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Doug Harris is a sports reporter for Cox Media Group Ohio specializing in University of Dayton sports, Ohio State football.
Was encouraged to get into writing in college, always followed DDN sports writing greats Gary Nuhn and Hal McCoy.
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College basketball scoring reaches 60-year low
The caliber of the play in Louisville’s 82-76 win over Michigan in the NCAA tournament final was applauded by many because of the high-powered offenses on display.Given the ever-slowing pace in college basketball, the game also was an anomaly.Overall scoring in 2012-13 was 67.5 points per team, marking four straight ...
Flyers ready to go for A-10 softball tourney
Dayton softball coach Cara LaPlaca has checked off one goal of turning the Flyers into regular participants in the six-team Atlantic 10 tournament. Her next objective is to put an end to a history of early exits. The sixth-seeded Flyers will play in the double-elimination event for the second time ...
UD softball team making strides
Cara LaPlaca knew what she was getting into when she was hired as Dayton women’s softball coach in 2008. The Flyers had plummeted so far in the Atlantic 10 that they couldn’t see the top teams in the conference without a Hubble telescope. “Our first goals were to change the ...
Euphoria of high finish fades for UD grad
Mike Anderson, a former cross country star for Dayton, was riding a wave of adrenaline after finishing 42nd out of more than 27,000 runners in the Boston Marathon while being cheered on by his fiancée, ex-Flyer women’s basketball standout Kendel Ross. But all of that changed in an instant. A ...
DEs show promise; offensive line not yet set
Ohio State defensive ends Adolphus Washington and Noah Spence turned the Ohio State spring game at times into a sack fest. And while coach Urban Meyer was excited about those budding stars, he was vexed by the play of his right tackle candidates. Vandalia product Taylor Decker couldn’t contain Spence, ...
Miller, OSU offense shows improvement in spring game
Braxton Miller was sacked about a half-dozen times in the Ohio State spring game Saturday, but the junior quarterback was hindered by having to wear a no-contact black jersey, which meant defenders only had to touch him to register a tackle. He’s convinced he could have dodged a few under ...
Washington looks to take over Simon’s position
Ohio State’s Adolphus Washington was always so much bigger and stronger than his peers growing up that he could dominate without having to push himself. But the 6-foot-5, 290-pound defensive end from Cincinnati Taft High School knows his days of getting away with being a loafer are over. If he ...
Buckeyes looking to make inroads in Cincinnati
When Ohio State coach Urban Meyer hired Kerry Coombs as an assistant last year, he gained more than just a football lifer with loads of experience in the sport. Coombs also gave Meyer another much-needed link to Cincinnati. OSU football is big throughout Ohio, but there are divided allegiances between ...
Miller has come long way since freshman year
Even though he graduated from high school early and enrolled at Ohio State in time for spring practice, quarterback Braxton Miller was supposed to spend a redshirt freshman season under Terrelle Pryor and have time to get acclimated to college football. It didn’t work out that way. Because of an ...
OSU’s Smith wants to be well-rounded receiver
Ohio State coach Urban Meyer is known for having uncompromising standards for his players, and he sometimes can make pointed statements about how they’re falling short. Those assessments aren’t always easy take. Junior receiver Devin Smith thought he was having a solid spring until hearing Meyer characterized it as being ...
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