Donnellon's career began in Biddeford, Me., in 1981, and has included stops in Wilkes-Barre, Norfolk, and New York, where he worked as a national writer for the short-lived but highly acclaimed National Sports Daily. He has received state and national awards at each stop and since joining the Daily News in 1992 has been honored by the Associated Press Sports Editors, the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association, the National Association of Black Journalists, the Associated Press Managing Editors of Pennsylvania and the Keystone Awards. He and his wife of 22 years have raised three fine children, none of whom are even the least bit impressed with the above.
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HIS ANGST came and went Sunday, but for a quarterback known for saying nothing, Donovan MacNabb's actions spoke a thousand words. The Eagles had just flubbed a third-and-1 from the San Diego 7-yard line, this time on a well-covered rollout incompletion into the end zone, and their quarterback, who has seen this sort of thing so often over 11 years on the job, had enough.
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KEITH PRIMEAU feels good, speaks clearly, shows less and less of the symptoms that have plagued other professional athletes who have suffered the number of severe concussions that he did as the Flyers captain earlier this decade.
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I AM NOT a neurologist, nor do I play one in print or on television. But if "the No. 1 thing is Brian's health," as Andy Reid said yesterday, then there really is only one thing for Brian Westbrook to do:
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BRENT CELEK had no idea that Donovan McNabb had said earlier, "I would say it's going well." He had no idea that Andy Reid had said earlier than that, "I have a pretty good idea of our team's identity."
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Nov. 9, 2009 - Eagles head coach Andy Reid blamed himself for Sunday's debilitating, 20-16 home loss to the Dallas Cowboys, saying, "It is my responsibility to make sure that we win those games.
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Sam Donnellon: Scrappy Phillies come up short in World Series
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NEW YORK - On Sept. 24, 2004, Pedro Martinez walked off the Fenway Park mound in the eighth inning a cauldron of frustration. His Red Sox teammates had just tied the game at 4, had just built some momentum in a key game to
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AMID A WORLD SERIES in which records have been threatened, tied and broken, one possible milestone slipped through unnoticed the other night.
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CHASE UTLEY WALKED to the plate to start the third inning last night and everyone expected more fireworks. That is what has made coming to Citizens Bank Park so compelling every summer of its 6-year existence, regardless of who is pitching, who is in your bullpen, who you're playing, really.
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Sam Donnellon: Manuel should have pitched Lee in Game 4
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FROM THE MOMENT Cliff Lee put on a Phillies uniform and stymied the Giants with a complete-game victory in his first start, we have celebrated the acumen of Phillies general manager Ruben Amaro Jr.
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Donnellon: Phillies probably left Pedro in too long
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NEW YORK - Ninety-nine pitches. That was the pitch count when Pedro Martinez walked off the mound in the bottom of the sixth inning last night.
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Sam Donnellon: Phillies' Utley benefits from time off
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NEW YORK - The grind to his game is demonstrated most emphatically when it is not there. No one knows the toll the rest of this World Series will take on Chase Utley and his undisclosed hurts. All we know is that rest has been a great friend to him this time of the year.
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FOR EACH TOPIC this postseason, Charlie Manuel has a story, an anecdote, an allegory. So it was the other day when Ryan Howard's pre-at-bat meditation came up. Nothing unusual, Charlie insisted. See it all the time.
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