Archive: July, 2009
Les Bowen, Daily News Staff Writer
With training camp nigh, Donovan McNabb has put aside his mourning of Michael Jackson to blog about his annual get-together with receivers, out on No. 5's home turf, in suburban Phoenix.
DMac doesn't give us any names or a lot of detail. And he could use an editor -- pretty sure he means "regimen" instead of "regiment," unless he has amassed several battalions, out there in the desert.
But it's good to hear the week in Arizona went well, and that the Thursday barbecue at Casa McNabb was catered -- Roxie has enough to do, with three youngsters, including those twins born last season, who ought to be crawling around, getting into everything by now.
Les Bowen, Daily News Staff Writer
Your Eagletarian has been away for awhile, recharging the batteries for training camp, which opens when rookies report to Lehigh on Sunday. Been kind of out of touch, trying to catch up. Doesn't look like we missed much.
Apparently, Michael Jackson died. Was there anything on TV about that?
The Eagles' landscape is remarkably quiet. On the team Web site discussion boards, a fan tried to work up a little hand-wringing over the fact that first-round pick Jeremy Maclin isn't signed yet. Site czar Dave Spadaro nipped that in the bud this morning with a quick assertion that "he should be signed before Sunday."
Daily News staff
Eagles training camp is less than 3 weeks away. The regular-season is 9 weeks and 3 days away. It’s Sept. 13 at Carolina at 1 p.m.
By the 10th game, when the Eagles are at the Bears, Eagles fans likely will know where there team stands in the NFC East race and playoffs chase. It likely will be a pivotal game as the Eagles’ playoffs hopes unfold.
It will be a huge game for Chicago native Donovan McNabb.
Daily News staff
This has to be good news for Eagles fans: Rookie tight end Cornelius Ingram reports that his surgically repaired left knee has had no problems during his summer training.
Ingram tore the ACL in a preseason workout last August and missed Florida’s national championship season. He then slid to the fifth round in the NFL draft because of concerns about the injury. The Eagles grabbed Ingram with the 153rd overall pick and he was instantly hailed as one of the “steals” of the draft.
Daily News staff
This is an Eagles blog, but any Philadelphia sports fan should be offended by the conclusions reached by the folks at Men's Health on this one ...
In its July/August issue, the magazine ranked the sports obsession levels of fans in cities around the country.
Philly was listed as No. 84. Yes, No. 84 and earned a grade of D-.
Marcus Hayes
When Tiger Woods jabs his tee into the turf this morning for the AT & T National pro-am in Bethesda, Md., he will be playing with Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo. First, Romo's current dish, deposed pop diva Jessica Simpson, will sing the national anthem.
Woods understands that inviting Romo, a passionate golfer, to Redskins territory might have been risky . . . if Romo was a sensitive sort.
"It's just going to be a fun round, but also an interesting one," Woods said. "He's used to getting booed."
