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Tom
Archdeacon
Scurrying to find a sharp facsimile of Tom Archdeacon's entered work in the contest, the Best of Cox team went confidently to the Dayton Daily News' archive. Seeking a column he wrote from Sidney on Sept. 28, 2000, about an Olympic hurdler, we found instead one about Olympic baseball. "Yes, the one about the U.S. winning in Olympic baseball ran on the sports front," a Dayton editor explained. "His hurdler column ran on the front page."
Dayton's prolific wordsmith is back atop the Cox Awards as the newspaper group's top sports columnist, an honor he also was accorded in 1995. He has been at the Daily News since 1989 and, in addition to covering national and local sports events, issues and personalities, has written for every other section of the paper. Archdeacon has reported from the streets and back roads of Dayton and the Miami Valley, as well as from Russia, Ukraine, Cuba, Spain, France, Japan and Norway. Before coming to Dayton, he was a sports writer and columnist for 13 years at the Cox-owned Miami News. His first newspaper job was at the South Dade News Leader in Homestead, Fla. He also taught high school English in Miami and Homestead. Archdeacon has won the National Headliner, Red Smith, Sigma Delta Chi and American Society of Newspaper Editors awards, and the Nat Fleischer Award as the nation's top boxing writer. A native of Ottoville, Ohio, Archdeacon graduated from the University of Dayton with a degree in English in 1972.
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