freshman sensation John Wall scored a season-best 23 points, including clutch shots in the final minute that sent the game to overtime, and No. 5 Kentucky closed with an eight-point run for a 73-65 victory over gritty Stanford on Wednesday night in the championship game of the ...
Stories for Wednesday, November 25
Four-time city golf champion Wood dies
Betty Lee Boren Wood, a four-time Dayton Women’s Golf Association champion, died Tuesday, Nov. 24, at the home of her daughter in Salt Lake City, Utah. She was 87. Mrs. Wood won three straight DWGA titles from 1943-45, retired from competition for three years and won a fourth championship in ...
After 2 heart surgeries, CSU center back in game
WILBERFORCE — After more than a year and a half away from basketball — a period of forced exile during which all those Division I schools that had been wooing him suddenly turned their backs, a time when many other folks wondered if he was even going to live — ...
Stories for Tuesday, November 24
Commentary: Mauer happy to play in Minnesota ... for now
A Minneapolis Star-Tribune reporter noted in a story following Joe Mauer’s election as the American League’s Most Valuable Player that it took the national media “fewer than five minutes” to start asking him about his place in Minnesota.“I knew I’d probably run into a question like that,” Mauer said on ...
A vote for McCoy to strike the Heisman Trophy pose
In most years I look forward to the Heisman Trophy ceremony for three reasons:• To see which player just got jinxed for his bowl game.• To see which player’s NFL career just nose-dived.• To finally put an end to the hype that grinds on for weeks leading up to the ...
Stories for Monday, November 23
Despite losses, Flyers are better this year
The Dayton Flyers found out again what life is like among the upper-tier of the BCS conferences, and it’s not for the meek and mild.They’re now 7-4 against teams from the six power conferences in the last three seasons, and those games, it should be noted, haven’t been against South ...
Two games on tap for improving Raiders
FAIRBORN — What’s up for the Raiders this week as they prepare for Central Michigan on Tuesday, Nov. 24, and a game at Northeastern on Saturday?For one thing, the first game is free to anyone wearing any WSU gear. Just pick up tickets at the gate. The student athletic council ...
Stories for Sunday, November 22
Despite loss, fighter Tito Ortiz far from retirement
LAS VEGAS — Whether they admit it or not, Tito Ortiz is a big reason most fans found the sport of mixed martial arts.Whether it’s real adoration or just loving to hate the 34-year-old fighter, Ortiz has remained one of the biggest stars in MMA for more than a decade.This ...
Commentary: Michigan, Notre Dame excuses growing old
Excuses I’m hearing for the demise of both Michigan and Notre Dame’s football programs are getting a little worn. Blaming former UM coach Lloyd Carr for Michigan’s two straight losing seasons is a bit much.The excuse is Michigan’s program was on the recruiting downturn. He would eventually have a losing ...
Kettering’s Hatcher wins bowling regional title
Brian Hatcher hoped he was wrong.“I’m 29, and I was starting to feel like my best bowling years were behind me,” he said. “It was really frustrating.”Hatcher had been competing in PBA Regional events for almost a decade, and he spent a year on the tour. But he had never ...
Soccer saga makes the case for instant replay
Given my ancestry, it occurred to me to get worked into a lather about Ireland being kept out of the World Cup because a French player touched a soccer ball with his hand a second before the decisive goal.Instead, I just kind of laughed, especially when Ireland actually filed a ...
Sports Editor: Tressel puts his stamp on OSU win
If you’re going to attend one Gems game this season, the Thanksgiving Eve bash against another hockey team might be the one. It’s Dollar Beer Night! This means fans will see how many cups of bad tap beer they can drink. Then they might try to storm the ice. The ...
Stories for Saturday, November 21
UConn stabbing hits Miami Valley native hard
No handbook prepares a young athlete for the violent death of a teammate. And who would have seen anything like this coming in Storrs, Conn., a place with a definite “middle of nowhere” feel?“We were shocked, especially my mom,” said University of Connecticut redshirt freshman linebacker Jory Johnson. “She had ...
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