Rich Hofmann

Rich Hofmann arrived at the Daily News in 1980 for a job whose status was officially designated as "full-time, temporary." A senior at Penn at the time, he was hired to fill in on the copy desk during a staff illness. The notion of him covering the Eagles or being a columnist did not exist in anyone's imagination. It was supposed to be six weeks and out, but he never left. It is only one of the reasons why so many people have concerns about him as a potential house guest.

Email Rich at hofmanr@phillynews.com

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Rich Hofmann: McNair's shocking slaying shatters another myth - 07/08/2009: SHOCK GIVES WAY to morbid fascination, which turns to rampant speculation, which is followed quickly by moralizing and all of the rest. Steve McNair, this is your death.
Rich Hofmann: Henderson a happy 'Cat - 06/26/2009: "I like Henderson. I think Henderson is going to be pretty special." - Larry Brown, Jan. 17, 2005 NEW YORK - Larry Brown knew Gerald Henderson before that, of course, before the kid played for the Episcopal Academy team that Brown always said he wanted to coach as his retirement job. Brown's is a big world but basketball is a small world, and, well, you know.
Rich Hofmann: Position in NBA draft will settle Jennings debate - 06/25/2009: NEW YORK - There was the one time, around the holidays, when Brandon Jennings said he thought about coming home. He had defied the college basketball world and defied convention by jumping from high school to European professional basketball, spending his required year of pre-NBA apprenticeship out of earshot of Dick Vitale. He said he was fine with it, positive about it, until Christmas in Italy.
Rich Hofmann: Phillies need new face on the mound - 06/23/2009: AS THE PHILLIES jet off to their favorite place - that is, anyplace but here - so much is going wrong that you can pretty much pick on anything right now as a problem and be right. Except that you'd be wrong.
Rich Hofmann: Phillies slugger Howard lays Foundation in Hunting Park - 06/18/2009: THEY FOLLOWED Ryan Howard around Hunting Park like iron filings attracted to a magnet, dozens of kids and adults circling him, darting in and out of the pack to shout something to him, to ask for an autograph, just to be near him. Howard is a wealthy man, a celebrity, a force - all because of how far he can hit a baseball. For as long as that is true, scenes such as this will be neither uncommon nor unexpected.
Rich Hofmann: Sosa news won't erase thrilling memories of 1998 home-run chase - 06/17/2009: THE SUMMER of 1998 grabbed and held baseball fans. It was not the other way around. It was not a voluntary act. There was no resisting the pull of your communication device of choice: laptop, newspaper, television, radio, all. It became a compulsion, waking up and then immediately finding out if Mark McGwire or Sammy Sosa hit another one.
Rich Hofmann: Phillies' Utley an old-school player in modern times - 06/16/2009: FOR THE SECOND straight year now, Chase Utley leads all National League players in All-Star votes. Consider that for a second. He has never won a batting title, or a home-run title, or been named Most Valuable Player. He is a sabermetrician's dream, yes, but it isn't clear how many of them vote.
Rich Hofmann: Eagles' internal poll dispels negative notion about Reid, Lurie, McNabb - 06/11/2009: ANDY REID is about to enter his 11th season as the Eagles' coach. The last coach or manager to get 11 years in this town was Connie Mack; no, seriously. Mack got 50 years as the Athletics' manager, from 1901 to 1950. Then again, he owned the team.
50 years and counting for Daily News sports writer Stan Hochman - 06/09/2009: By Rich Hofmann

A NEWSPAPER LIFE: Augusta to Brownsville to Corpus Christi to Waco to San Bernardino to Philadelphia. Stan Hochman arrived here to work for the Daily News on June 9, 1959 - 50 years ago today.
Rich Hofmann: Reid, Banner explain how their collaboration works for Eagles - 06/08/2009: ANDY REID was sitting around a big table in the executive dining area at the NovaCare Complex, sitting with club president Joe Banner and a group of Daily News reporters, talking about the Eagles' great organizational mystery, even after a decade: How do Reid and Banner, football guy and money guy, work together?