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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Local wrestling couple fights through the pain
His face had reddened. His eyes had begun to roll back. His tongue lolled from the side of his mouth and his chin, covered by a golden goatee, was quivering.The vice grip hold on his head and neck had Jake Crist looking as if he was going to submit.Outside the ...
Brown out at Northmont after 16 seasons
What seemed a perfect basketball marriage for 16 years is ending in a nasty divorce at Northmont High School. Jim Brown, one of the best-known and most successful coaches in the Miami Valley, will not be the T-Bolts’ head coach after June 30. Northmont — for absolutely no reasons of ...
Arch: Teaching life lessons through golf
At first glance they wouldn’t seem to have much in common. John Higgins is in his mid-60s and owns Lexus of Dayton. For decades he’s also raced sports cars — he won the 12 Hours of Sebring (Camel GTP Lights class) in 1987 and often has run the grueling 24 ...
No stopping multi-dimensional Marshall
One after another they all made a lavish play for him. Each hoped Jalin Marshall would pick them and lift them to new heights. In turn, the Middletown High star took his time, sized them up, narrowed his list and finally made his choice: Ohio State? Nooooo — this is ...
Derby Week full plate for Midkiff
It’s a big week for Lee Midkiff. He’s been heavily involved in two different business operations – one for 6-year-olds, the other for 3-year-olds. Right up through Thursday morning, Midkiff, the chairman of Springboro and California-based Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners — one of the more successful race-horse ownership syndicates in the ...
Pitcock discussions video game addiction on national TV
Quinn Pitcock - one of our area’s greatest football players - spoke candidly on national TV Wednesday afternoon to Katie Couric about the addiction that derailed his NFL career. An All-State defensive tackle at Piqua High, consensus first team All-American at Ohio State and a once-promising, 328-pound lineman for the ...
Twins powering Cedarville baseball
While there’s no denying that the Ohio Christian University pitchers never totally figured out the Ledbetter brothers in Cedarville’s 11-8 victory Wednesday afternoon, that was nothing compared to that Indiana driving instructor a few years ago. “We allowed to say this stuff?” David whispered quietly to his mirror-image brother. Ryan, ...
UD coach, players helping city rebuild
This is recruiting season for college football coaches and the University of Dayton’s Rick Chamberlin landed another one Saturday. She’s barely 5 feet tall, is 73 and walks with a wobbly hitch in her step. Saturday, she wore a pink sweat suit, a stylish new wig and a bit of ...
Frazier flies one to the moon
Oscar Wilde and Todd Frazier have something in common. Over a century ago, the Irish playwright turned around a long-held gospel and claimed, “Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.” Wednesday at Greater American Ball Park, the Cincinnati Reds’ slugging third baseman proved that point in the most ...
Choo a hit (by pitch) atop Reds’ lineup
Here’s how crazy it’s become. He’s now getting bruises on top of the bruises. Shin-Soo Choo is a guy who masks his emotions the way a river boat gambler sits on a straight flush. But late Sunday afternoon the Reds’ resident pinata finally admitted that one of the Miami Marlins ...
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