PREFERS TEMPLE'S OFFENSE TO PRINCETON'S
Shawn Andrews, who has said he is absent from Eagles training camp because of clinical depression, has gotten the OK from his therapist in Little Rock, Ark., to join the team, a source close to the situation said Friday. The Eagles play in Pittsburgh Friday night and are off Saturday, so Andrews' first workout with his teammates could be Sunday at Lehigh.
Andrews, 25, told the Daily News on Monday that he has been taking medication for depression and has started to feel better. He pegged his return to a Thursday visit with the doctor who has been treating him, and Friday, a source close to Andrews said that visit went well.
Meanwhile, there is still no announcement of the Brian Westbrook contract reworking that is believed to be close to completion. Provisions in the collective bargaining agreement limiting what the Eagles can do for Westbrook have presented formidable hurdles. Reports Friday afternoon that the NFL refused to approve some of the language in the revamped deal --- presumably, language dealing with the attempts to surmount those hurdles -- could not be verified at the time of this posting.
Les Bowen has covered the Eagles for the Daily News since 2002. Before that, he spent nearly 13 years covering the Flyers. It took Les only a few seasons after the switch to figure out that there was no penalty box at the Linc, and that the time really wasn't his, despite what Andy Reid kept saying. Les came to Philadelphia and the Daily News from Charlotte in 1983. In the intervening years, he has pretty much lost track of NASCAR, and his accent. He, his wife Barbara, and their two sons live in Haddon Township, New Jersey.
Paul Domowitch has been with the Daily News since 1982. He has spent most of his 27 years at the paper covering the Eagles and pro football. For the last 10 years, he’s been a selector for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. A native of Wilkes-Barre and a graduate of Wilkes University, Domo came to the Daily News from the Fort Worth (Tx.) Star-Telegram, where he covered some god-awful Texas Ranger baseball teams. His first beat at the Daily News actually wa s boxing, which he covered just long enough to lose two sports coats to blood spatter before moving on to football. Domo and his wife Shelley, a University of Oklahoma grad and very dangerous to be around following a Sooner loss, have been married 29 years and have raised 2 terrific daughters – Allison, 26, a lawyer and graduate of Boston University School of Law; and Amy, 23, who graduated from Clemson and works in marketing and sales for a professional baseball team.
