Whoever thought #flamencodancing would be a trending topic in the Philly sports landscape on a Wednesday morning in May? Then again, we haven’t had a character like Andrew Bynum in town since, well, never. Kid makes Allen Iverson look like a gym rat. If you missed it, Bynum, the $16-million ghost in the Sixers lineup [...]
It’s not how you start; it’s how you finish. Cliched? For sure. Reality in this mini-season of the NHL? Absolutely. Luckily for the Flyers, Saturday’s 3-1 loss to the rival Penguins was nothing more than the first game of the year. Would they rather come out with a win? Yes. Is this in reality a [...]
Eli Manning or Donovan McNabb. For Audubon, NJ, native and Ravens QB Joe Flacco, the time has come to decide who he’ll be compared to by the end of his career. Will it be McNabb, who got to five NFC Championship games, losing four of them? Or, will it be Manning who is inconsistent but [...]
Hartnell down? Not yet. And, from the sounds of it, he’s not ready to go down until Sidney Crosby does first. The Flyers-Penguins heated rivalry seems on the verge of picking up right where it left off eight months ago in the playoffs. A lockout couldn’t put a damper on the intense loathing feeling each [...]
Remember the scene in the greatest TV show of all time, HBO’s The Wire, when Bodie and Poot had to whack their boy Wallace? They had to do it to prove to Stringer that they were down with the Barksdale Crew. The scene depicted the prototypical “prove your one of us” seen in a ton [...]
Add Dodgers sugar daddy and NBA Hall of Famer Magic Johnson to the roll of people in favor of Chip Kelly’s hiring by the Eagles. What a move by the Eagles to hire offensive minded coach Chip Kelly from Oregon! — Earvin Magic Johnson (@MagicJohnson) January 17, 2013 If Ervin is happy about this move, [...]
By FRANK WARD DailyPhiladelphian.com Editor A day removed from Adam Burish’s moronic comments suggesting Chris Pronger is the NHL’s biggest “idiot,” the Flyers defenseman issued a classic response. At fi...
By FRANK WARD DailyPhiladelphian.com Editor Allen Iverson struck gold this week. Once the most dazzling player in the NBA that everyone admired for his willingness to take his small stature straight into the Land of the Giants,...
By FRANK WARD DailyPhiladelphian.com Editor According to reports, Jayson Werth has had his eye on the prize the whole time — the free agent bank-busting prize. The future former Phillies star outfielder turned down a Jaso...
By FRANK WARD DailyPhiladelphian.com Editor Karma is a bitch. Wrong place, wrong time. Michael Vick’s current situation can likely be boiled down to the above cliches. It is that simple. The shooting of Vick dogfighting c...
The Philadelphia Soul is not listed as one of the teams for the upcoming AFL season. Whoever heard of a championship team in professional sports not being able to defend its championship. That’s exactly what happened to t...