October 14 Philadelphia Inquirer: “Two weeks and exactly two preseason games remain before the 76ers start writing this season in ink, not pencil. They might need just a little longer. On Wednesday night at the Air Canada Centre, the Sixers sprinkled stretches of winning basketball with stretches of losing basketball, eventually falling to the Toronto [More…]
October 13 Philadelphia Daily News: “FOR THE FIRST 29 minutes of last night’s 76ers-Boston Celtics preseason game at the Wells Fargo Center, Sixers forward Jason Kapono did the same thing that about 3,500 people sitting in the stands did – watched. He observed the Celtics take a 12-point lead. He saw the Sixers get manhandled [More…]
October 12 Philadelphia Daily News: “STANDING WITH his gloves propped up on his stick, just inside the Flyers‘ blue line in a dark Wells Fargo Center, Mike Richards watched a highlight video of last year’s awe-inspiring run to the Stanley Cup finals. “It gave you the chills,” Richards said. But the banner that was unveiled [More…]
October 11 Philadelphia Daily News columnist Paul Domowitch: “LeSean McCoy spent most of last week watching his teammates prepare for the 49ers while he stood on the sideline, or in the training room nursing a fractured rib. But there he was last night, out on the field, fighting through the pain and helping his team win [More…]
October 11 Philadelphia Daily News: “Out of bad must come some good, and 76ers coach Doug Collins saw a very bad ending on Saturday, when his team lost its third straight exhibition game, 90-89, to the New Jersey Nets. The bad came at the end of the game, when the Nets erased a seven-point deficit [More…]
October 11 Philadelphia Daily News: SAN FRANCISCO — The education of Kevin Kolb continues. It is what this season was supposed to be about, back when. We thought he would get the ball out quickly and accurately, but we did not know when he would learn to be a winner. That was going to be [More…]
October 11 Philadelphia Daily News: CINCINNATI — The Phillies survived and thrived through the Cliff Lee fiasco because Roy Halladay won 21 games this season and because Roy Oswalt was better than J.A. Happ would have been down the stretch. But would it have mattered if Colbert Richard Hamels repeated 2009 this season and not [More…]
By Barry Jeffrey Jr., After a dominating Game 1 no hitter thrown by uncrowned Cy Young Award winner Roy Halladay, the Phillies and the Reds squared off for a second game last evening. It was a return match featuring a 17 Game winner Bronson Arroyo for the young Reds VS a former Cy Young Award [More…]