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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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UD women freshman draws crowd during game

12:38 AM Thursday, February 9, 2012

Terri Hoover didn’t mince any words:

“I don’t want my daughter made into a poster child for controversy,” she said with a bit of an edge in her voice.

Archdeacon: Manning puts 'Eli' in Elite

6:53 AM Monday, February 6, 2012

INDIANAPOLIS — He ended Super Bowl week the exact same way he started it.

Eli Manning left the other guys sweating.

Ex-OSU player faces off against New England in Super Bowl

10:15 PM Friday, February 3, 2012

INDIANAPOLIS — Every morning at Saint Mary School in Lancaster they start with a prayer and Principal Carlton Rider announces the saint of the day.

Ochocinco's silence is speaking volumes

10:27 PM Tuesday, January 31, 2012

INDIANAPOLIS — Nothing Chad Ochocinco has ever said has been more surprising.

Caught in a crush of people with cameras, microphones and open notebooks at Tuesday’s Media Day for Super Bowl XLVI, Ochocinco — once the record-setting receiver and chatterbox of the Cincinnati Bengals, now the barely-used pass catcher for the AFC champion New England Patriots — was asked what he had learned about himself this season.

UD's Miller shows disgust in loss to Rhode Island

11:31 PM Saturday, January 28, 2012

You heard him before you saw him.

As the door to the coaches lounge in the Donoher Center opened, you heard the loud disgust, disappointment, the not-so-delicate language.

WSU's Mays playing hard despite pains

12:19 AM Saturday, January 28, 2012

FAIRBORN — As soon as the final buzzer sounded Friday night, Wright State trainer Jason Franklin headed back to his Nutter Center quarters — as he does after every Raiders game now — and waited for one player.

It’s all starting to click for UD’s Hill

10:05 PM Tuesday, January 24, 2012

That old saying finally is ringing true for Ralph Hill.

“I’d tell him his bread always lands jelly side up,” Vickie Bradley, Hill’s mom, said with a little chuckle.

‘Tu much Dillard’ just right for UD

10:53 PM Saturday, January 21, 2012

Before Saturday’s game with Xavier, University of Dayton officials confiscated any signs Flyer fans tried to bring into UD Arena that they felt painted Musketeer players in a bad light.