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The Eagles announced this morning that they have signed punter Ken Parrish and released rookie free agent kicker Sam Swank.
Parrish will presumably be the extra training camp leg to help take some of the burden off Sav Rocca.
Parrish (6-1, 210) spent the training camp and preseason with the 49ers in 2007 before being released before the start of the regular season.
A first-team, all-conference selection in both his junior and senior seasons at East Stroudsburg University, Parrish averaged 40.3 yards per punt and landed 59 of his 174 punts inside the 20-yard line during his 4-year college career.
He attended East Stroudsburg South High School, where he earned All-Mountain Valley Conference honors as a punter.
More from minicamp later.
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.
