TRUSTS CHOOCH IN A PINCH
As we told you last week, new Eagles cornerback Ellis Hobbs was heading back to Iowa State for graduation day after finishing the degree that he promised his mother he would get.
Hobbs was among 2,500 students who took part in the ceremony Saturday in Ames, Iowa.
"I think it’s just about finishing," Hobbs said. "Finishing something you start, I always try to do that, no matter what. I made a promise to my mother a long time ago, that was the one thing she was concerned about even before the NFL, before the draft. She said 'Promise me you’ll get your degree, promise me you’ll walk.' Even as busy as I am, I made a promise to her. I think it’s just to make my family proud. The first-born graduating, it’s a good moment right now."
Here is more from Hobbs in a Q&A he did with the school's Web site, gocyclones.com
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.
E-mail Les at bowenl@phillynews.com
and follow
him on Twitter.
Paul
Domowitch has been with the Daily News since 1982.
He has spent most of his nearly 3 decades with 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 started his career in Texas,
working first for the Midland Reporter-Telegram (1976-78), and then for
the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, where he covered some god-awful Texas
Ranger baseball teams. His first beat at the Daily News actually was
boxing, which he covered just long enough to lose 2 sports coats to
blood spatter before moving on to football. Domo and his wife Shelley,
a University of Oklahoma grad who still hasn’t gotten over
that Fiesta Bowl loss to Boise State 5 years ago, have 2 terrific
daughters -- Allison, 28, who is an attorney in South Jersey, and Amy,
25, who works in administration for a professional baseball team.
E-mail Domo at PDomo@aol.com and follow
him on Twitter.
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