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Forget the Sixers, watch the Blue Hens

Filed in Delaware by on March 11, 2014 2 Comments

Delaware Blue Hens NCAA tournamentI think I’ll just watch a replay of the Blue Hens victory instead of the next Sixers game. Thrilling always trumps tanking.

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Concussions and Football (And Other Sports)

Filed in National, Sports by on January 28, 2013 3 Comments

When I was growing up concussions were simply a hard hit in the head that took longer to recover from.  As I entered high school, I remember concussions being discussed more often – usually with the warning of not letting the injured person fall to sleep – and not much beyond that. Today, the number […]

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Paterno Needs To Leave In Disgrace

Filed in National by on November 8, 2011 44 Comments

As the story of sexual abuse against children unfolds at Penn State I find myself wondering how Paterno and crew are still standing. In fact, he’s holding his weekly press conference today. Should be interesting. Perhaps he’ll take a page out of Herman Cain’s book and scold the reporters.

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Why Are We Talking About Tiger Woods But Not Ben Roethlisberger?

Filed in National by on April 19, 2010 23 Comments

After looking at the release of the police report, I don’t understand why Ben Roethlisberger was not charged with rape. In one of two handwritten police statements, the woman recalled that she told Roethlisberger, “No, this is not OK, and he then had sex with me. He said it was OK. He then left without […]

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USC Recruits 7th Grader

Filed in Delaware by on February 5, 2010 6 Comments

Via Gather: David Sills, a seventh-grader at Red Lion Christian Academy in Bear, Delaware has got a great arm and seems to know the game of football. Even his quarterback coach thinks he’s got big talent, but being recruited at the age of 13 seems a bit overkill. Lane Kiffin, the new coach at USC  […]

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3 Year Old Colts Fan

Filed in National by on January 30, 2010 2 Comments

This is amazing.

Time for Wapner!

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UD to Go ‘Big-Time’ in Football?

Filed in National by on May 20, 2009 16 Comments

The Beast Who Slumbers must have been in hibernation when the News-Journal’s Martin Frank wrote this interesting speculative story on May 12. But, it appears that the University of Delaware, currently a big fish in the small pond of whatever they’re now calling Division 1-AA football, harbors visions (delusions?) of gridiron grandeur. And that, in […]

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Harry the K Has Died

Filed in Sports by on April 13, 2009 28 Comments
Harry the K Has Died

I just heard news that Harry Kalas, longtime Phillies announcer has died. hat tip to the 700 Level for the image.

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Discuss: The Worst Sportscasters

Filed in National by on November 29, 2008 11 Comments

The merry pranksters over at Lawyers, Guns and Money have up a post discussing the Worst Sportscasters. The list looks too small to me, but I’ll throw in John Madden as my Worst Sportscaster. I’ll stipulate that the guy knows alot about football (and I’ll stipulate that I may be mistaken about this), but he […]

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The Curse of Billy Penn Makes It’s Last Stand

Filed in Sports by on October 27, 2008 6 Comments

You knew this wasn’t going to be easy.  The Phils are but a few innings from winning the World Series and destiny is battling the Curse of William Penn.  For those of you not from around here, there is a statue of William Penn on the top of Philadelphia City Hall.  For decades, the rule […]

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