On your marc 5/29: Looking for equality
Is an athlete’s sexual orientation really our business? By Marc Katz Early in our discussion about how far we’ve progressed concerning the acceptance of gays and lesbians on the playing fields of life,...
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Revisiting the National Anthem protest By Marc Katz Somehow, in all the daily tumult out of Washington, I had forgotten about Roseanne Barr’s screech of a National Anthem before a July, 1990, game...
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Do your homework By Marc Katz It is more than two hours before game time, and Dragons pitching coach Seth Etherton is hunched over a pile of stats on his desk. He has already spent several hours on the...
View ArticleOn Your Marc 6/19: Lefty, the Caps & Stanley
Dayton sports great McFadden helped launch the Caps By Marc Katz The call came, as important ones concerning sports usually do, from Ralph Morrow, the former sports editor of the Dayton Daily News. He...
View ArticleOn Your Marc 6/26: Mr. Enthusiasm
Keep your options open By Marc Katz Adam Rosales has played most of the past 10 seasons in the major leagues, recently turned 35 and is in a holding pattern with the Columbus Clippers in Class AAA, the...
View ArticleOn Your Mark 7/3: Just a mile from home…plate
Braxton Whitehead, winning the game of life By Marc Katz You could have given me 100 guesses and I don’t think I ever would have tagged Braxton Whitehead as a future banker. He was the first catcher...
View ArticleOn Your Marc 7/10: Border lines
Travel ban doesn’t impact Dragons teammates By Marc Katz While families have been torn apart at the U.S./Mexican border and protests of outrage are surfacing there and across the country—intensified by...
View ArticleOn Your Marc 7/17: Good any day
Larry Lee’s switch from music to football and back again By Marc Katz First, a funny story. Larry Lee, the big tackle from Roth High School, for a number of reasons decided he was going to UCLA for...
View ArticleOn Your Marc 7/24: No excuses for this life
Leveling the playing field By Marc Katz Tom Montgomery says the last time he addressed a coaching clinic, in Canton, Ohio, he started off by saying he was going to tell the assembled how to coach black...
View ArticleOn your Marc 7/31: Well Dunn
A local Hall of Fame contender By Marc Katz I’m not sure if the Dayton Dragons will ever begin a Hall of Fame, but if they do, Adam Dunn certainly has to be in it. In fact, he should be inducted in the...
View ArticleOn Your Marc 8/7: Off the beaten path
Inspiration is wherever you find it By Marc Katz Thank you Fort Wayne TinCaps and San Diego Padres. The TinCaps, under the direction of the parent Padres, have traveled a scenic route outside the box....
View ArticleOn Your Marc 8/14: Meyer in the mire
Another shadow over Buckeyeland By Marc Katz I am not at all concerned about Ohio State football. Who’s going to go there and lose, especially if you slide the one-year interim reign of Luke Fickell...
View ArticleOn Your Marc 8/21: Beyond the Field
Donnie Evege’s myriad of accomplishments By Marc Katz Let’s not confuse the issue here. Donnie Evege did not enroll at Ohio State to learn how to become a motivational speaker, a philanthropist, a book...
View ArticleOn Your Marc 8/28: A way to play, and serve
Playing for two teams By Marc Katz He was like any other 17-year-old high-school senior, playing football, contemplating where he might go to college, considering his future—all when he probably needed...
View Articleon your marc 9/4: Still Popular, still banned
By Marc Katz I saw Pete Rose the other day, wandering the mean streets of Dayton, looking for a place to place a bet. Okay, no, I didn’t. Actually, I did see a form of Rose, the real one, the Hit King...
View ArticleOn your marc 9/11: On Track
Roller Derby queens still rule By Marc Katz Her name is Mona Lott and she used to speed skate and figure skate and dance on skates and had a desire to participate in Roller Derby when other parts of...
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