Football Friday: Predicting Eagles Season and Falcons Game

  View image | gettyimages.com This is the first of a weekly installment where our writers at Eagledelphia.com offer their predictions on the Philadelphia Eagles games. We will track their skill (or lack thereof) at picking the games on our Wall of Shame, which will be included at the bottom of every article.  Without further […]

Patrick Causey  •  11 Sep 2015
Adam Silver: Lottery Reform Years Away

View image | gettyimages.com NBA Commissioner Adam Silver told the Boston Globe yesterday that he and the NBA owners have decided to postpone any lottery reform, saying "It will be a couple of years. Silver cited the drastically increasing salary cap from the new NBA TV deal as reason for the pause, saying the uncertainty created […]

Rob Bauer  •  11 Sep 2015
October will shape Flyers season

  With rookie and prospect camp starting Monday and full training camp to follow on Thursday, hockey is back in the City of Brotherly Love. After an elongated summer thanks to missing the postseason for the second time in three years, the Flyers players and coaches are eager to hit the ice in preparation for […]

Zach Hopkins  •  11 Sep 2015
Sports Talk Philly with Brian Startare: Inaugural Podcast

Welcome to the inaugural Sports Talk Philly podcast with Brian Startare!  Listen below online, or download the file below and take it on the go! Today we have as guests Kevin Cooney of the Bucks County Courier Times talking Ruben Amaro, Jr., Patrick Causey of Eagledelphia taking a look ahead, and Bill Meltzer talking Flyers […]

Sports Talk Philly  •  11 Sep 2015
Phillies and Cubs rained out; single-admission twin bill tomorrow

  View image | gettyimages.com   Tonight's game at Citizens Bank Park between the Phillies and the Chicago Cubs was postponed due to inclement weather. After being slated for a 7:05 Eastern start time, the contest was delayed for over an hour before it was scratched in favor of a twin-bill doubleheader beginning at 5:05 […]

Theo DeRosa  •  10 Sep 2015
Eagles defensive end Curry becoming more versatile

  View image | gettyimages.com Philadelphia Eagles head coach Chip Kelly loves to have versatile football players on his roster. Players such as Malcolm Jenkins, Walter Thurmond, Fletcher Cox and Darren Sproles are all prime examples of players who have the ability to play multiple positions. Eagles defensive end Vinny Curry is trying to join that […]

Michael Malia  •  10 Sep 2015
Flyers head coach Dave Hakstol Needs Total Buy-In to “Hard Hockey” Approach

The Philadelphia Flyers' marketing slogan for the 2015-16 season is "Play Boldly." If the off-season and pre-camp mantras espoused by new head coach Dave Hakstol and Ron Hextall are a reliable indicator of the messages that will be sent to the players throughout the season, expect a very heavy internal emphasis on Flyers players getting […]

Bill Meltzer  •  10 Sep 2015
Phillies president Pat Gillick: Ryan Howard is “still a dangerous hitter”, Ruben Amaro’s fate in “next 30 days”

  View image | gettyimages.com Phillies president Pat Gillick has just a few weeks left on the job.  Once the Phillies 2015 season is in the book, Andy MacPhail gets to take the reins of the Phillies team.  In a must read, Gillick spoke today to Calkins Media reporter Kevin Cooney about the future of the […]

Sports Talk Philly  •  10 Sep 2015
Move Aside Bradley Cooper, Sam Bradford and Rocky, this Brian Dawkins Hype Video Takes the Cake

  View image | gettyimages.com Patrick Causey, on Twitter @InsdeTheHuddle The Philadelphia Eagles are becoming the epicenter of hype videos. Last year, the Philadelphia Eagles released two excellent hype videos that featured Bradley Cooper for games against the New York Giants and Dallas Cowboys (you can see them here and here). Last week, we brought […]

Patrick Causey  •  10 Sep 2015