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Doug Harris is a sports reporter for Cox Media Group Ohio specializing in University of Dayton sports, Ohio State football.
Was encouraged to get into writing in college, always followed DDN sports writing greats Gary Nuhn and Hal McCoy.
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College basketball scoring reaches 60-year low
The caliber of the play in Louisville’s 82-76 win over Michigan in the NCAA tournament final was applauded by many because of the high-powered offenses on display.Given the ever-slowing pace in college basketball, the game also was an anomaly.Overall scoring in 2012-13 was 67.5 points per team, marking four straight ...
Deane invited to U-19 national team trials
Dayton freshman Amber Deane doesn’t plan to suddenly become a player who jacks up shots and tries no-look passes in order to impress the USA basketball staff during her bid to make the U-19 national team this week. She figures she just has to display the fundamentally sound game that ...
Miller applauds rule change that lengthens preseason
The NCAA has started to give college basketball coaches something they’ve felt has been long overdue: more access to their players. The movement began a few years ago with the ability to stage workouts with up to four players from the first day of school until Sept. 15. And beginning ...
Parker earns player of year honors in Germany
Josh Parker didn’t know exactly what he was getting into when he signed to play pro basketball in Germany, but he felt better about his prospects overseas when he learned how much his team would be depending on him. “When I first got there, the coach said he was going ...
Davidson officially joining A-10
The departure of Xavier and Butler to the new Big East was a blow for the Atlantic 10, but commissioner Bernadette McGlade has filled those vacancies with perhaps the two most attractive schools in the A-10 footprint outside of the power conferences. Davidson, the flagship program in the Southern Conference, ...
UD makes home visits with pair of shooting guards
College basketball coaches were able to make home visits with players in the junior class last month, and 6-foot-4 wing J.P. Macura was booked so solid that he had trouble recalling all the schools that made the trip to Minneapolis to huddle with him and his family. “Let’s see, there ...
Kavanaugh reinstated by UD
Matt Kavanaugh couldn’t attend classes at Dayton while being suspended for a year for violating the school’s code of conduct, but that doesn’t mean he didn’t learn a thing or two during his time away. The 6-foot-10, 250-pound center said the disciplinary measures taken by UD taught him some life ...
Flyers ready to go for A-10 softball tourney
Dayton softball coach Cara LaPlaca has checked off one goal of turning the Flyers into regular participants in the six-team Atlantic 10 tournament. Her next objective is to put an end to a history of early exits. The sixth-seeded Flyers will play in the double-elimination event for the second time ...
Miller sets high bar in recruiting
Dayton basketball coach Archie Miller worked his way up the ranks mainly through stops at major colleges. But his first full-time assistant job came at Western Kentucky, and what he learned in his lone season there did more to shape his recruiting philosophy than anything he picked up at those ...
UD softball team making strides
Cara LaPlaca knew what she was getting into when she was hired as Dayton women’s softball coach in 2008. The Flyers had plummeted so far in the Atlantic 10 that they couldn’t see the top teams in the conference without a Hubble telescope. “Our first goals were to change the ...
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