Two straight appearances in the World Series is something for which the Phillies can be very proud. In fact, they probably were good enough to have won back-to-back World Series, but the Yankees pitched a little bit better and got some clutch hitting from more than one player...
Major League Baseball learned a little bit about what it was doing wrong in last year's World Series...games that started close to 8:30 will now start at 7:57 this year...
A survey was just released that tells us the word "whatever" is the word we hate to hear the most...it's annoying, it's said with an attitude and it's way overused...
The Phillies find themselves in the post-season for the third straight year. The first two years couldn't have been more different.
In 2007, the Phillies were swept out in three straight games in the division series by Colorado...
The first regular season football game ever between Delaware and Delaware State comes up September 19th and the occasion has gotten the News-Journal so excited that the newspaper needed to come up with a trophy to give to the winning team...
I used to like Rick Pitino....even though I always thought there was something a little shady about him. Now I know it's more than just shady...how do immoral, duplicitous and just plain sleazy sound?
You probably know the story by now...
We have heard from many people, long-time Eagles fans, who are now irate that the team signed Michael Vick, vowing to withdraw their support.
I understand the emotion...
The NCAA has once again issued a ruling that is wrong. Here it is....
“No predetermined or non-predetermined session of an NCAA championship may be conducted in a state with legal wagering that is based upon single-game betting (high school, college or professional) in a sport in which the NCAA conducts a championship...
The University of Delaware is feeling the economic crisis the same as everyone else. With a new school year approaching, and new athletic seasons, the school is trying to squeeze as much out of every dollar as it can...
The big story at last week's British Open was two-fold...Tom Watson, at age 59, coming within a missed 8 foot putt of becoming the oldest major winner in golf history...
It's been several years now and major league baseball is still rewarding World Series home field advantage to the league that wins the All-Star game...
It seems like it all started with Monica Seles, some 20 years ago...every time she hit a shot, she would grunt, like she had just lifted 200 pounds over her head...
If you are a voter for the Baseball Hall of Fame, deciding who gets in and who doesn't is likely to get more difficult in future years. That's because of the steroid specter looming over major league baseball...
Elena Delle Donne will play basketball at the University of Delaware next year...one year after she returned from UConn, where she was recruited, saying she was burned out...
Well, well, well. The Phillies, who don't look much like the team that won the 2008 World Series, somehow have a record of 29-20, third best in all of baseball...
Delaware has a new athletic director. Bernard Muir comes to Newark from Georgetown, where he was AD since 2005. It's an interesting move...from a private school of 7000 that is big-time in basketball but very small-time in football to a public university (yes, that's right, UD, a public university in spite of your nonsense about being a state-assisted private institution) of 16,000 with a big-time (in a small pond) football program and little else that stands out...
Tell me if this makes any sense to you. Georgia football coach Mark Richt has recruited a young man by the name of Chris Burnette, an offensive lineman out of Troup, Georgia...
Now I don't profess to be a hockey expert. Of the four major sports, it is the one I understand the least, although it is fair to say, I'm not totally ignorant about it...
The day we all knew would come has arrived. We will no longer hear the baritone of Harry Kalas announcing another long ball by the "Big Man" as "outta heeeere"...
The NFL will unveil the 2009 schedules of all its teams Tuesday in a special on the NFL Network. I don't know about you, but that hasn't raised my heart rate any...
Most everyone felt North Carolina would win the men's basketball championship when the season started and, as a result, Monday night's 89-72 UNC whipping of Michigan State in the championship came as no surprise to most people...
John Calipari will become the new head basketball coach at the University of Kentucky, leaving Memphis where he is making around $1.8 million per year with a one million dollar annuity...
In a move that many thought would occur, Edgar Johnson has announced he is retiring as the University of Delaware athletic director after 25 years, effective June 30th...
The best three week period of the sports calendar is upon us...when the U.S. citizenry comes down with a mass case of March Madness.
Now this is just my personal opinion of course...
