- The good, the bad and the Myers
- Poll: Will Citi Field make the Mets financially untouchable? (277 votes)
NEW YORK - The new ballpark does not cast a shadow over Shea Stadium, not literally and especially not at night. But it looms there, crowding into the open spaces behind the left and centerfield fences, the brick and the classic arches signaling both the past and the future.
- Gallery: Eagles Morning Workouts
- McNabb back on the field
- Reid is happy camper as Eagles report to Lehigh
BETHLEHEM - Injuries and contract problems are as much a staple of NFL training camps as cramps and vomiting. (Has a nice, poetic ring to it, no?)
- THE VEHICLES, arriving from wherever, fueled by an assortment of emotions, begin arriving again today at Lehigh. By Thursday night, they all should be tucked in. They come with all of their music and video games and special pillows and other accumulated crap. They come to be Eagles.
- OF ALL the football jargon, "high motor'' stands out as one of the more descriptive terms. They use it, and overuse it, for players who are always going. It creates the image of an outboard engine on a speedboat and that roar left in its wake.
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Rich Hofmann: Progress dictates the end of comfortable places like the Spectrum
- THE ULTIMATE question - wrecking ball or dynamite? - has not yet been answered due to the Spectrum's proximity to the Broad Street Line, but the building is likely coming down next spring. They announced that much yesterday.
- Two brothers from Milwaukee have set up a Web site and held the first of what they claim will be weekly rallies outside of Lambeau Field to try to persuade the Green Bay Packers to bring back quarterback Brett Favre.
- Ryan Howard launched the first rocket in the eighth inning on fireworks night at Citizens Bank Park; ooh, aah. Three batters later, Pedro Feliz did the same thing, and the Phillies won for the first time in five games.
- Give the teams, the town and the times in which we live as Philadelphia sports fans, it seems a good place to measure exactly how bitter we all are. Just pick the answer that best reflects your opinion to determine your Bitterness Quotient (BQ).
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Rich Hofmann: Myers between a rock star and a hard place
- "Where better than Philadelphia?" - Brad Lidge THEY CALL them crossroads because you have to look both ways to appreciate the situation. Which is where we begin.
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Rich Hofmann: Sixers still need better talent
- SIXTEEN TEAMS MADE the NBA playoffs last season. Fifteen of them had at least one top-five draft pick among their main contributors. One team did not. You know.
- ELEVEN RUNS, six games. It happens to the Phillies every 7 years, like clockwork (and locusts). The last time the team went through a batting slump that came close to mirroring June 17-24 of this season was back in 2001. Ah, memories.
- HAVING PLAYED and coached at the amateur level, Peter Luukko said, "I know enough about hockey to be dangerous." The self-deprecation kind of sums up the guy who runs the Flyers and the
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