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Tom Archdeacon

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Award-winning columnist Tom Archdeacon is an old-school storyteller who writes about sports, the city, southwest Ohio and anything else that catches his fancy… or yours.

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Longtime hoops assistant shaped great area talents

9:11 PM Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Jim Brown laughed when he told the story about his longtime assistant basketball coach — 81-year-old Jim Ehler — who a few years back was chiding the Northmont High team, which hadn’t played well:

“He had the guys in the locker room and he was going on and on and finally he says, ‘The trouble with you guys is you spend too much time on the skirts.

Jefferson player's mentors keep promise to late father

10:58 PM Saturday, February 6, 2010

JEFFERSON TWP. — He had just gotten home from school and begun his homework at the kitchen table when the phone call came from Kettering Hospital.

UD's Coach Gregory spars, inspires

10:10 PM Saturday, February 6, 2010

The Dayton Flyers had returned from the court to their temporary dressing quarters in UD Arena for their final pregame instructions.

Archdeacon: Math, hoops mix loudly at UD Arena

12:24 AM Thursday, February 4, 2010

The University of Dayton women’s basketball team tried to prepare.

“We knew it was gonna be loud, so all week in practice we had really loud music playing,” said senior forward Kendel Ross.

CSU’s Cole Prophet stands tall on court

9:35 PM Tuesday, February 2, 2010

As he was watching the Sandusky High School basketball team warm up before a game, the referee thought he spotted a problem.

Dayton hoops legend Anderson gets another shot at redemption

7:07 PM Saturday, January 30, 2010

DAYTON — The most unbelievable basketball performance I’ve seen in a long, long time didn’t come in some college hoops arena or up in the NBA with LeBron and his cohorts.

For Dayton artist, horse racing isn't just a diversion

8:31 PM Wednesday, January 27, 2010

The daily routine for Mike Elsass goes something like this:

Before dawn, he slips one of his trademark, ribbed-in-the-front, paint-splattered, white tuxedo shirts over his Rick Majerus-like girth — “I get those shirts for four bucks at Big and Fatties,” he chuckled before clarifying, “Herle’s (Big and Tall)” — and then he heads to his Front Street studio.

Schedule toughens RedHawks

11:23 AM Sunday, January 24, 2010

OXFORD — Kenny Hayes’ brash response made fellow Miami RedHawk Nate Winbush snort with surprise.

“I’m just being serious,” Hayes, the senior guard from Northmont High, said as he flashed a look at his younger teammate.

Hard work puts UD soccer star on path to pro career

9:45 PM Saturday, January 23, 2010

To understand the panic he felt that day on the University of Dayton campus — the sense that all had been lost — you need to know how he ended up there in the first place.

UD star follows dream from Ghana to pro soccer league

9:30 PM Saturday, January 23, 2010

It was as if Kenny Rogers showed up at the Kennedy Union snack bar on the University of Dayton campus as a 22-year-old African wearing a black watch cap, studs in his ears and an infectious smile.