Phil Sheridan

Phil Sheridan became an Inquirer sports columnist after covering the Eagles for seven years. He brings a seasoned and reasoned point of view to a landscape of frustrated fans. But Sheridan knows where they're coming from, being a Philadelphia native and a graduate of Temple University.

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Phil Sheridan GM's options on Sixers limited - 07/01/2009: By Phil Sheridan, Inquirer Columnist

It seems funny but sad now that the Los Angeles Clippers were ticked off last July when the 76ers lured free agent Elton Brand away with an $80 million contract. The Clips thought they had Brand's word he would re-sign with them.
Phil Sheridan Phils showing less cool and more fire - 06/29/2009: By Phil Sheridan, Inquirer Columnist

Along with a numbing series of baseball games, the Phillies may have lost something they needed to lose on this road trip.
Phil Sheridan U.S. soccer victory has New Jersey roots - 06/25/2009: By Phil Sheridan, Inquirer Columnist

Scott Bradley was behind the plate in 1990, when Seattle Mariners teammate Randy Johnson pitched his first no-hitter. Johnson endured the tense ninth inning, when he faced Detroit's fourth, fifth, and sixth hitters - Cecil Fielder, Chet Lemon, Mike Heath - to complete the feat.
Phil Sheridan Fehr's legacy: More money, less ethics - 06/23/2009: By Phil Sheridan, Inquirer Columnist

Maybe the best way to explain Donald Fehr is that he was very good, maybe even too good, at his job. It's just that he could not or would not grasp what his job could have and should have been.
Phil Sheridan Phils showing how hard it is to repeat - 06/22/2009: By Phil Sheridan, Inquirer Columnist

As the Phillies staggered through a horrific homestand - bad baseball interrupted by players in the emergency room and on the disabled list - a small voice in the back of your mind grew louder and more shrill:
Phil Sheridan: In a world of show, Papa's dignity was real - 06/21/2009: By Phil Sheridan, Inquirer Columnist

In a very real sense, it was Gary Papa's job to be taken for granted. He was supposed to be there, always, when you flicked on the Channel 6 news to catch up on the day's events and weather and sports news. He was supposed to be there along with Jim Gardner and Dave Roberts, and was supposed to look and sound the same, night after night, year after year, decade after decade.
Phil Sheridan Manuel, McNabb hardly out of their league - 06/18/2009: By Phil Sheridan, Inquirer Columnist

Maybe the motivation was to get out of the office for a day. Whatever the reason, thousands of them streamed from the parking lots into the Wachovia Center yesterday to get pumped up by Zig Ziglar and Steve Forbes, Colin Powell and Rudy Giuliani. Oh, yes. And Charlie Manuel and Donovan McNabb.
Phil Sheridan New NFL union chief presses his case - 06/16/2009: By Phil Sheridan, Inquirer Columnist

The NFL Players Association was smart to choose a David-sized executive director to replace Hall of Fame lineman Gene Upshaw. The looming battle with the gargantuan and heavily fortified NFL might be won with a well-aimed stone.
Phil Sheridan: Now it's McNabb's turn to do right thing - 06/13/2009: By Phil Sheridan, Inquirer Columnist

The Eagles did the right thing by Donovan McNabb. Now it's up to McNabb to do the right thing by the Eagles. To his credit, the franchise quarterback fully grasps what that right thing is.
Phil Sheridan Advantage, Phillies, in big rivalry - 06/09/2009: By Phil Sheridan, Inquirer Columnist

Not so long ago, it was a pretty good baseball argument: Phillies or Mets? Ryan Howard, Jimmy Rollins, and Chase Utley or David Wright, Carlos Delgado, and Jose Reyes?