[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm0VDV5ymmk] I’m slow this week with posting because I am finishing up finals in the last week of my college career. So I leave you with another finals, the Flyers lost game 7 to the Oilers in 1987. Afterwards, famed goalie Ron Hextall was interview and, thankfully, the camera man made sure that we knew [...]

I rarely go a day without posting something, however, it is an extremely rough week. The last finals week of my college career. So, because it will be slow, I’ll give you other “Finals” themed fodder. Here, your man Michael Jordan in the 1997 NBA finals. Game 5, our hero had been suffering flu-like symptoms [...]

IT WAS IN MARCH THAT I first reported for the Philadelphia Business Journal that Mike Schmidt, one of the most celebrated third basemen in baseball history and easily one of the most iconic Philadelphia sports heroes, was launching a charity wine: a Zinfandel. Now, I may have thought it a little funny, if only because [...]

© Pete Marovich /drr.net Yesterday I wrote for The Temple News another in a series of stories on a controversy surrounding the possibility of Joe Frazier’s Gym closing. There will be more to come, for sure. Joe Frazier has developed a reputation for business failings that rival his status as a boxing legend. That much [...]

Never posted this, thought it as good as time as any, at this point, to celebrate the marketability of professional athletes giving back. -cgw Interview and article prepared for the Philadelphia Business Journal, as filed, without edits, to run in the Jan. 11, 2008 edition. Two Eagles lent their significant star power to brighten the [...]

Seen CBS News taking on Barack Obama the former basketball player? (hat tip to Alex Irwin for spotting this for me) Check out video of Obama’s basketball days below, or check out his NCAA tournament bracket here. CBS News has further analysis of his picks and their political connotations, here. This is all about humanizing [...]

What fun to cover. This a brief for the Philadelphia Business Journal today. Mike Schmidt, the Hall of Fame former Phillies third baseman, has taken to wine-making for charity. Along with two other members of the 500 Home Run Club, former Chicago Cubs shortstop Ernie Banks and standout switch hitter Eddie Murray, Schmidt has teamed [...]

(Photo of Dionte Christmas and Mark Tyndale in tonight’s game in Atlantic City, N.J., taken by Kevin Cook of The Temple News) Four years ago I matriculated into a large, urban American research university with one of the more successful men’s basketball programs in the country. Trouble is, it was on the way out. Legendary Coach John Chaney [...]

I stumbled upon this and thought it pretty cool. This silent film claims to be, and I have no reason to suggest otherwise, a home movie of the 1929 World Series between the Chicago Cubs and the Philadelphia Athletics, a series the Philadelphia team won four games to one. The video owner described it as [...]

Tonight, the Temple men’s basketball team beat Big 5, A-10 and North Philadelphia rival La Salle 85-66 to claim sole ownership of second place for their conference tournament, set to start this week. I didn’t go. I was holed up in my apartment doing work, but it sure made me think. I missed the last [...]