Terrell Owens is a Buffalo Bill. His new quarterback is either Trent Edwards or J.P. Losman.
In his three previous stops, his main quarterbacks have been Jeff Garcia, Donovan McNabb and Tony Romo...
The Eagles have fumbled again...at the goal line. With Brian Dawkins heading for the Denver Broncos, the Eagles have infuriated their fan base, all to continue their philosophy of not hanging on to aging players...
Now that Delaware is playing Delaware State in a regular season football game this September, the News-Journal editorial page has a great idea....let's make it the last game of the season!!!
Two problems with that...
For the first time in history, Delaware will play Delaware State in a regular season football game. It was announced Tuesday, that the Hornets will visit Delaware Stadium on September 19th, filling the void left when Furman cancelled out of their game with Delaware to play Missouri for a big payday...
Baseball has returned. And for Phillies fans, it is especially sweet this year. Even though the odds are long of repeating, the Phillies are still the world champions of baseball until someone else dethrones them...
I'm getting tired...tired of constant reminders of how unethical baseball players are.
As you probably know by now, Yankees 3rd baseman Alex Rodriguez aparently tested positive for steroids in 2003...
I just read this morning that Donovan McNabb apparently was critical of his defense , in an interview on a Philly sports talk station, in the team's loss to the Arizona Cardinals...
When David Henderson was relieved of his duties as head basketball coach a few years ago, and Monte Ross was hired, Delaware basketball fans knew it would not be a quick return to a position of prominence...
Another Eagles season has ended short of a Super Bowl victory. Now this shouldn't really surprise anyone, considering the team's pedestrian 9-6-1 regular season mark and the miracles that needed to take place for the Eagles to even make the post-season...
When the AFC and NFC decide their champions this weekend, there will be a distinct FCS (old 1-AA) feel to the games.
Of the four starting quarterbacks in the two games, two will be from FCS schools...
Seinfeld fans know what the Bizarro world is...in one episode, there was a world that was the exact opposite of Jerry Seinfeld and his friends....Elaine stumbled into this world when she met a group of three friends who were the exact opposites of Jerry, George and Kramer...
The sports year in Delaware was nothing if not interesting.
Without question, the top story was the Phillies World Series win...if not completely a surprise, it certainly wasn't predicted by too many people...
We may be just days away from finding out if Pat Devlin will be coming to the University of Delaware. Who is Pat Devlin, you ask? Until a few days ago, he was a much-heralded backup quarterback at Penn State...
Everyone knows about the problems college football has coming up with the two teams that will play for the BCS title...hence the annual call for a playoff in the Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division 1-A)
Now comes word that in the Big 12, Texas quarterback Colt McCoy won conference offensive player of the year honors...
Charlie Weis is 6-6 this year at Notre Dame...this after a 3-9 record in 2007. This was supposed to be a much improved season for the Fighting Irish, and I guess, in a sense, 6-6 is a big imrpovement over 3-9...
The nation's economy is in a shambles....U.S. forces are still in Iraq and still trying to figure out an exit strategy...problems abound for the U.S...
Hats off to the Phillies. Most "experts" thought the Rays would knock off our Phillies in the World Series and we would be left with another championship-less season...
The Phillies and Rays have played two games in the World Series so far. The Phils have scored 5 runs, the Rays 6. The series is tied at one game apiece...
The Phillies take on the Los Angeles Dodgers starting Thursday in the NLCS...here are some of my random thoughts.
Why, as a Phillies fan, do I always think the Phils are going to lose? It must be in-bred in me...
For the second straight year, the Phillies are in the post-season. For many Phillies fans, this is the first time that has happened in their lifetimes...
First impressions of the Eagles after two games....
It was hard to learn much from the Rams rout...the Rams are that bad. But I was encouraged by the Dallas game...
I know this is just a personal peeve, but here is my question.
Why does the NFL allow the home team to pick which color jersey it wears? That doesn't happen in any other sport that I know of...
