Author: fanofphilly
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Sixers changing Uniforms?
The Sixers are planning to change uniforms again in 2009-10. According to a source close to the situation, the Sixers next season will be wearing a variation of the 1982-83 uniforms they sported en route to winning the organization’s last NBA championship. A blog site dedicated to the Sixers reported earlier this week that team…
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Eagles Training Camp Update
Defensive coordinator Jim Johnson seems to favor Quintin Demps at free safety, despite the acquisition of Sean Jones. Johnson said that he views Jones as more of a strong safety. Johnson also talked about his cancer diagnosis, which came after he began experiencing severe back pain during the team’s 2008 playoff run. And he has…
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Let’s see if we have fans out there
I’m wondering if we have any fans to the website out there at all. If you like this website please post a comment here. If there’s anything that you can think of us adding then by all means let us know. It’s a pretty slow day here nothing going on with the Eagles today nor…
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Miller and Ratliff MIA @ last meeting
Unrestricted free agents Andre Miller and Theo Ratliff were no-shows for Philadelphia’s final team meeting of the 2008-09 season on Friday. Miller has been noncommittal about his future with the Sixers all season, while Ratliff was a vocal critic of the coaching staff following their loss in Game 6. -si.com Interesting there have been a…
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Phillies lose to the Mets, darn pitching
The New York Mets sure don’t need any extra motivation playing against the defending World Series champions. Daniel Murphy hit a two-run homer, Mike Pelfrey pitched 5 1-3 effective innings and the Mets beat the Philadelphia Phillies 7-4 on Friday night in the first meeting between the two rivals. Before the game, general manager Omar…
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Kevin Curtis recovering
Kevin Curtis sat out the first day of the Eagles’ minicamp yesterday and won’t practice at least until next month’s voluntary workouts as he recovers from sports hernia surgery performed last month. In August, the wide receiver had initial surgery to partially correct the injury. He missed the first six games of the season and…
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Shawn Andrews to play RT
It appears that we may have had our first real bit of news breaking from the Eagles first spring minicamp. According the Inquirer Andy Reid has indicated that he will move two time pro bowl guard Shawn Andrews to right tackle. Coach Andy Reid indicated that he’s leaning toward keeping Shawn at tackle and moving…
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Sixers season comes to an end
Well, don’t ask me how they lost but they did. Orlando came out shooting 65% from the floor early on to take a 30-19 lead at the end of the first period. From there it all went down hill. The Magic kept that lead and keep shooting the lights out and Philadelphia could just not…
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Freddie Mitchell (Fed-Ex) making a comeback?
Maybe it’s good thing that former Eagles receiver Freddie Mitchell had his (brief) day in the sun before social-media web sites became highly popular.We have a feeling that, if he were playing now, the guy would have been even more insufferable than he was when he was running his yap.Instead, he discovered Twitter and Facebook…
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Brian Westbrook on 610 now..
Brian Westbrook’s message is clear. He’ll help rookie running back LeSean McCoy get adjusted to the NFL game, but Westbrook says his job is to keep the 20-year-old off the field. “My job as an older guy as well as a guy that’s competitive is to help them out, help them be the best player that they…