"No, but I'm better than I was," says the WYSP morning man, who is training for a tryout in about two weeks with the Philadelphia Union, the Major League Soccer team.
In Bonaduce's last athletic pursuit, earlier this year, he went three rounds in a boxing ring with Jose Canseco.
Bonaduce was inspired to go out after hitting it off with Union president Tom Veit. "I never played organized sports," Bonaduce told him. "Remember, when I was a kid, I was working for a living." (Bonaduce wanted to introduce his daughter, Countess Isabella Michaela Bonaduce, to the sport, but quickly gave up, he said. He drafted his then-next-door neighbor, Vivian Campbell, the Irish-born Def Leppard guitarist and a crackerjack footballer.)
The Union's John Hackworth has been working with Bonaduce. The WYSP Web site (www.wysp.com/union) now has it on video.
"I'm a 50-year-old chain-smoker," Bonaduce said. "All of them end with me hacking up black stuff."
Except for one clip - not yet posted - in which Bonaduce plays goalie. "I took a ball so hard to the face that everybody stopped what they were doing. All I saw was this big white flash."
The Keystone State Boychoir will perform Nov. 30 at the 50th-anniversary celebration of the signing of the Antarctic Treaty in Washington. The boys will do one better: Next month, while touring Chile, they will take a day trip to King George Island, Antarctica, to sing for scientists. That would be the seventh continent the choir has visited.
Free H1N1 shots? The Welcare Center, a new concierge medicine practice at 1108 N. Bethlehem Pike in Spring House (www.welcarecenter.com), has 250 vaccines to give out at 8 a.m. Tuesday.
As for NBC10 alums: Lori Delgado, who quit her anchor job last year, is a New York-based travel blogger at jetsetsmartblog.com, where she recounted recent trips to Puerto Rico and Iceland.
Restaurateur Stephen Starr retains not one but two outside companies to anonymously inspect his restaurants - and each company keeps tabs on the other, as Starr tells interviewer Larry Kane on tonight's Voice of Reason (9:30, Comcast Network). Kane grilled Starr, Audrey Taichman (who owns Audrey Claire and Twenty Manning), and me on the state of the restaurant industry.
People will pay for luxuries. On Monday, Mikuni Wild Harvest, a gourmet grocer in New York, got a shipment of prized white Alba truffles from Italy. Among the batch was a 1.1-pound monster that, according to Mikuni, was the largest specimen to land in the States this year. Mikuni videotaped it, posted it on YouTube, and e-mailed details to its high-end customers. After a brisk auction, Starr's Barclay Prime steak house on Rittenhouse Square outbid Daniel, a high-end eatery in Manhattan. The $4,100 fungus arrived in Philly on Tuesday, and chef Jim LoCascio has many truffle dinners ahead of him, as just a few crumbs go a long way. Starr has dug deep before. In 2001, while planning his Japanese eatery Morimoto, he bought a $10,000 freezer that can chill to 112 degrees below zero, and he put down $14,000 for a 300-pound bluefin. Chef Masaharu Morimoto cut it into Morimoto's first batch of sushi and sashimi.
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