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1 week ago | 
daytondailynews.com | Tom Archdeacon
“I’ll find it,” Wes Martin said as he deftly scrolled through his photos with that same meaty lineman’s paw he’d used over the years to fend off hellbent defenders like the Los Angeles Rams’ All Pro tackle Aaron Donald and the Philadelphia Eagles relentless end Fletcher Cox.
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2 weeks ago | 
daytondailynews.com | Tom Archdeacon
He was C.J. Vogt in the superhero drama “The Cape” and was billed as Theater Kid No. 1 in the family drama series “Parenthood.” The Dayton Dragons outfielder was a child actor, first ushered into the business, he said, as a 3-year-old by his mom, the actress Janell Inez, whose credits include a long list of character appearances on popular TV shows like “CSU: Miami, “Under Lock and Key,” “Bones,” “Las Vegas,” “The King of Queens” and “About a Boy.” She was a regular on the “Steve Harvey Show”...
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2 weeks ago | 
daytondailynews.com | Tom Archdeacon
On one side of her, Marauders’ head coach Elliot Lightfoot is smiling and pointing his left index finger at her, a proud acknowledgment of the athlete he’d helped nurture for three seasons and watched excel with first place finishes in meets across 13 states and several times in Ohio. On the other side of Lofton was the beaming Brad Kocher, CSU’s assistant athletics director, who’s appreciative of any moment when the Marauders shine on the national stage.
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2 weeks ago | 
daytondailynews.com | Tom Archdeacon
Curtis Threatt – Coach Threatt as he was better known to generations of high school baseball and football players across South Carolina and North Carolina, too – was 83 and on dialysis. Julie had moved him and her mom, Ellen, from Lancaster, S.C. to live with her and her husband Michael in the Boiling Springs home where they’d raised their three children: John Michael, Austin and Annalynn.
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3 weeks ago | 
daytondailynews.com | Tom Archdeacon
One thing they did have was rocks. Lots of rocks. When Archbishop Alter opened as a high school in the fall of 1962, it only had 250 freshmen. Two of them were Jim Stangle and Bob Vari, who joined the fledgling football program led by Coach Bill Rankin, who’d come from Springfield Catholic Central. “It was a real barebones deal at first,” remembered Vari. Alter now has its football field right behind the school, but that first year the property around the new school was more like a construction site.
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3 weeks ago | 
daytondailynews.com | Tom Archdeacon
“We were going to be the first to go and there was a lot of responsibility to do this right,” Murphy said. In the preceding years, there’d been some naysayers in town – from politicians to media types – who doubted the $23.1 million stadium on the site of the old Sears store on the eastern edge of downtown would fare any better the last venture, the Dayton Indians, who lasted four seasons and were done by 1951.
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1 month ago | 
journal-news.com | Tom Archdeacon
The reward was Sunday’s WNIT game against Duquesne at Millett Hall, the RedHawks’ first postseason berth since 2019. Yet, in the week leading up to the tournament game, Miami coach Glenn Box had felt a sense of loss in this season of rejuvenation. “It’s just been a funky week,” he said quietly as he sat in his office after his depleted Miami team fell to the Dukes, 73-66. “It really hasn’t been fun. “Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed our kids we had this week and our practices, but ...
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1 month ago | 
daytondailynews.com | Tom Archdeacon
The reward was Sunday’s WNIT game against Duquesne at Millett Hall, the RedHawks’ first postseason berth since 2019. Yet, in the week leading up to the tournament game, Miami coach Glenn Box had felt a sense of loss in this season of rejuvenation. “It’s just been a funky week,” he said quietly as he sat in his office after his depleted Miami team fell to the Dukes, 73-66. “It really hasn’t been fun. “Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed our kids we had this week and our practices, but ...
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1 month ago | 
daytondailynews.com | Tom Archdeacon
Big George’s fury wasn’t good for your fate. Levi Forte, “The Battlin’ Bellhop” of Miami Beach, ended up with three broken ribs when he fought Fireman. Jack O’Halloran flew straight through the ropes. Bob Hazleton got 33 stitches in his mouth. Rufus Brassell, the Lima heavyweight he knocked out in the first round, said it best: “The first time he hit me in the face, it went numb. I had no feeling in my cheeks or lips.
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1 month ago | 
daytondailynews.com | Tom Archdeacon
Now, some 30 years later, he has added another HBCU to the list. On Thursday, Central State University named Carter – who played seven years in the NFL and since then has coached in the pros and at three colleges – as its new head football coach and the man they hope can lead their long-floundering program back to the glory of three decades past. “I grew up around HBCU’s and my first taste of college football was going to their games as a little kid with my family,” he said.