Elena Delle Donne told the media on Monday she is burned out on basketball. Now, that by itself may not be unusual...but factor in that she was the top high school girls basketball player in the country last year...
Eight gold medals...7 world records...and one Olympic record. Michael Phelps showed conclusively that he is the greatest swimmer of all-time...even getting the approval of 7 time Gold medal winner Mark Spitz...
For all those Delaware football fans who think the Blue Hens should go "big-time" in college football, look to the north for a cautionary tale.
Rutgers University has improved its football program under head coach Greg Schiano, so much so that the school was the story of the college football season two years ago when it went 11-2...
The numbers for the Phillies over the past 30 games aren't good. After hitting the Cardinals with 20 runs on June 13th, the Phils have averaged fewer than 4 runs per game...
Penske Racing has decided to allow another race team to say the signature Seinfeld line to Ryan Newman. Newman is just another driver that has been told that he will not be with his team next season...
Here are some random thoughts after Monday night's home run derby at Yankee Stadium.
I can't stand Chris Berman. His back-back-back-back is stupid, annoying, overused, ridiculous...
Do you remember the days when the Tour de Trump (later Tour duPont) was a part of the Delaware sports scene? It's been dead for a number of years, but for several years, we in Delaware were "treated" to bicycle racing in Wilmington before it left and headed south for the rest of the race...
The Phillies have been shut out 3 times in the month of June. After a 20 run barrage on June 13th, the Phillies have averaged fewer than 3 runs per game...
Tiger Woods may have delievered the most amazing sports performance I've ever seen. Keep in mind, I am not a big Tiger fan. In fact, I like to see other people win because he wins so much I find it boring...
The great Bulle Rock experiment is coming to a close. It was announced over the weekend that the LPGA Championship would be leaving the Havre de Grace course when its contract is up, following the 2009 tournament...
Here we are two months into the baseball season, and here are some thoughts.
It's a long season. I know the Florida Marlins are in first place in the NL East, but I don't expect that to last much longer (in fact it could end this weekend against the Phillies)...
I read this morning that Fran Burbidge will not be returning for a third season as head basketball coach at Ursuline. Burbidge was 1 for 2 in state championships with the Raiders, finishing runnerup in his first year and winning the state title last year in Elena Delle Donne's final season...
At this time every year (or at some time), the question goes out...which Philadelphia sports team will be the next to win a championship? Most years, the answer is none of them !
The Flyers gave us a nice run this year...
Yes, I'm coming back to the Ryan Howard saga. We are now into the second week of May and the one-time Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player continues to be mired in a horrible slump...
With the breakdown and subsequent euthanizing of Eight Belles at the end of the Kentucky Derby, horse racing's grandest stage has become the focus of a debate: why are so many horses breaking down and what can be done about it...
Starting in 2009, some University of Delaware football season ticket holders will be sitting in different seats. And it appears that's not sitting well with them...
With two Philadelphia professional sports teams in the post-season, the question inevitably comes up...which of the city's four major league sports teams will be the first to win a title? The Flyers lead in their Stanley Cup series with Washington, 2 games to 1, while the Sixers are getting ready to start a first round series against Detroit...
I know it is probably too early to make any definitive judgment on how much Ryan Howard will/should eventually get when he signs a long-term contract, either with the Phillies or someone else...
Well, one game is in the books with 161 to go. Unfortunately, the Phillies kind of looked like what we expected.
In their 11-6 loss to Washington on opening day, the Phillies pitching was abysmal...
The Phillies are back north as I write this, with three exhibition games before the regular season starts on Monday.
Here's what we can deduce from spring training...
Brett Myers looks like he's ready to start the season...and he better be because its just a few days away.
Myers threw 5 scoreless innings against the New York Yankees on Wednesday, giving up just 2 hits and lowered his ERA to 1...
In just a few days, the Phillies will complete their Florida portion of spring training and head north...where they will complete their exhibition schedule with a pair of games against Toronto at Citizens Bank Park on Friday and Saturday and against their Triple A affiliate, the Lehigh Valley IronPigs on Sunday...
