philadelphia will do: Archive

“Physically I’m fine. But mentally my reasons for wanting to be in uniform...”

– Whoa. Jody Gerut’s statement about his retirement is deep.

Feb 27th

“Team mascot Benny the Bull and ambassador Scottie Pippen presented Chicago...”

– The “Notes” section of the AP recap of the Heat’s win over the Bulls contains important information.

Feb 25th

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Feb 22nd

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Ahh, simpler times: When baseball spring training meant shilling for smokeless tobacco on television. (via Flip Flop Fly Ballin’)

Feb 21st

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Feb 15th

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Carol Channing and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for Atari. This makes sense.

Feb 10th

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Milton Street’s running for mayor again! Hopefully, that means we’ll get another rally like the one in 2007. Video by Jess Fuerst from this old PWD post.

Feb 7th

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Feb 7th

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“However, multiple sources inform me that a move is indeed on the way, and one...”

– The hilarious Jon Gruden to replace Andy Reid rumors are all worth it just for the above sentence.

Feb 7th

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I contributed to Adweek’s Super Bowl commercials liveblog. It’s archived now, and you can go read my jokes and the comments thoughts of people who did things other than write jokes and actually analyzed this stuff. (There were some tremendous insights on Eminem’s previous reluctance to do commercials. Then he was in two!) It was quite good; I was reading comments from it aloud...

Feb 7th

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A couple weeks ago I moved from news to sports at Comcast.net and I’m now working nights and weekends. As such, I watch a ton of sports for work. By far my favorite moment in sports Friday night was this clip from of Ronny Turiaf reacting to the Red Panda Acrobat. There’s also an awesome crowd-reaction shot, too. Also, yes, the Red Panda is awesome — how pointless-yet-amazing is...

Feb 5th

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Feb 5th

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Feb 5th

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Super Bowl Prediction Quiz!

Below, I supply 12 Super Bowl predictions. Six are from celebrities, from this list on SI.com. The other six are from bona fide ESPN writers and NFL analysts — people paid to do this for a living! — from this list on ESPN.com. Can you identify which quote is from a celebrity and which is from an NFL analyst? Good luck! A. Steelers. “The Packers are going to have a tough time...

Feb 4th

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