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  • Hey parents, keep score at your kids’ games!
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    Hey parents, keep score at your kids’ games!

    I’ve been wanting to write about this for a bit, but kept putting it off. There has been a recent trend developing in youth sports, where the parents and/or the league decide that they don’t want to keep score. “The kids are too young, and losing could damage them.” You have to be flipping kidding [...]

  • Howard and Utley could re-join the Phillies in June?
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    Howard and Utley could re-join the Phillies in June?

    While the offense of the Philadelphia Phillies has picked it up a bit as of late (thanks, Chooch), it’s still hardly a well-oiled machine. It’s not the one-run debacle that it was earlier this season, but they could use help. And according to Danny Knobler of CBSSports.com, that help could be on the way in [...]

  • Manuel and Davidson suspended one game each (video)
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    Manuel and Davidson suspended one game each (video)

    Did you miss the battle between Philadelphia Phillies manager Charlie Manuel and home plate umpire Bob Davidson this week? It was pretty great. Manuel got upset that Davidson got in Brian Schneider’s way as he tried to grab strike three in the dirt. Schneider couldn’t get the ball and the dude was safe at first [...]

  • Co-defendant to testify against McClain
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    Co-defendant to testify against McClain

    From good news to worse news for Oakland Raiders LB Rolando McClain. Yesterday, video surfaced of the incident that has him facing charges of third-degree assault, menacing, reckless endangerment and discharging a firearm. That’s bad enough, but now, his co-defendant has agreed to testify against him. Jaradious Williams has agreed to plead guilty to third-degree [...]

  • More good news for the Phillies, Worley to the DL
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    More good news for the Phillies, Worley to the DL

    The 2012 season has not been too good to the Philadelphia Phillies. They’ve been in last place most of the season and just got their first three-game winning streak of the season on Tuesday. Not good for a team with a huge payroll and World Series aspirations. Now, the team gets some more good news. [...]

  • OTR was wrong, Johnson tied for MLB lead in saves with 12
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    OTR was wrong, Johnson tied for MLB lead in saves with 12

    Whoops! When Baltimore Orioles manager Buck Showalter named Jim Johnson as the team’s closer, we made light of it, saying basically “who the hell cares?” Boy, was OTR wrong…again (happens all the time, we’re used to it around here). While it may not last forever, right now Johnson is smoking hot. He closed out the [...]

  • Dutch soccer player consoled by daughter after relegation (video)
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    Dutch soccer player consoled by daughter after relegation (video)

    Well, if this doesn’t warm your heart then you are just an ass. On Sunday, De Graafschap, a soccer team that no one has ever heard of, drew to a 1-1 tie in their second promotion/relegation game. It was after they lost their first game, and the club ended up getting relegated. Rogier Meijer was [...]

  • Eagles’ Peters ruptures Achilles tendon…again
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    Eagles’ Peters ruptures Achilles tendon…again

    The 2012 season of the Philadelphia Eagles got off to a bad start in late March when Pro Bowl LT Jason Peters ruptured his Achilles tendon. There was a smidgen of hope that he might be able to play this year, but you can squash that talk. A league source tells Derrick Gunn of CSNPhilly.com [...]

  • More surgery for Britt?
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    More surgery for Britt?

    After lighting it up for my fantasy football team in 2011, Tennessee Titans WR Kenny Britt decided it would be a good time to tear his ACL and MCL in his right knee. It not only ended his season, it ended my fantasy season. So, obviously Britt had surgery to repair the injuries, but it’s [...]

  • Jays and Phillies talking about Hamels and Victorino?
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    Jays and Phillies talking about Hamels and Victorino?

    Ken Rosenthal’s report makes it clear that no trade is immediate, nor is one likely. But, he says that the Toronto Blue Jays and Philadelphia Phillies have discussed possible trades including Cole Hamels and Shane Victorino. It sounds ridiculous, but not when you consider that the Phillies are in last place in the NL East [...]

  • Da’Quan Bowers tears Achilles tendon
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    Da’Quan Bowers tears Achilles tendon

    Well, this isn’t good. In the early 2011 draft season, there were many mock drafts and experts who had Clemson DE Da’Quan Bowers as the No. 1-overall pick. Yep, the top pick. But, as we got closer to the draft, his stock fell due to concerns about his knee, which had microfracture surgery on it. [...]

  • Heyward-Bey gets DUI
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    Heyward-Bey gets DUI

    According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Oakland Raiders WR Darrius Heyward-Bey has gotten himself into a bit of trouble. Specifically, he was charged Thursday with DUI after an incident last month. Heyward-Bey was pulled over around 2 a.m. on April 7 after his 2012 Range Rover was spotted driving erratically. He was given a field [...]

  • Werth to the DL as Zimmerman is activated
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    Werth to the DL as Zimmerman is activated

    The Washington Nationals are having a good-news/bad-news type of day. The bad news is that they obviously had to place Jayson “I hate all Philadelphia fans and will firebomb that city when my wrist is healthy” Werth on the disabled list. You’ll remember that he broke his same troublesome wrist on Sunday night against the [...]