Change of heart Donerik Black rides his BMX bike to a new beat By Marc Katz Donerik Black is still riding his BMX bike in local and national competitions, and winning some of them. He won three national races in 2015, and now he’s 47-years-old and expects to win more, even though he sometimes has […]
Bowl game bust After years of tweaking, the playoff system still isn’t right By Marc Katz I hate being the old guy in the room, but it has been more than a week since a conference table full of “Bowl People” has chosen its four teams to play in the football playoffs—and 22 years […]
Playing the long game While others moved, Carmen Cozza stayed put By Marc Katz It would be ridiculous to say there is a drumbeat to get rid of Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh after only two seasons and two losses to…well, OK, maybe there is a small drumbeat, but I haven’t heard it yet. It would […]
Hall of Famer Forrest Yantis’ photographs step into the light By Marc Katz I don’t know how Troy’s Forrest Yantis made it onto the field, and neither do many of the people who work at baseball’s Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, where a trove of his exquisite back-and-white baseball portraits from the 1920s-’30s now reside. […]
It’s YOU D By Marc Katz The year Archie Miller was hired to coach the University of Dayton men’s basketball team, Butler and VCU (Virginia Commonwealth University) made it to the Final Four. That was 2011. Last season, Villanova won the whole thing. That’s Kentucky and Duke and Indiana and North Carolina and Kansas territory. […]
He saw, he learned, he won UD coach Mike Tucker says goodbye By Marc Katz Over the years, lots of people not interested in any particular sport asked me general rules of some game in case they were caught in a situation where they had to watch. It’s all about runs scored or points […]
Minuita wins the Series By Marc Katz Baseball’s off-season runs on minutia, and I’m going to get right to one of the best pieces of minutia I’ve ever seen. It’s not the 108-year gap between the Chicago Cubs’ World Series championships, or the 68-year-and-continuing winless run of the Cleveland Indians. You didn’t have to […]
It’s a rigged vote By Marc Katz The polls are rigged. Of course they’re rigged. How could they not be? If you’re in the Big Ten, SEC, Pac-12, ACC, or Big 12 (or have the nickname Fighting Irish), you stand a much better chance of being selected for the college football playoffs Dec. 31, even […]
A life too short By Marc Katz I spoke to Elijah Chatman the morning he died 43 years ago. He wasn’t sick and I can’t remember a word he said, except it probably was entertaining. I was gathering preview material for the Dayton Public League basketball season, about to begin, just a week after […]
Pigskins and pints By Marc Katz I’m actually writing this before the Ohio State football game at Wisconsin Saturday night, but the marching orders from this paper have always been to write a sports column without the scores. So that’s exactly what I’m going to do, and not tell you the Buckeyes beat the Badgers […]
Major key Last weekend a local couple was watching TV in their living room, having a relaxing evening, when suddenly […]
Jesus take the wheel A local couple recently decided to visit their church on a particularly warm and muggy Sunday […]
Flightless In a local park, police were dispatched to the crime scene. A woman called the police when she realized […]
Stolen in a nanosecond Just last week a woman visited her local sheriff’s office to place a tip on a […]
Totally secure knot …not In a local home a garage door was broken into. This garage door was perfectly secured […]
