THINKS THE EAGLES STOLE ONE
Perhaps it is the burden of being the Eagles quarterback, perhaps it is the unique plight of Donovan McNabb, but whenever an issue emerges on the Philadelphia sports scene, no matter the sport, McNabb is asked to weigh in.
So, it came as no surprise when McNabb was asked about Jimmy Rollins' recent comments during the quarterback's news conference Monday at the NovaCare Complex.
You might have read elsewhere that Rollins called the fans "front-runners" and then later said the Phillies could benefit from more support and less booing.
Here was McNabb's take on the situation: “When a question is asked, you answer it and you try to answer it correctly. That’s the way he felt and he expressed that. Some people can’t take it; some people don’t understand what he’s talking about. He has never backed down from what he said. People laughed at him when he said they would win the NL East and then as the season continued on, everybody started getting excited about it. Jimmy is a good friend of mine; it’s sad that he has to go through something like this, but I’m sure he’ll pull himself out of it and they will get that win streak and hopefully be in the World Series.”
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.
