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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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 ...
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 ...
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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