If it all sounds like a load of fun to watch spring training baseball and get paid to do it...well, it is. But let me tell you the other side.
Last night, the Philies played the Yankees in Tampa...
Robin Bryson said it best...there's nothing better than the sound of a wooden bat hitting a baseball.
We arrived Friday night, late and have been at two games...
Next week (March 22-28), Robin Bryson and I will be in Clearwater, covering the Phillies for both WDEL and WDEL.com. We will be shooting some video pieces and are hoping to catch up with some Delawareans who want to be "video stars"...
George Mason will represent the CAA in the NCAA basketball tournament by virtue of their win over William and Mary Monday night in the CAA title game...
Cole Hamels is unhappy. He wanted $750,000 from the Phillies but they re-signed him for $500,000.
It's Hamels second full season. He's not eligible for arbitration until next year...
With today's spring training opener between the Phillies and the Cincinnati Reds, it leads me to think about the upcoming season with the Fightin' Phils...
The Phillies lost their arbitration case today with Ryan Howard, meaning the Phillies first baseman gets $10 million this year instead of $7 million...
Wednesday's Congressional hearing featuring Roger Clemens and his former personal trainer, Brian McNamee, was nothing less than a complete circus.
I watched a little bit of it, and read a great deal about it...
Congratulations to the New York Giants. They pulled off one of the biggest upsets in Super Bowl history.
I know some Eagles fans who are anti-New York...
It's less than a month until pitchers and catchers report to Clearwater, and I'm starting to get excited about the Phillies.
I attended a breakfast this morning for suite holders and high end ticket holders and I felt an excitement among the fans I don't remember feeling before...
I hope Delaware basketball coach Monte Ross doesn't take offense at me asking this question...but what in the world has happened to Sam McMahon?
The Blue Hen senior has become the forgotten man since Jim Ledsome and Marc Egerson became eligible to play in late December...
By now I'm sure you've seen it...the video of Terrell Owens with the quivering lower lip as he defends his teammate, quarterback Tony Romo, after the Cowboys were beaten by the New York Giants in the playoffs on Sunday...
Sometimes its just hard to take educated people seriously. The President of the University of Georgia, Michael Adams, has gone on record as saying a playoff is needed in Division 1A football...
The latest sports soap opera involves Roger Clemens and his former personal trainer, Brian McNamee. Clemens was named in the Mitchell report, with information supplied by McNamee, who said he injected Clemens with steroids and HGH in the late 90's and early 2000's...
After watching just a few of the many bowl games offered this season, one thing jumped out at me....the ridiculous number of college football players getting unsportsmanlike conduct penalties after scoring touchdowns...
I think it's safe to say anyone who watched the game Friday Night can agree that Appalachian State was the better team. Maybe not 49-21 better, but better...
It's finally here! Tonight, Delaware will face Appalachian State for the Division 1 football championship. I'm ready to play the game and I'm sure the coaches and players are, too...
It's Thursday, and it seems like Sean and I have been in Chattanooga for more than 36 hours. We spent much of Wednesday at Finley Stadium, talking with players from both teams...
Sean Greene here... Don will blog soon.
Media Day for the Division I Football Championship (wait, I thought LSU/Ohio Sta... never mind) has just concluded here at Finley Stadium...
Don and myself (Sean) have made it to Chattanooga. We flew down this afternoon driving from Nashville, after a pre-flight that included 2 things you don't want to hear when you're waiting for a plane to take off...
All aboard! Delaware is heading back to Chattanooga for the 2nd time in 4 years (5 football seasons to be accurate) after coming from behind to knock off Southern Illinois, 20-17, in the semi-finals...
Delaware senior running back Omar Cuff has been having the greatest single season in Delaware history for a running back...more than 1600 yards rushing, 33 rushing touchdowns and 37 total touchdowns...
If you were watching ESPN on Sunday morning at 9:30, you probably saw the Outside the Lines piece with Bob Lea, about why Delaware won't play Delaware State in football...
