IS ON THE TRADE RUMOR TRAIL
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.
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.
