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By Phil Sheridan Inquirer Sports Columnist CHICAGO -- The Eagles faced a difficult opponent last night, and it certainly wasn't Jay Cutler and the Chicago Bears. McCoy gave the Bears the ball in Eagles territory with a chance...
When Donovan McNabb applied "must-win game" to tonight's game at Soldier Field in Chicago, the quarterback created a bit of a stir. Of course, that happens when McNabb says anything. If he says he's giving 110 percent, he gets...
His team went to the Super Bowl just once and has been a mediocre disappointment ever since. No wonder Lovie Smith jumped at a question about the Eagles' injury problems in order to make a point about his own team.
By Phil Sheridan Inquirer Sports Columnist It was like watching a live reenactment of a highlight from the past, like getting to see Randall Cunningham scramble again or Julius Erving soaring in for a dunk. And with that, of...
In gratitude, the I&GN named a new town site "Kilgore." "Buck" Kilgore had been a Confederate cavalry officer during the 1861-65 Civil War, during which he was wounded and taken captive by Union soldiers. That may explain why...
By Phil Sheridan Inquirer Sports Columnist The Temple University football program has had its share of problems. "It's clearly, unequivocally harder to manage prosperity," Temple coach Al Golden said this week. Any other Temple...
Like most sports organizations, the NFL has a policy on performance-enhancing drugs that works like a fishnet in reverse. It is set up to let the biggest fish - the stars who can afford state-of-the-art "training regimens" -...
By Phil Sheridan Inquirer Sports Columnist With the up-front acknowledgment that we're mining for gems in a mountain of muck, there was a glimmer of insight somewhere in the middle of Andy Reid's Monday Socratic dialogue with...
By Phil Sheridan Inquirer Sports Columnist Andy Reid's reasoning wasn't terrible when he sent his field-goal team out with 4 minutes, 33 seconds showing on the clock. His math was another story. With the Eagles down by a...
Five postseason series in a row had ended with the Phillies spraying champagne in clubhouses from Milwaukee to Los Angeles to Denver to South Philadelphia. The ritual of donning swim goggles and dumping buckets of ice and water...
