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Arch: English lessons part of the deal for Dragons
When it comes to baseball, messages are delivered in many ways. Crouching catchers secretly waggle fingers at their pitchers. Third-base coaches go through a series of convoluted contortions to signal their hitters. As for Lois Gross, she simply penned a quick, phonetic phrase on a piece of paper for the ...
Arch: Ludwick injury, loss makes for cold Reds start
Through the pain and disappointment, Ryan Ludwick became the mouthpiece of his team. “It’s not the best Opening Day I’ve had,” the veteran left fielder said with a wince as he shifted in his chair following his Cincinnati Reds’ 3-1 loss to the Los Angeles Angels at Great American Ball ...
Arch: Flood heroes end up in same cemetery
The tale of two heroes – Dayton Marcos star pitcher W.G. Sloan and NCR worker David. T. Chambers – now plays out in far different fashion at opposite ends of Woodland Cemetery. On Easter Sunday – exactly 100 years ago – it began raining harder and harder in Dayton and ...
WSU: CBI was well worth the effort
Bob Grant didn’t mince words about Wright State playing in the College Basketball Invitational, the pay-as-you-go postseason competition that is a distant cousin of the much-trumpeted NCAA tournament. “It’s one of the best things we have ever done — absolutely,” the Wright State athletics director said. “This was the crowning ...
UD to address upgrading Jabir’s contract
University of Dayton athletics director Tim Wabler and Flyers women’s basketball coach Jim Jabir both confirmed late Tuesday that they will be meeting soon to address upgrading Jabir’s contract with the university. “We’re all over it,” Wabler said. “He’s a hot commodity now and I know someone will make a ...
Road ends for UD women
Sam MacKay was right … and yet she was oh so wrong. The Dayton Flyers had just lost 84-70 to a bigger, stronger, more athletic Kentucky team in the second round of the NCAA women’s basketball tournament Tuesday night at Carnesecca Arena Tuesday and the senior point guard had played ...
Arch: UD’s MacKay to be object of Wildcats’ attack
If they had set this pregame press conference to music, you’d have heard the haunting theme song of Jaws. Playing the part of the skinny-dipping party girl swimming obliviously in the lagoon would be University of Dayton point guard Sam MacKay. As for that toothy great white shark rising up ...
UK happy to have CJ grad Walker
Although the University of Dayton women will definitely get less of Samarie Walker on Tuesday than there once was, it’s not something the Flyers can really capitalize on when they meet the Kentucky Wildcats in the second round of the women’s NCAA tournament at Carnesecca Arena.Two months ago the Cat’s ...
Cardiac Flyers women show heart in NCAA tourney win
It’s probably not what the doctor ordered, but it was pretty good medicine after all. The Dayton Flyers had just beaten St. John’s 96-90 in an exhausting, gut-wrenching, bloody double overtime game on the Red Storm’s home court Sunday — the first two-overtime game in the NCAA women’s tournament in ...
It’s been quite a ride for UD’s Applewhite
Just before the start of the season, she came close to pulling a Mark Aguirre.In the most storied incident of NCAA tournament play at UD Arena, Aguirre’s No. 1-ranked, 27-1 DePaul Blue Demons were upset in 1981 by Saint Joseph’s, 49-48, on a last-second shot.Aguirre was college basketball’s player of ...
Arch: Flyers bidding for national respect
The other day in his office, Jim Jabir said it again: “I’m just not a political guy when it comes to our sport.” And yet there were times here Saturday afternoon when the University of Dayton women’s basketball coach reminded you a little bit of a glad-handing politician who says ...
Pint-sized Ferrell plays big for IU
He looks like he should be the ball boy or maybe one of the young kids who waits eagerly behind the basket and then hops out to mop the floor during timeouts. “When he first came here I called him Little Michael Jackson,” said Indiana’s 6-foot-5 guard Victor Oladipo. “But ...
Defense is Craft’s calling card, like it or not
It’s called physiognomy. It’s the practice of figuring out a person’s character and personality by studying his face.Ancient Greek philosophers professed it. Japanese naval brass practiced it with their sailors in World War II. And Thursday you could have done it, too, were you with Aaron Craft as he stood ...
Jabir a finalist for national coach of the year
Jim Jabir has been selected as one of the four finalists for the 2013 Naismith Women’s College Coach of the Year.The University of Dayton coach, whose 27-2 team plays St. John’s in the first round of the NCAA tournament Sunday in Queens, N.Y., is up against Lindsay Gottlieb of California, ...
Arch: For this Duke, it’s all about the fight
Although he was surrounded by joyous teammates, Devon Moore couldn’t wait to get out of the cramped dressing room in UD Arena Wednesday night. He had a phone call to make and he needed to hear the person on the other end of the line. His James Madison team had ...
Arch: Familiar script, but with a twist
It was déjà vu … with a different ending. “As soon as I started coming down that big ramp to the court it all came back to me vividly,” said North Carolina A&T assistant coach Darren Corbett. “I remembered the first time I was here in Dayton for an NCAA ...
Flyers women disappointed with No. 7 seed
Although they reached new heights this season — they’re now 27-2 and have been nationally ranked since November — the Dayton Flyers are still the sixth youngest Division I women’s basketball team in the nation, and that’s often made for an interesting dynamic. “Every time we take these guys out, ...
Special season continues for Petrocelli
Back at home, before the big game, Marianne Petrocelli said her husband of 51 years wasn’t waxing nostalgic, he was questioning his sanity. A few weeks ago Joe Petrocelli, the 75-year-old basketball coach at Alter High School, had made it official. After a half century at the helm of the ...
UD’s conference fate still undecided
When the University of Dayton’s two-man conference-alignment team — President Dan Curran and Athletics Director Tim Wabler — saw the story in in the New York Post on Wednesday, they were thrown for a loop. “Dayton will join Butler and Xavier next season in the new Big East,” the newspaper ...
Flyers can’t handle Hawks’ big girl
The fate of the two teams began to take shape already in the pregame warm-ups. University of Dayton women’s basketball coach Jim Jabir said he has the same concern before every game, even this year with his nationally-ranked Flyers team: “You’re always anxious about who’s gonna show up for you ...
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