BY PHIL ANDREWS, Senior Writer
As a season ticket holder, I am not 100% thrilled to know that I have to wait until June 27 to watch my team play in its new soccer specific stadium. But then again that’s just me being a spoiled brat.
No I take that back, it’s like me, having to wait four months to open a birthday present I know I really want and can’t wait to open.
The Flyers drop another one by a score of 2-1, making it two in a row to round out road trip that saw only one win
BY JAY BOEHMER. Staff Writer
Photo: AP
Out-shooting the Wild 17-7 in the first, the Flyers had the better of the puck control. The few shots the Wild did have, however, were close calls. Minnestoa netted their first goal as Owen Nolan pressured Flyer goalie Michael Leighton into a turnover that went out front to Cal Clutterbuck for an easy goal and a 1-0 lead. The Flyers answered 26 seconds later as Dan Carcillo batted a Braydon Coburn rebound out of the air past goalie Anton Khudobin to tie the game 1-1.
BY PHIL ANDREWS, Senior Writer
Well, with the big game just a few days away I thought it was time to release some Super Sunday predictions from some of my more notable Facebook friends. So I spent the past week chatting with some of my “friends” and asked them each a simple question — who do you like in Super Bowl XLIV? Now, without further adieu, their picks, for you.
BY SHAY RODDY
If you’re like me, and stuck inside your house on this snowy, beautiful Saturday morning, then you’ll turn to the internet to catch up on sports news that you might have missed this week. So I figured why don’t I go around the web and find some of the best Philly sports stories for you to read and then conveniently list them for you below.
BY NICK STAFFIERI, Contributor
As the 2010 edition of the Philadelphia Phillies begins their annual winter trek to Clearwater FL, many fans have questions resulting from the disappointing (and must I say stomach curling) loss in last year’s World Series to the New York Yankees. There were certainly some deficiencies with the 2009 team that became exposed in that series. The question on every fan’s mind is, have those deficiencies been properly addressed during this off-season? Here is a list of seven questions for this Spring Training followed by my answers.
BY LOU ORLANDO for High Hopes
It’s been more than two months since the Phillies traded Cliff Lee to the Seattle Mariners for a cache of young prospects. Yet, the uproar over the trade simply won’t go away. Why?
As recently as this past weekend, both the local talk-radio shows spent considerable time dissecting the trade while callers were still being critical and voicing strong objections. Why?
In my opinion, it’s because the Phillies didn’t tell us the whole truth behind the trade from the start, and to this day, as evidenced by Ruben Amaro’s comments a recent edition of The Inquirer, the Phillies continue to bob and weave while trying to put their own self-serving spin on the story.
I feel like the Phillies were trying to hoodwink myself and the rest of the fans from the very start. Let’s look at the facts.
The Flyers fell to the Edmonton Oilers, after a goal in the final seconds gave the Oilers the “W” and prevented the Flyers from getting a well-deserved point.
BY PHIL ANDREWS, Senior Writer
Last week the expansion Philadelphia Union trained indoors at a Philadelphia area healthplex. The ground outside was still wet from a recent snow fall and the temps certainly not on the tepid side.
Union head coach Peter Nowak, used the sessions to start getting his team tuned up for their first ever training camp. That training camp by the way kicking off this week in Greensboro, N.C.
Ah yes, soccer in North Carolina, green grass, warmer temps, and thermal underwear. Wait minute, thermal underwear?
[Ed. Note: See parts one and two of Jared Nagles' off-season needs series here and here.]
BY JARED NAGLE, Staff Writer
Off Season Need #3: Free Safety
Photo: Daylife
As radical and off the beaten path as it is, I believe there are a lot of similarities between the free safety position and the tight end position. As a reader you are probably saying to yourself, “oh my God, High Hopes’ newest Eagles beat writer doesn’t know the difference between offense and defense!” In fact, I do know the difference, and I am willing to back up my proclamation with some insight.
The easiest comparison to draw between the two positions is that the tight end is often covered by the free safety, but of course that’s too easy. These two positions are comparable for three reasons:
BY SHAY RODDY
I think I have a another reason that Philly sports fans are the best in the world.
As you all know by now, a true Philadelphia legend, Harry Kalas, passed away back on April 13 in Washington. It still stings to think about baseball without Harry. It just isn’t the same.
Since the day Harry died, fans have been trying to come up with a way to honor the fallen monument.
Philles fan Antonio Jose created an online petition, via Facebook, to have a statue erected outside of Citizens Bank Park. Then a guy by the name of Lawrence J. Nowlan signed the petition. It just so happened that Nowlan was a nationally acclaimed sculptor, famous for many memorial statues.
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