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1 week ago | 
daytondailynews.com | Tom Archdeacon
He was the lone child of a mother who had moved to Jersey City, N.J. from South Carolina’s Low Country. Powell said his father abandoned him and his mom when he was small and that rebuff not only left him with troubling questions but made him the recipient of even more off-base and bruising answers. He had a complicated relationship with his mother.
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2 weeks ago | 
daytondailynews.com | Tom Archdeacon
The event honors Mark and his wife Linda’s late son, Blake, who was a poster boy for every parent’s dream child – handsome, popular, National Honor Society smart, a celebrated, multi-sport athlete – who died July 3, 2009, after a 20-month battle with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). He was just 18. He was diagnosed in November of 2007, two months after an Adonis-in-pads performance – running for 237 yards and three touchdowns – in Vandalia Butler’s victory over Tecumseh.
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2 weeks ago | 
daytondailynews.com | Tom Archdeacon
And the other was this spring, when he left the Scarlet Knights’ program to join the Dayton Flyers for the upcoming season. Actually, though, there was a third exit in Jordan Derkack’s past and it ruffled more feathers than the other two portal passages combined.
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2 weeks ago | 
daytondailynews.com | Tom Archdeacon
It started back in Jabalpur, India with his pet cow, Pratibha. “I was in the eighth grade and my job after school each day was to go buy milk for our family from an older couple in our neighborhood,” he said. One day he told the woman how he wished he too had a cow. “They were Hindu and Hindus don’t sell their animals, but she gave me a calf,” he said smiling at the memory. “I was so excited.
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3 weeks ago | 
daytondailynews.com | Tom Archdeacon
Sharpenter – who died May 24 and whose funeral is in Sarasota, Florida in three weeks – did have eight points and five rebounds in the 79-64 loss to the Bruins, but that wasn’t his real calling card from the high-profile game. Explore“We really started talking up that game when dad accidently got in Sports Illustrated,” Ned’s oldest son, Nick, said with a laugh from Sarasota Wednesday evening.
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3 weeks ago | 
daytondailynews.com | Tom Archdeacon
Coming into Wednesday’s game with West Michigan, Luke Hayden was the Dayton Dragons’ most successful starting pitcher this season. But he quickly found himself in a jam with the Whitecaps. Although he usually opens with his fastball, the 22-year-old right hander opted to greet batters with his cutter, which so often is his go-to pitch in the course of a game. He thought the change in routine would throw off the hitters.
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4 weeks ago | 
daytondailynews.com | Tom Archdeacon
He’d been injured before in his extensive ultrarunning career. He’d taken the lead in a 100-mile race in Idaho once, but as he came down a mountain at 2 a.m., he fell and hit a big rock face first, breaking his nose. When he finally got to an aid station, they tried packing his nose so he could keep going and he did for another 12 miles, but finally, because of the time he’d lost, officials made him retire. At another race, he broke a finger. But the spill on Sugarloaf was the worst.
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4 weeks ago | 
journal-news.com | Tom Archdeacon
He’d been injured before in his extensive ultrarunning career. He’d taken the lead in a 100-mile race in Idaho once, but as he came down a mountain at 2 a.m., he fell and hit a big rock face first, breaking his nose. When he finally got to an aid station, they tried packing his nose so he could keep going and he did for another 12 miles, but finally, because of the time he’d lost, officials made him retire. At another race, he broke a finger. But the spill on Sugarloaf was the worst.
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1 month ago | 
daytondailynews.com | Tom Archdeacon
“She said, ‘Julie I don’t know if this was you or not. I was just watching this old Saturday Night Live Weekend Update segment with Norm Macdonald, and he talked about this Julie Waszczyk going on a trip to Paris from Enon, Ohio. Was that you?’“So, I had to explain the whole thing to her. “After I got the call, I dug out the scrapbook my mom and I put together after everything was said and done 30 years ago.
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1 month ago | 
daytondailynews.com | Tom Archdeacon
“It wasn’t an evil, demonic darkness, just a heavy, sad, empty darkness. The kids were devastated. Throughout the hallways you heard the sobbing. “Everybody had the same question: ‘How could this have happened? Not him. He always had that big smile.’”Early that morning, as his father was about to drive him to school, a popular, 16-year-old sophomore basketball player for the Wolverines asked his dad to hold up. He got out of the car, as if he was returning to the house for something he‘d forgotten.