It appears as if the Eagles chances at a Super Bowl....using the current key players...has passed.
With a record of 2-4, and little reason for optimism, it looks like it could be a long season...
If you were at Delaware's Homecoming game on Saturday, you were probably a bit annoyed by the lack of a scoreboard....Delaware Stadium's scoreboard, including clock, score and statistics, wasn't working...
Is it just me, or did it seem as if the Phillies never really were in the post-season? After the euphoria of the last day of the season, when they clinched the NL East crown, it took less than a week for them to be eliminated...
All right, raise your hands. How many thought the Phillies would win the National League East three weeks ago? I know I didn't. But that's what makes it even better...
Jeff Pearlman, a University of Delaware alum, has caused quite a stir with his opinion piece on ESPN.com, claiming Delaware won't play Delaware State in football because of racism...
The Delaware football team has posted two easy wins so far, primarily behind the running of senior Omar Cuff. Cuff has scored 11 touchdowns in the first two games, an unreal number...
Today Don speaks with transfer Defensive End Ronald Talley, who talks about the difference (or lack thereof?) between the pride of Newark and South Bend...
This is Part 2 in a series of interviews Don conducted with University of Delaware players and coaches in preparation for next Thursday's season opening game at William & Mary...
Michael Vick's Atlanta Falcons uniform doesn't have stripes, but his new uniform might. Vick will plead guilty to federal dogfighting conspiracy charges, after three of his "associates" already pled guilty, and gave federal investigators information about Vick's involvement in the brutal "sport" of dogfighting...
This is the first in a week long series of interviews Don conducted with various members of the Delaware Football team in preparation for next week's season opening game against William and Mary...
What a coincidence that in a span of two days, Alex Rodriguez hit the 500th home run of his career, Barry Bonds hit the 755th of his (on the same day, tying hank Aaron) and Tom Glavine won the 300th game of his career...
It's that time of year when I take a week off to catch some beach time....and much to the amazement of some people, I don't pay a whole lot of attention to sports during that week...
WDEL's morning news anchor Peter MacArthur was taken aback on Monday when I casually mentioned I had the ever-popular tater tots on Sunday with burgers and dogs on the grill...
A story in this morning's Wilmington News-Journal indicates the McDonald's LPGA championship may leave Bulle Rock in Havre de Grace when the contract runs out in two years...
Michelle Wie is scheduled to play in this week's LPGA Championship at Bulle Rock in Havre de Grace. There's nothing unusual about that, except for the fact she pulled out of a tournament last week in South Carolina, saying she tweaked her wrist, one she had injured earlier...
It wasn't too long ago that University of Delaware fans were bemoaning the fact that the athletic program had gone downhill since joining the CAA. With the men's basketball program in the dregs (temporarily, I think) and the football team coming off its second straight mediocre season, there seemed to be reason for concern...
Have you ever noticed that all the streakers at sporting events seem to be men? Why is that? Are women too smart to do something like that, or do men just tend to drink more (I'm assuming alcoholic libations have something to do with most streaking incidents)?
At Thursday's Phillies-Brewers game, a man jumped over the left field wall (sans clothes) and trotted toward the infield where he was eventually apprehended by security and police officers and escorted off the field...
Have you been keeping up with the Donovan McNabb reaction to the Eagles drafting of a quarterback in the 2nd round of the recent NFL draft?
While much of the information we have on his reaction is second-hand, there has been enough indication that he really didn't take it all that well...
ESPN recently came out with a poll indicating a difference between how white and black Americans perceive Barry Bonds pursuit of Hank Aaron's home run record...
Last week, in my blog, I lamented the woeful state of the Phillies...another season, another slow start. At the time, Charlie Manuel was saying the goal now was to get to ...
Your manager has a verbal dustup with an obnoxious Philly radio talk show host...then moves his number one starter to the bullpen. Is this the sign of a team with no direction and no hope for the season?
Don't get me wrong...
