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Memorial Day Weekend Musings
BEVERLY HILLS (MI) – Nobody asked me, but…
– Roger Angell, America’s preeminent baseball essayist and longtime writer and editor for New Yorker magazine died recently at the age of 101. While best known for works like The Summer Game, this retrospective on his life and the looming... 
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05-28-2022 09:19 AM
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Off-Season Gifs
BEVERLY HILLS (MI) – The Flyer basketball off-season is in full swing. Next stop for Flyer Fans: The TBT at UD Arena in July. What better time might there be to drop some giffage on y’all.
Here goes:
https://streamable.com/r65jq1
https://i.imgur.com/u5UejaB.gifv ... 
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05-11-2022 11:43 AM
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Film School
BEVERLY HILLS (MI) – Is there any Flyer fan who doesn't love to watch some film of UD stars past, present and future? It’s gotta be the ideal way to pass the time during the offseason. “From the Swamp” is certainly among that number, so without further ado, as Warner Wolf used to say, “Let’s... 
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04-22-2022 05:20 PM
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Watching "Mongolian Mike"
BEVERLY HILLS (MI) – We’ve all checked out the limited number of YouTube video highlights of AG’s 2022 6’8” PG commit, “Mongolian Mike” Sharavjamts. The problem is that they are just that – highlight reels. Let’s face it, no one ever misses a shot on one of those suckers. A few Flyer fans... 
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04-08-2022 11:47 PM
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Peering Into The Portal
BEVERLY HILLS (MI) – The dust has finally settled with the University of Dayton Flyers’ Men's Basketball roster, after Elijah Weaver and Moulaye Sissoko decided to enter the Transfer Portal. Now it is time for AG and staff to gaze into that same Walk Away Window to ascertain the two... 
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04-02-2022 02:23 PM
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A Flyer Tripleheader
BEVERLY HILLS (MI) – It’s not every day that the Flyer Faithful has not one, not two but three basketball games in which they have a legitimate rooting interest occur on the same evening. UD faced the homestanding Rockets in the opening round of the NIT just up I-75 in Toledo; Obi Toppin and... 
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03-17-2022 12:02 PM
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Ouch!
BEVERLY HILLS (MI) – It hurts.
All of it.
The last-minute, come-from-behind defeat at the hands of eventual A-10 Champ Richmond.
The ankle injury to Malachi Smith. Seeing Mali come out of the locker room on crutches with an aircast and watching his mom trying to console him.... 
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03-13-2022 10:53 PM
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Tourney Time
BEVERLY HILLS (MI) – Every fall, when the University of Dayton Men’s Basketball schedule is announced, there is one matchup that “FTS” mentally circles and thinks ‘if I can only attend one game this year, that would be it.’
In 2020, it was Obi’s last home game vs. GW.
This year it... 
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03-07-2022 02:52 PM
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Let's Get Picturesque
BEVERLY HILLS (MI) – My Dad grew up in rural West Virginia during the Great Depression. He graduated from high school when he was only 14 years old. One of his favorite stories about the challenges of being so educationally precocious was reading aloud in class one day and encountering the... 
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03-03-2022 12:22 PM
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They're Gellin'
BEVERLY HILLS (MI) -- In the early 2000’s Dr. Scholl’s had a highly successful, long running ad campaign for their gel shoe inserts with the hook line “I’m gellin’.”
“I’m gellin’ like Magellan.”
“I’m gellin’ like a felon.”
You get the picture.
Even the orthotic Jedi master... 
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02-23-2022 09:27 PM
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