Sports Stories for June 2012
Stories for Saturday, June 30
Yankees' Jeter moves past Ripken Jr. on all-times hits list
With a leadoff double against the Chicago White Sox on Friday night, Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter (pictured) moved past Cal Ripken Jr. into 13th place on the all-time hits list. Here’s the top 15:Pete Rose4,256 Ty Cobb4,189 Hank Aaron3,771 Stan Musial3,630 Tris Speaker3,514 Carl Yastrzemski3,419 Honus Wagner3,415 Paul Molitor3,319 Eddie ...
Greenville’s Light still giving back after NFL
GREENVILLE — Asked if he was going to miss those Sunday afternoons in the NFL (where, until retiring from the New England Patriots in May, he’d spent the past 11 years as one of the league’s most successful offensive linemen), Matt Light had started to answer when he suddenly heard ...
Stories for Friday, June 29
5 things to watch for today at Kentucky Speedway
The Chase starts now: Starting with the Quaker State 400 there are 10 races left before the 12-driver field is set for the Chase for the Sprint Cup. The top 10 drivers in the current points standings should feel confident. At this point in 2011, nine of the top 10 ...
Commentary: It’s open season on noisy tennis women
At first it seemed like a joke, but it wasn’t April Fool’s Day. And I was awake, so it wasn’t a dream.It was there, in the computer equivalent of black and white: The Women’s Tennis Association is working with tournament officials and the sport’s international governing body to cut down ...
Stories for Thursday, June 28
Fenwick grad helps team win U18 girls title
Mackenize Hamilton, a Lebanon resident and a graduate of Fenwick High School, scored a goal Wednesday to help the Cincinnati Soccer Alliance team (CSA Elite) win the 18-and-under girls championship at the United States Youth Soccer Region II tournament in Saginaw, Mich.CSA Elite defeated the Kolping Kicks SC Schmitt team ...
Stories for Wednesday, June 27
UD-Miami basketball rivalry may end
John Cooper, the new Miami University men’s basketball coach, wants to maintain his team’s rivalry with Dayton — and keep playing Wright State every year, too. But he’s not sure whether those games will fit into his long-term plan. Previous coach Charlie Coles’ philosophy was to play anyone anywhere, which ...
Stories for Monday, June 25
Dutch Lions seek another big upset
washington twp., montgomery county — The Dayton Dutch Lions went about their business as usual last week.Their practice at the Miami Valley School began with some light jogging and progressed with short sprints. It was just a normal day for a team in an improbable situation. The Lions remain in ...
Stories for Sunday, June 24
Secret Cycling has solid showing at Tour d’Burg
Miamisburg — It was a scene women’s cyclists all over Ohio have been familiar with. Team Dayton’s Secret Cycling’s duo of Elaine Schaaf and Erika Howard delivered their usual one-two punch to the field of the Tour d’Burg women’s open class, the grand finale of women’s races on Sunday. Howard ...
Basketball bridges U.S.- North Korea gap
It’s not surprising North Korea didn’t know what to make of Luke Elie and the rest of his American teammates when they first landed in Pyongyang a little over a week ago.According to several sources, they were the first American basketball team to visit North Korea since the bitterly-divisive Korean ...
Commentary: NBA title won’t alter LeBron’s soiled image
If you tune into ESPN’s “SportsCenter,” it was impossible to miss.There was LeBron James, in all his Nike-endorsed glory, sporting the latest T-shirt from Phil Knight’s empire — “Earned not Given.”It’s said if a lie is repeated enough, it becomes truth. What do you call a lie printed on millions ...
Stories for Saturday, June 23
Ex-Dunbar track standout qualifies for Olympic Trials
This is a church story of sorts, except that in this one, Moses doesn’t come down from the mount to deliver a couple of stone tablets chiseled with 10 commandments. Instead, he calls and gives a pep talk and some pointed advice before flying over to London to prepare for ...
College players quick to transfer
John Cooper was named Miami University men’s basketball coach in April and faced the first real crisis in his program just two weeks after taking the job.Freshman guard Brian Sullivan, the team’s leading returning scorer and the MAC’s top 3-point shooter last season, had been recruited by retiring coach Charlie ...
Commentary: Turning off Heat’s reality TV show
The best race at next weekend’s Quaker State 400 at Kentucky Speedway might be for the last parking spot. I’ve talked to fans who tried to attend last year’s race but couldn’t quite catch the action from Interstate 71, which was backed up for miles. Maybe the drivers should start ...
Commentary: Mets pitcher Dickey one worth rooting for
Last week two baseball pitchers made headlines across the country.Roger Clemens was acquitted by a jury after being accused of lying to Congress about his alleged use of performance-enhancing drugs.His innocence legally, however, has not cleared him in the court of public opinion. Speculation that he used steroids and HGH ...
Tour d’Burg gets growth, strong spin
When the first Tour d’Burg hit the streets of Miamisburg eight years ago, Team Dayton race director Doug Deaton didn’t picture what the criterium bicycle races would grow to.The cyclists return to the streets Sunday for the eighth Tour d’Burg with at least nine national champs in the field and ...
Dunbar’s Cole shares glory with his parents
It was a moment he will never forget.“As time was running out, I was out there dribbling the ball and I was feeling the adrenaline rush,” Norris Cole was saying Friday night, a little less than 24 hours after the eyes of much of the world had been on him.“It ...
Stories for Wednesday, June 20
Cole looks to give Heat lift on championship ride
Everybody is talking about the lift Norris Cole gave the Miami Heat against the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 4 of the NBA Finals, but, the truth is, he could carry his team a lot farther than that.When the rookie guard out of Dunbar High School came off the bench ...
Commentary: Clemens verdict not a logical conclusion
I couldn’t help but be a little disappointed that Roger Clemens was found not guilty of charges that he lied under oath about using steroids.I felt the same way when efforts to try Barry Bonds ended in a fuzzy conclusion.And also when Ryan Braun’s positive drug test was overturned on ...
BCS heads reach consensus on playoff plan
CHICAGO — The BCS commissioners reached a consensus on a model four-team seeded playoff that will be presented to the university presidents next week for approval.The commissioners who have been working on reshaping college football's postseason to create the first major college playoff met for four hours and emerged together ...
Stories for Tuesday, June 19
Holley Mangold to appear on HBO show
Here’s a story she’ll tell tonight. It’s from her days playing varsity football for Alter High. “I had this guy shove his hands up under my shoulder pads and go 'Honk! … Honk!’ as soon as the play started,” Holley Mangold said with a grin as she mimicked the guy’s ...
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