Friday, April 5, 2013
Friday, April 5, 2013

POSTED: Thursday, April 4, 2013, 11:38 AM

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Filed Under: Men's Basketball
POSTED: Wednesday, April 3, 2013, 1:34 PM
Vaux guard Rysheed Jordan, right, drive home a basket against Johnsburg's Mitch Holmberg in the final minute of play of the Class A Boy's PIAA Championship Friday, March 22, 2013 in Hershey, Pa. (Bradley C Bower/ Staff Photogapher)

Temple target Rysheed Jordan is the winner of the sixth annual Phoenix Award.

The Phoenix Club of Philadelphia was created in 2008 by Michael Horsey, a local certified public accountant, to recognize the most outstanding senior basketball player in the Public League.

Jordan, a 6-foot-4 point guard at Roberts Vaux High School, averaged 24.8 points, 6.1 rebounds, 4.3 assists and 3.3 steals. He also made 53 three-pointers while leading Vaux to the PIAA Class A state championship.

Filed Under: Men's Basketball
POSTED: Tuesday, April 2, 2013, 5:53 AM

Khalif Wyatt, a senior guard at Temple, received Associated Press all-America honorable mention on Monday.

The 6-foot-4, 210-pounder  is the Atlantic Ten Conference player of the year. He was also named an all-district selection by both the USBWA and NABC.

Wyatt averaged a conference-leading 20.5 points and scored 30 or more points on seven occasions this season. The Norristown native concluded his career with back-to-back 31-point performances in the second and third round of the NCAA tournament.

Filed Under: Men's Basketball
POSTED: Friday, March 29, 2013, 8:12 PM

Temple standout Khalif Wyatt will participate in the Portsmouth Invitational Tournament.

The annual event, which showcases 64 of the nation’s top college seniors, will be held at Churchland High School in Portsmouth, Va. on April 10-13. The PIT provides players an opportunity to display their skills in front of representatives from all 30 NBA franchises and overseas professional teams.

 Butler’s Rotnei Clark, Kansas’ Travis Releford, Arizona’s Mark Lyons and Notre Dame’s Jack Cooley are some of the other top players scheduled to participate in the event.

Filed Under: Football
POSTED: Friday, March 29, 2013, 2:44 PM

Fifth-year senior defensive lineman Shahid Paulhill, who was expected to start  this season, is no longer a member of Temple’s football team.         

“Shahid has decided not to come back for a fifth year,” coach Matt Rhule said.

Rhule was asked if Paulhill is gone for disciplinary reasons.

Filed Under: Football
POSTED: Friday, March 29, 2013, 1:14 PM

The Kevin Newsome experiment is on hold.

The Temple senior, who was moved from quarterback to h-back last week, will miss most of this spring's drills with a shoulder injury.

The 6-foot-2, 231-pounder sprained his AC joint after hauling in a pass on March 23.

POSTED: Thursday, March 28, 2013, 12:11 AM

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Filed Under: Football
POSTED: Wednesday, March 27, 2013, 8:02 AM

Mark Ellis, a cornerback at Williamstown High, was named the top junior prospect at the Roman’s Soldiers Showcase on Sunday in Randolph, N.J.

The 5-foot-10, 176-pounder, who is interested in Temple and Rutgers, showed that he’s back to his old form after missing the 2012 season due to suffering an ACL injury last spring at the VTO/Rivals Elite 100 Combine.

Ellis also named  the top cover man, regardless of class, at Roman’s event. He constantly shadowed receivers and broke up several passes during the one-on-one drills.


Filed Under: Football
POSTED: Tuesday, March 26, 2013, 9:15 PM

Do you want a good laugh? Check out the Temple's football coaching staff's spring olympic games.

It's ovbious that some of the staff members can't move like they used. But there is a few that look like they can still play a few snaps.


POSTED: Tuesday, March 26, 2013, 5:44 PM
Temple guard T.J. DiLeo. (David Maialetti/Staff Photographer)

T. J. DiLeo, a graduate student at Temple, was named the South Jersey Major College Player of the Year by the Albert J. Carino Boys Basketball Club on Tuesday.

The Cinnaminson native averaged 2.9 points, 1.9 rebounds and 19 minutes this season as a reserve guard. DiLeo also had 56 assists, while committing just 14 turnovers. And he was regarded as Temple’s top perimeter defender.

About this blog
Keith Pompey has been an Inquirer reporter since September 2004. He began covering the Temple men's basketball team in November 2010 and Temple football in August 2011. Pompey previously covered the Penn and Drexel men's basketball teams after initially focusing on high school sports.

Pompey is a native Philadelphian and a University of Pittsburgh graduate. Follow him on Twitter @pompeysgridlock. Reach Keith at kpompey@phillynews.com.

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