BY MIKE WOLVERTON SPORTS GUY Well, that was kinda boring. In an “I’m glad it was boring” sort of way. Some big second half passes and a couple of scores made this look like a dominating Eagles performance, but most of this game was a snoozer. Thank the painfully inept Jaguars offense. You’d like to be able to credit Philadelphia’s defense for making Jacksonville look so bad, but this was more about the Jags than the Eagles D. Jacksonville QB David Garrard was inaccurate, indecisive and incontinent in the face of the Eagles pass rush. Garrard completed just 13 of […]

PICTURE UNRELATED: Awesome vintage 70s Eagles artwork, just because BY MIKE WOLVERTON SPORTS GUY So, what have we learned? 1. Mike Vick can throw it pretty well. We never really got a chance to see this last year — there were a few nice passes here and there, but it was such a small sample size it was impossible to tell what he would do with 30 attempts in a game. Again, he can throw it pretty well. Don’t let the fact that the Lions dropped two interceptions make us forget that those passes were there to be picked. In […]

[Photo by ALEX TORBAN] BY MIKE WOLVERTON SPORTS GUY It was interesting to see that the Eagles listed no one on their injury report prior to Week 1. One source called them “the healthiest team in the league”. And…that lasted about one quarter. Leonard Weaver: gone. Jamal Jackson: done. Stuart Bradley: shaken. Kevin Kolb: concussed. Often the best team in the NFL is the healthiest. The Eagles aren’t nearly so good that they can survive injuries to major players. If Week 1 is any indication, it’s going to be a long year.So, how did Kolb look before Clay Matthews sent […]

BY MIKE WOLVERTON In honor of my ADD children, here’s a quick Q&A with myself on some of this weekend’s pressing sports issues. Q: Are the Flyers the greatest team ever? A: Obviously. Here’s a team that has had goaltending issues since the Lindbergh/Hextall days of the ‘80s. There’s seemingly a new goalie in town every year (who remembers Ray Emery?). Now the plan has been accelerated to a new goalie every two weeks! The Flyers fell behind the Bruins three games to none in Round 2 of the playoffs, then lost goalie Brian Boucher to injury in Game 5. […]

Last night, a towel-waving fan ran onto the field at Citizen’s Bank and got tasered by the popo. Who doesn’t love a happy ending? DAN RUBIN: The Phillies and police met yesterday to work out some procedures for future run-ons. Here’s my vote: Sending a cop out with a Taser gun is plain idiocy. Let’s start with what could go wrong. This year, CNN investigated police use of Tasers because a California man went into cardiac arrest after an officer fired an “Electronic Control Device” three times into his chest. The man, Stephen Butler, had been drinking. Butler is now […]

PHILLY.COM: At 1:40 p.m. Saturday, the single-day record crowd of 54,310 at the 116th Penn Relays at Franklin Field – many clad in yellow, green and black – began to roar. It was the type of moment that will live on as another chapter in the storied history of the Carnival. And to think Jamaican superstar sprinter Usain Bolt was merely just beginning to warm up. His “USA vs. the World” 4 x 100-meter relay race wasn’t going to start for another hour. As Miki Barber, a member of the victorious USA Blue 4 x 100 women’s team put it: […]