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A passion for horse racing, story-telling
He was getting his usual bratwurst sandwich at the lunch counter on the second floor of the old clubhouse at Lebanon Raceway the other afternoon when he said an announcement came over the public address system.“It was, ‘Please turn on the (self-betting) machine in the VIP Room,’ ” Terry Bockhorn ...
Cory Monnin: A story of hope
His younger sister was playing softball that Saturday and Cory Monnin — a popular, three-sport freshman athlete at Miami East High — had helped with her practice in the morning. Over the noon hour, he decided to return home for lunch with his mom. His dad, Mike, stayed with Emma, ...
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 ...
Xenia Christian athlete an inspiration
It was a numbingly cold evening. Earlier there had been sleet. There still was gusting wind. And now it had gotten dark. As the final events of the Golden Eagle Track and Field Invitational were being run Friday night at Bellbrook High School, the few spectators who were left were ...
Boston events bring to mind past tragedies
The Boston Marathon bombings were the deadliest terrorist incident in the United States since the September 11 attacks in 2001. But they are more similar to the Centennial Park bombing at the Atlanta Olympic Games in 1996. While it appears no Miami Valley runners were seriously injured Monday in Boston ...
Game at PBS gives Meyer a hometown feel
While this was a day designed to get a glimpse of the future – the Ohio State Buckeyes annual spring game always serves as a primer to the fall season to come – Urban Meyer found himself looking far into the past Saturday afternoon. And the more he did, the ...
UD football players trying new, safer helmet
What a difference between this spring and last. “I got five stingers within three or four practices last spring,” Dayton Flyers junior safety Nick Weston said of the football injury that pinches a nerve going from the spinal cord or neck into the arm and sends shooting pain, then numbness, ...
Cisco keeping family tradition going with Dragons
Last Sunday Dayton Dragons pitcher Drew Cisco was sitting in the visitor’s dugout at the West Michigan ball park outside Grand Rapids when he said he got a message from Larry Parrish, the White Caps manager and former big league ball player: “Our pitching coach Tony (Fossas) comes up to ...
Arch: Reds rookie keys win over Nationals
As soon as he had come into the clubhouse after the Cincinnati Reds’ 6-3 victory over the Washington Nationals, the other players had pulled him into the shower room and doused him with everything they could get their hands on. “The whole team got me,” Derrick Robinson said with a ...
UD grad Stammen beats the team of his youth
They might not recognize him at UD Arena, but the fans at Great American Ball Park sure know who he is now. When he’s at Dayton basketball games, Craig Stammen is just another fan wearing red who is cheering for the Flyers. But in Cincinnati on Saturday afternoon he was ...
Arch: WSU baseball in possible peril
The charter bus with all the players on board was idling in the parking lot Thursday afternoon. Wright State baseball coach Rob Cooper was inside the coaches’ dressing quarters at Nischwitz Stadium — a room decorated with huge photos of the Raiders’ three trips to the NCAA Tournament in the ...
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