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Michael Smerconish: A Phils Pitch-a-palooza! - 11/04/2009

CLIFF OR COLE? Hamels or Happ? The Phillies haven't even forced a Game 7 yet, but already the debate around town about who should start a final game has begun.

 

Michael Smerconish: Wanting to score some tix just isn't a crime - 10/29/2009

ABLIND GUY carrying a stick bumps into a buxom blonde trolling for World Series tickets. In any other town, it's the beginning of an off-color joke. Here in Philadelphia, it's a match made in heaven.

 

Michael Smerconish: Rush to judgment - 10/22/2009

IN 2006, JACK Huberman published a book called "101 People Who Are Really Screwing America." Maybe he should add his own name to the list. In the heat of the debate surrounding Rush Limbaugh and the NFL St. Louis Rams, Huberman initiated a game of 21st-century whisper down the lane. But he didn't wait for the lane to mangle the message. He botched it from the start. The result is a cautionary tale about the recklessness that feeding a 24/7 media can induce.

 

Michael Smerconish: When playbook meets praybook - 10/15/2009

DONOVAN McNabb had reason to be thankful. The Eagles quarterback was back on the field for the first time since week one. On the second play of his latest comeback, McNabb dropped back, moved left to avoid a defender and launched a 51-yard touchdown pass to rookie Jeremy Maclin.

 

Michael Smerconish: N.J. race: Boss vs. Bon Jovi - 10/08/2009

"Well, if she wants to see me, you can tell her that I'm easily found . . ."

 

Michael Smerconish: What's cookin' this week - 10/01/2009

HERE'S A carpool: Jon Corzine, Victoria Gotti, Andy Reid, Barack Obama - and the Grimshaws. Jon Corzine is playing the weight card.

 

Michael Smerconish: Pakistan, the perpetual irritant - 09/24/2009

EIGHT years after 9/11, it's still all about the P-word. Pakistan. For years, I've questioned the Pakistani government's willingness to eradicate the extremists within its borders and bring Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri to justice. So yesterday's New York Times headline "Obama is Considering Strategy Shift in Afghan War" was welcome.

 

Michael Smerconish: A boy's adventures in D.C.-land - 09/17/2009

DEMOCRATIC City Committee's chairman, U.S. Rep. Bob Brady, introduced my 13-year-old son into the corridors of power Monday night.

 

Michael Smerconish: A day in the sun for 9/11 hero - 09/10/2009

"CUSTOMS officer Jose Melendez-Perez stopped the 20th terrorist, who was supposed to be on Flight 93 that crashed in Pennsylvania. Probably because of the shorthanded muscle on that team, the passengers were able to overcome the terrorists.

 

Michael Smerconish: 1-800-Political-Venom - 09/03/2009

I'M ON vacation this week. It couldn't have come soon enough. This is the first time-off I've had in eight months, and 2009 has been an incredibly exhausting and newsy year.