FEELS A FLYERS VICTORY COMING ON
Peter King of Sports Illustrated is an eminent expert, much more eminent than your lowly Eagletarian. Still, he throws a lot of stuff out there; some of it is accurate, some of it he seems to be pulling straight out of his Starbucks-loving derriere.
I really hope this item he posted last night was the result of ingesting tainted soy milk in his latte, or something. In case you're too lazy to click the link, Peter thinks the Iggles are asking too much for Lito Sheppard and that Lito will still be an Eagle when the weekend ends.
Now, Lito is a fine fellow, but if you're a reporter scrambling to cover this endless saga, you can't be in favor of this.
If it meant bygones were bygones and the Eagles were going to adjust Lito's contract and commit to keeping him, sure, I could get behind that. But I'm pretty sure that isn't happening, that the Eagles would only be holding onto Lito until they got an offer they liked, next week, next month, or perhaps even later, after I give in to despair and fling myself into the Delaware from the top of the Walt Whitman Bridge.
Have pity, Eagles front office. I chased Lito rumors long into the night and woke up this morning feeling older than the Pistons. No trade? Just kill me now.
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.
E-mail Les at bowenl@phillynews.com
and follow
him on Twitter.
Paul
Domowitch has been with the Daily News since 1982.
He has spent most of his nearly 3 decades with 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 started his career in Texas,
working first for the Midland Reporter-Telegram (1976-78), and then for
the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, where he covered some god-awful Texas
Ranger baseball teams. His first beat at the Daily News actually was
boxing, which he covered just long enough to lose 2 sports coats to
blood spatter before moving on to football. Domo and his wife Shelley,
a University of Oklahoma grad who still hasn’t gotten over
that Fiesta Bowl loss to Boise State 5 years ago, have 2 terrific
daughters -- Allison, 28, who is an attorney in South Jersey, and Amy,
25, who works in administration for a professional baseball team.
E-mail Domo at PDomo@aol.com and follow
him on Twitter.
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