Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
Poor Donovan McNabb. The guy can't win - even when the Eagles do. For years, people complained that Five is incapable of engineering a fourth-quarter comeback. Then he did just that against the Bears (even though there was a fair amount of time remaining on the clock) and the Redskins over the last two weeks. Naturally, the detractors apologized and gave credit where it's due, right?
Philly Gameday (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
In an effort to deliver more content to the site (since satire doesn't always write itself), I'll start to feature non-satirical local and national news features in addition to the satire. The idea is to give Philly sports fans the feel of a national sports news outlet with an openly Philly ...
Galley Slaves (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
I would have given just about anything in the world to have been there for this: I'd argue that Iverson is the most beloved athlete in the history of Philly sports. (Dr. J is the only other guy in the discussion.) As much as any other jock who's ever been through the city, he's the embodiment of everything Philadelphians want to believe about themselves: He's great; he's troubled; he's authentic;...
Fake Teams (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Joe Blanton. He's arb-elig & #Phillies could use $ on relief. This tweet was confirmed by some Philly sports writers on Monday. Blanton is arbitration eligible after making $5.5 million in 2009. Blanton went 12-8 with a 4.05 ERA and a 1.32 WHIP in 2009. He struck out 7.5/9 and walked 2.7/9 resulting in a respectable 2.76 K/BB ratio. His HR/9 of 1.38 and HR/FB ratio of 13.0% was...
