THINKS THE EAGLES STOLE ONE
Cornelius Ingram was back on the field for the final day of Eagles rookie camp, wearing a black elastic sleeve on his bruised left knee but otherwise showing no ill effects from Wednesday's collision with safety Rashad Baker.
"I felt good after treatment, so I definitely wanted to go out and do something," said Ingram, a tight end who has looked like a fifth-round find in the early going. Ingram dropped in the draft because he missed last season following left ACL surgery. "The swelling went down a lot. I just wanted to come out and be with the team again ... At the beginning of practice, it was a little stiff, but once I started to sweat, we got going a lot more, it became more comfortable.
"I'll be honest, I was a little scared (to get hit in the same knee he had just finished rehabbing), but once I got up, the pain started to ease away a little bit. I went to the doctor (Thursday) morning and everything looked fine, so I'm out here today running around."
The Eagles return to NovaCare Tuesday, when full-team OTAs (otherwise known as minicamp) begin that will carry through the following week. Then the team breaks until training camp commences at Lehigh July 26.
The highlight of Friday's session probably was a leaping red zone catch by sixth-round wideout Brandon Gibson, who hauled in an A.J. Feeley offering that was overthrown in the face of a mock blitz. (The defenders can't tackle Feeley, but if they arrive before he lets go of the ball, the play is blown dead.)
The only other news was a Donovan McNabb NovaCare sighting, which wasn't too shocking, since he plays for the Eagles and all. McNabb presumably will take the field with the rest of the team Tuesday. No word on whether he plans to speak or blog or scratch messages in the turf during the OTA.
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.
