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Sports: Tom Archdeacon

Archdeacon: Back in form, Javon Bennett leads the way

Dayton's Javon Bennett dribbles against Bethune-Cookman on Saturday, Nov. 15, 2025, at UD Arena. David Jablonski/Staff

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Credit: David Jablonski

Archdeacon: The two lives of Tamar Singer

Miami's Tamar Singer plays defense against Indiana-Southeast on Thursday afternoon at Millett Hall. CHRIS VOGT / CONTRIBUTED

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Archdeacon: In loss to UC, the Flyers were not ‘bad to the bone’

Dayton's Javon Bennett shoots against Cincinnati on Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025, at Fifth Third Arena in Cincinnati. David Jablonski/Staff

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Credit: David Jablonski

Archdeacon: Sammy the Bull finally comes home

Sammy The Bull Wildenhaus, the hard-punching Yellow Springs super middleweight. heads to his corner after knocking out Alejandro Fugon in June of 2024 in Saint Albans, West Virginia. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

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Archdeacon: Jaiun Simon finally shines thanks to ‘a house full of women’

Dayton's Jaiun Simon shoots a free throw during an exhibition game against Bowling Green on Monday, Oct. 27, 2025, at UD Arena. David Jablonski/Staff

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Credit: David Jablonski

Archdeacon: One of the most glorious, gut-wrenching, gallant stories in college football...

The premeditated, racially-motivated, jaw-breaking punch Oklahoma A & M defensive lineman Wilbanks Smith delivered on defenseless Drake quarterback Johnny Bright – an assault that happened away from the action after Bright had handed the ball to his running back in the October 20, 1951 game in Stillwater, Oklahoma – was captured on film (as were two other cheap shot hits on Bright that knocked him unconscious) by Des Moines Register photographers John Robinson and Doug Ultang. A six-photo sequence of the assaults ran across the top of the Des Moines sports page the next day and was picked up and run in newspapers across the nation as well as being featured in Life and Look magazines. Robinson and Ultang won the Pulitzer Prize in 1952 for their photos. JOHN ROBINSON AND DOUG ULTANG / DES MOINES REGISTER AND DRAKE UNIVERSITY

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Archdeacon: UD’s Nayo Lear ‘the most loyal kid on the team’

Senior guard Nayo Lear scored a game-high 20 points to lead the Dayton Flyers women's team to a 86-44 victory over Mercyhurst in the home opener Thursday night at UD Arena. Lear was also the team's leading scorer with 22 points in the season-opening loss last Monday night at Illinois State. The 5-foot-10 guard is one of just two players (walk-on Eleanor Monyek is the other) who has been on each of the four teams coach Tamika Williams-Jeter has fielded since she took over the Flyers program before the 2022-23 season. UD ATHLETICS / CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

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Archdeacon: Bennett has blossomed into Flyers’ leader

Dayton's Javon Bennett, right, and Jacob Conner slap hands during pregame introductions on Monday, Nov. 3, 2025, at UD Arena. David Jablonski/Staff

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Credit: David Jablonski

Archdeacon: The ineptitude of the Bengals defense undoes Flacco’s heroics

Cincinnati Bengals safety Jordan Battle attempts to tackle Bears tight end Colston Loveland during their game on Sunday, Nov. 2 at Paycor Stadium in Cincinnati. The Bears won 47-42. JEREMY MILLER / CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

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Credit: JEREMY MILLER

Archdeacon: The Iceman has cometh for Miami hoops

Almar Atlason, the Miami RedHawks’ new 6-foot-8 junior forward who transferred from Bradley University, is originally from Reykjavik, Iceland. In two seasons with Bradley, he played in 71 games, started 31 and averaged 5.2 points and 1.9 rebounds. This summer, when, as a 20 yesar old, he was part of Iceland’s Senior National Team, he was one of the youngest players competing in the 24-team FIBA EuroBasket 2025 Championships. The field included numerous NBA players including such well-known starts as Luka Dončić (Slovenia) Giannis Antetokounmpo (Greece), and Nikola Jokić (Serbia). LEXI WALTERS / CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

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