There is a website, www.countdownto10000, that keeps a running total on the Phillies all-time losses..currently (as of Tuesday, April 10) at 9962. No other professional sports franchise of any kind is close...
Now that the New York Times has run a story about University of Delaware student Marc Egerson, it is time to ask a few questions.
To quickly summarize, the story said that former Glasgow High School basketball star Marc Egerson went to Georgetown on a basketball scholarship after leaving Glasgow High School and finishing up high school at Lutheran Christian Academy in Philadelphia...
I know its hard to believe, when I've just spent a week in 84 degree weather Florida, watching spring training baseball, that I'm anxious to come home...
The Phillies spring training portion in Clearwater is over. They beat the Tampa Bay Devil Rays Wednesday, 9-2, with opening day starter Brett Myers looking like a number one pitcher...
Plans are important....unfortunately, they don't always work out the way you want them to.
My plan was to interview Dallas Green of the Phillies before last night's game for a video piece we're doing...
The Phillies traveled to Tampa on Monday to play the New York Yankees. As most everyone knows, its an experience when you go to the Big Apple...and its also an eperience to go to see the Yankees play in Tampa as well...
It's every baseball fan's dream...to head off to spring training for a week...on the company's dime! For me, I've been coming down to Clearwater for more than 10 years since the early 90's...
Florida A and M basketball coach Mike Gillespie had it half right. After his Rattlers lost to Niagara in the "opening round" of the NCAA tournament Tuesday, he blasted the NCAA committee for putting his team in that game...
It was the last time we'll see Khadijah Rushdan play against Elena DelleDonne in a high school basketball game. Nearly 5,000 fans saw it and, by now, I'm sure you know that St...
With the CAA men's and women's basketball tournaments coming up soon, its a good time to take stock of where the men's and women's basketball programs are...
Well, the worst time of the sprting year is here. Now that the Super Bowl is over, there is a distinct lack of excitement on the sports calendar for awhile...
The season is over, uniforms packed up, and now we wait until the 2007 season. The 2006 Eagles gave us a pretty good ride...at the very least, interesting...
It was a great start to the week for college football. Boise State, striking a blow for the little guy, beating Oklahoma in overtime, in the Fiesta Bowl, 43-42, was the best of college football...
Just when you thought the Eagles were done, Jeff Garcia has brought them to the brink of the playoffs. With a 3-1 record as a starter, the Eagles today, sit in the lead for the NFC wild card...
Monte Ross is the new head basketball coach at the University of Delaware. He is a very nice man. By all accounts, he was a very good assistant coach at St...
All right. It's about time someone from WDEL sports weighed in on the mess at Glasgow High School.
First off, its a shame that Glasgow's fine season wasn't rewarded as it should be, with a playoff spot...
The Delaware football team is heading for its second straight season without a playoff appearance and 3rd in 5 years under coach K.C. Keeler. The Blue Hen fan base is growing a bit restless, after a 2003 national championship and promises by Keeler of more to come...
By now, you've probably seen the video of Saturday night's brawl between players from the University of Miami and Florida International University.
By all accounts, the melee was started by FIU, but Miami players were only too happy to join in...
The ending is all too familiar....the Phillies once again, come up short. They held their fate in their own hands, after leading the NL wild card after last Sunday's win over the Marlins...
If your favorite baseball team doesn't smell the success of making it to the post-season, a fan can go over the schedule and point out any number of "a win-turned-into-a-loss" that cost the their team...
Here we are, 10 games from the finish line, and the Phillies are in the race for a playoff spot. The last time the Phillies made the post-season was the magical (steroid-induced?) year of 1993...
I have only one word to say about Delaware's home football loss last Saturday night to Albany: Wittenberg!
A couple of years back when Albany showed up on the Delaware schedule, Hens fans were scratching their collective heads trying to figure out "what is an Albany?"
Well, the "Great Danes" certainly showed they weren't dogs by up-ending (upsetting?) Delaware 17-10...
