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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Sam Donnellon: Please don't use this criteria in trade McNabb campaign
Posted 02/05/2010
HAVE SOME fun. That's all John Brenkus wants you to do with the quarterback analysis he presents as part of his latest "Sport Science" segment on ESPN tonight.
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Sam Donnellon: Braves, Indians not the best role models for Phillies
Posted 02/03/2010
IN EXPLAINING why he traded Cliff Lee, Ruben Amaro Jr. often explains that he can't do business like the Yankees. The other day, Charlie Manuel explained it through the model used by the Braves in winning 14 straight division titles.
 
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Sam Donnellon: Philly's in a warming trend over No. 2 Villanova - 02/02/2010
THEY HAVE a coach who embraces the city's traditions and a recent history of guards both talented and tough. They have a couple of local kids in senior Reggie Redding and freshman Maalik Wayns who have made good. They play team basketball, play hard on both ends of the court and, at least publicly, disdain personal acclaim.
 
Sam Donnellon: Baver, Reutter: Bumper crop of U.S. speedskaters - 01/29/2010
IT'S ALL THERE on YouTube for you to judge. Did American speedskater Katherine Reutter purposefully bump teammate Allison Baver off her feet as Baver tried to pass her during a 1,500-meter short-track race last February?
 
Sam Donnellon: If Bud Selig says it, it must be true - 01/28/2010
SO, MARK McGWIRE has saved baseball. Again. That's how it has been laid out for us, anyway. McGwire's belated confession of steroid use, complete with crocodile tears and face-saving disclaimers, has served as a sort of holy water, ending baseball's era of performance-enhancing drugs, hearkening yet another new fresh start for the game.
 
Sam Donnellon: Rest may be best for Phillies second baseman Utley - 01/26/2010
Chase Utley has always wanted in no matter how badly he felt, no matter how poorly he was hitting, no matter what the grind might do to him in the long run. But the idea of getting him some backup always seems like a good idea this time of the year.
 
Sam Donnellon: Former coach Hitchcock supports Flyers captain Richards - 01/20/2010
YOU JUST couldn't resist, could you, Hitch? You couldn't just gush about Mike Richards before the game, call him a great player and a great captain, and stop right there.
 
Sam Donnellon: Villanova's Reynolds excelling in efficiency department - 01/18/2010
THERE WAS BUZZ and there was banging, two teams hitting the floor and hitting each other as if involved in a seventh game, 20,016 reacting to each play as if that was the case, too.
 
Sam Donnellon: For Sixers' Dalembert, head in the game, heart in Haiti - 01/14/2010
HE BEGAN punching numbers on his phone when the first awful report reached his ears. Earthquake. Haiti. Tens of thousands feared dead.
 
Sam Donnellon: Eagles' condition is stable, no signs of improving - 01/12/2010
WE DANCED the dance again yesterday, us asking about the past and the future, Andy Reid repeatedly responding that he "wasn't going to go there." One last time this season, over 24 minutes, we asked questions we knew would be answered incompletely or not at all, and one last time I walked away questioning if the greater Achilles' is the quarterback who may or may not come back, or the head coach who most definitely will.
 
Sam Donnellon: Eagles' Sheldon Brown doesn't know what to expect in offseason - 01/11/2010
ON DAY 1 of the 2010 offseason, Sheldon Brown picked up where he left off in the beginning of the 2009 offseason.
 
Sam Donnellon: How point-spread gurus see Eagles-Cowboys matchup - 01/08/2010
WHEN THE EAGLES kicked off to the Dallas Cowboys last Sunday, they did so as three-point underdogs. In reaching this number, oddsmakers factored in homefield advantage, a four-point Dallas victory in Philadelphia earlier this season,
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Sam Donnellon: Hockey should share wealth, like baseball - 01/07/2010
 
Sam Donnellon: Eagles hope time is still on McNabb's side - 01/06/2010
 
Sam Donnellon: Was Flyers-Bruins a 'Classic,' or just an outdoor game? - 01/02/2010
 
Sam Donnellon: Broncos' Dawkins still a favorite with Eagles fans - 12/28/2009
 
Sam Donnellon: Reid between the lines: Eagles miss Dawkins - 12/22/2009
 
Sam Donnellon: Eagles flash 1-2 punch against 49ers - 12/21/2009
 
Sam Donnellon: Bottom line for Eagles: Defense must improve - 12/18/2009
 
Sam Donnellon: Halladay's 9-year-old son a Philly kind of kid - 12/17/2009


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