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Sports: Tom Archdeacon

Archdeacon: Victoria Jones keeps beating the odds

Victoria Jones has added new energy and direction to – as well as outside praise and respect for – Dayton Public Schools athletics after taking over as Executive Director of Athletics five years ago. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

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Archdeacon: A football venture like none other in the Miami Valley…and maybe the country

Former longtime area high school football coach Jim Place talks to players from Northmont, Alter, Piqua and Middletown in University of Dayton Arena during the Miami Valley Football Coaches Association Social Justice 7-on-7 on Wednesday, July 9. Place helped organize the fifth edition of the 7-on-7, which took place at various Dayton-area fields. Players participated in meet and greets with each other and discussed social justice. BRYANT BILLING / STAFF

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Credit: Bryant Billing

Archdeacon: Before Obi, there was Sneeze

Sprinter Sneeze Achiu, a three-sport star at the University of Dayton, was elected the captain of the Flyers track team by his teammates in 1926. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

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Archdeacon: ‘Larry, you are a treasure!’: Blind marathoner going strong at 87

Larry Smith and Harry Bradbury raise their arms in triumph as they finish the 1983 Columbus Marathon in 3 hours and 48 minutes. “I had tears in my eyes,” Bradbury said. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

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Archdeacon: He’s got the name and hopefully the game

SAM 7 – Veteran guard Sam Alamutu came to Wright State this spring through the transfer portal from Vermont, where he was part of the Catamounts for four seasons, played in 92 total games and went with the team to three NCAA Tournaments. TOM ARCHDEACON / CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

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Funeral service for beloved Dunbar coach Anna Earley to be held Wednesday

Dunbar High School multisport coach Anna Earley poses for a photo with a group of her athletes. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

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Archdeacon: ‘Football Sissy’ — it’s a book and a look no one expected from former Bengal

Jackie Brennan at an entertainment spot in the Banks area of Cincinnati on her first night out with her friends in the local media in April of 2021. From left to right: Lindsay Patterson, former Cincinnati Enquirer, ESPN1530/WLW and Spectrum reporter now an AllBengals contributor and reporter with Q102; Jackie Brennan; Dayton Daily News columnist Tom Archdeacon; Katherine Terrell, now the ESPN Saints reporter and previously ESPN Bengals reporter; and Jay Morrison, now Bengals reporter for SportsIllustrated.com and previously Bengals reporter with The Athletic and the Dayton Daily News. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

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Archdeacon: Dayton loses a pioneering coach and ‘a wonderful woman’

Dunbar High School multisport coach Anna Earley poses for a photo with a group of her athletes. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

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Archdeacon: UD basketball coach and artist unite after personal tragedies to fight mental...

Horace Dozier Sr. stands near his Dayton Skyscraper photo honoring Anthony and Chris Grant and their daughter Jayda seen in the picture behind them. TOM ARCHDEACON/CONTRIBUTED

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Archdeacon: Top builder of sports arenas in America grew up here, and he’s coming home

Stephen Ross Jr. has worked 22 years with Hunt Construction and now AECOM Hunt. The company is No. 1 in the nation in terms of building sports facilities. Since 1980 it has built over 90 MLB, NFL NBA and NHL stadiums and arenas. It has also built numerous colleges stadiums and arenas as well as airport terminals, hospitals, college buildings, entertainment venues, office complexes and other major structures nationwide. CONTRIBUTED

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