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Don McKee, Inquirer Sports Writer
Less than three years removed from the NFC title game, Donovan McNabb looks more and more like a guy who’s at the end of the line.
SI.com’s Don Banks said McNabb's massive fade is the worst he can recall.
“Has anyone in recent memory suddenly lost more luster off their resume than McNabb, who put up a statistical line in San Diego that seemed like it had to be a typo?" Banks asked on Tuesday.
Don McKee, Inquirer Sports Writer
With Labor Day out of the way, the kids back to school, and the Phillies on hold until October, the pro football season is finally front and center.
Mark Herzlich and Pat Devlin have found places in the NFL and Herzlich will be on the active roster when the New York Giants tee it up against the Washington Redskins on Sunday at FedExField in Landover, Md.
But the Giants have been making more news about who’s not available than who is — the team announced Tuesday that linebacker Jonathan Goff will miss the season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament.
Goff, in his fourth season out of Vanderbilt, suffered the injury during Monday’s practice. He had 80 tackles and one sack last season, as the Giants finished 10-6.
Don McKee, Inquirer Sports Writer
Three nationally reknowned college basketball coaches who have their roots in the Delaware Valley, have been selected as recipients of the fourth annual Lapchick Character Award, one of the newer but more prestigious honors for college basketball coaches.
Fabled former Princeton coach Pete Carril, and equally well-known Mount St. Mary's coach Jim Phelan, and Virginia women's coach Debbie Ryan will be honored at a luncheon at Madison Square Garden on Nov. 17, it was announced Thursday.
Carril, still coaching at the age of 81 (he's an assistant with the Sacramento Kings), played for Bethlehem Liberty High and at Lafayette College. He coached at Easton High and Reading High, before spending a year at Lehigh, then moving to a nationally prominent tenure at Princeton. In 29 years, he compiled a 514-261 (.658 winning percentage) record, the best of any coach in Ivy League basketball history.
Don McKee, Inquirer Sports Writer
Glad to see the U.S. and Mexican national teams conformed to the official score of MLS, 1-1. Might as well have everyone on the same page.
THE POCONO 400? There was a time when running 500 miles separated the men from the boys in NASCAR. Now, it seems, the good ole’ boys in the stands and in the driver’s seat want to call it a day after 400. Shameful!
When Pocono announced it would cut back both of its NASCAR events to 400 miles, track officials said it was the long-stated wish of both fans and drivers.
