Baseball lost a great announcer last month, Harry Kalas. In Philadelphia, where he came to fame, there was a full week of mourning. Harry was honored in endless video footage, eulogies and TV retrospectives. He even lay in state at Citizens’ Bank Park - the first time a baseball figure was so honored since… [continue]

The Indianapolis Colts are poised to release their franchise’s all-time leading receiver, Marvin Harrison. Harrison, who trails only Jerry Rice (yes, that Jerry Rice of Dancing with the Stars fame) for most receptions in the NFL, is reportedly making strange noises that sound something like, “I would like to go to Philly and be reunited with my old buddy from … [continue]

Major League Baseball commissioner, Bud Selig, has made a good decision; it’s about time. As of 2010, the MLB Hall of Fame class will include any former players who participated in the game between 1992 and 2006 who have yet to have tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs. While the decision is controversial with druggies and blasphemists, it is … [continue]

Perhaps the most hotly contested devisional round playoff game will be this Sunday’s meeting of the New York Football Giants and the Philadelphia Eagles. The two teams played twice during the regular season, each team winning on the road. By now you’ve heard all the experts’ opinions; so we asked a few of the fans what they think about … [continue]

Has the luck of Philadelphia sports teams suddenly and unexplainably turned… lucky… or is there a completely irrational, yet entirely believable, explanation?

Sports Utopia, CENTER CITY PHILADELPHIA - For over twenty-five years, men and women throughout the “city of brotherly love” cheered local franchises, both with and without the assistance of alcohol (but mostly with), knowing full well that … [continue]

Las Vegas, NEVADA - This time of year, many men, and even a few testosterone soaked women, place their trust and piggy banks in the hands of online sports handicappers. Unfortunately, a significant majority of these so-called “betting experts” are far better at handicapping savings accounts than they are at projecting football winners. That people continue to trust the opinions … [continue]

A likely trio of illegal immigrants, liberal intelligentsia, and professional basketball players has joined forces to destroy America’s sporting traditions from within this free land.  Their goal is nothing less than destroying the American ideal of manhood through importing the “world’s game” to our shores, and implanting it in the soul of the nation’s youth.

Sport is a method … [continue]

NovaCare Center, Philadelphia PA – Donavan McNabb, long time Eagles quarterback, called a press conference today to state his eagerness for the start of regular season play.

“This has been fun and all, I’ve really had a chance to work on some things, to take some chances and make some plays that you can’t really … [continue]

Little evokes the unsatisfying spirit of Jimmy Carter like a tie in professional football.  Ties are so rare in the NFL that, league wide, the stretch between ties is measured in years.  A certain number of NFL players didn’t know of the possibility of the tie as recently as last week, that number being either fifty percent or Donovan McNabb.  … [continue]

Cincinnati, OH. After fumbling and throwing three interceptions, Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb has brought a long overdue tie home to Philadelphia. The NFL itself has not seen a tied game in six years. Surprisingly, McNabb did not seem elated.

“I’ve never been part of a tie” said McNabb with … [continue]