Tom Archdeacon to be inducted into USBWA Hall of Fame

Archdeacon’s biography on DaytonDailyNews.com describes him  as “an old-school storyteller who writes about sports, the city, southwest Ohio and anything else that catches his fancy or yours.”

Archdeacon is well known for telling the story behind the story. In the past 12 months, he was the first reporter to talk to Steve McElvene's family after the death of the Dayton Flyers center in May. Earlier this basketball season, he talked to the three UD players from Chicago about the gun violence in their hometown. Then he sat down with Dayton senior Kyle Davis to talk about the stories behind all of his tattoos.

The USBWA Hall of Fame class also includes: Steve Carp, of the Las Vegas Review Journal; Sports Illustrated’s Frank Deford; and David Teel, of the Daily Press in Newport News, Va. The four will be honored at the Final Four in Glendale, Ariz., in April.