The Philadelphia Daily News (Philadelphia, PA) articles from August 2006

The Philadelphia Daily News (Philadelphia, PA) archives from August 2006

Good & plenty deck: Our Sexy Single guys are the best of the best.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Byline W Jenice M. Armstrong Aug. 1--AND THEY say there're no good men left in Philly. We found plenty. How do you like 'em, ladies? Educated and intellectual? Or brawny and a little rough around the edges? Or do you do you...

Philadelphia Daily News Dan Gross column: Hearing in grope lawsuit.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Dan Gross Aug. 1--A HEARING DATE is scheduled today in the federal court matter of two Delaware County women who sued the Borgata after allegedly being sexually and physically assaulted by a casino patron in a hotel parking lot in...

Ondrasik ups the passion in 'Two'.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Jonathan Takiff Aug. 1--Guys grabbed much of my attention in this week's new releases pile. While hiding behind the group moniker Five For Fighting,there's no mistaking the sweet, high-pitched voice and richly melodic anthems...

Wrong brother is in prison, judge is told.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Theresa Conroy Aug. 1--Soft spoken and emotionless, the accomplice in a 30-year-old murder case yesterday told a judge that his convicted co-defendant had nothing to do with the crime. June O'Bryant testified that Kevin...

Schools to lose 31 'experienced' cops.
August 1, 2006... Byline: David Gambacorta Aug. 1--The School District of Philadelphia will pull 31 full-time school cops from elementary and middle schools and shift them to mobile rapid response teams, officials said last night. School district...

Cops offer reward in May slaying of pizza deliveryman.
August 1, 2006... Byline: David Gambacorta Aug. 1--Jermaine Frazier was an Army Reservist, the father of a baby girl and, when he found the time, a part-time pizza deliveryman. He lost his life because the latter. Police said Frazier was shot to death...

Slaying seemed 'like a movie': Girlfriend: Diner victim fell 'so slowly'.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Regina Medina Aug. 1--Justice. That's all Gladys Villalobos wants for her slain boyfriend and the father of her toddler son. Cesar Reyes, 32, was killed Saturday inside the Aramingo Diner - in front of Villalobos and his...

48 at housing agencies get pink slips: $8M shortfall in fed funds forces cuts.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Mark Mcdonald Aug. 1--Facing an almost $8 million shortfall in federal housing aid, the Street administration is laying off 48 employees from two housing agencies. Seventeen employees in the Philadelphia Housing Development...

Dem chairman known as 'a unifier'.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Dave Davies Aug. 1--Is there room in next year's Democratic mayoral primary for a seventh candidate? The message outside the Four Seasons Hotel yesterday couldn't have been clearer, hung in huge letters over a 40-foot...

Nothing cool about Philly for most of this week.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Tom Schmidt Aug. 1--If you don't like the weather in Philly, then wait three days. That's when a cool front is expected to move into the area and drop high temperatures into the mid-80s. Until then, the wicked heat wave...

City's biggest big shots meet to address violence.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Mark Mcdonald Aug. 1--There they were, a good 20 power brokers, sitting around the table in the Mayor's Reception Room in City Hall, their staff members seated in a gallery nearby. There were Cardinal Justin Rigali, House...

ATF yanks shop's gun license.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Kitty Caparella Aug. 1--Just two minutes - or three-quarters of a mile outside West Philadelphia - guns were easy to purchase from Lou's Loans of Upper Darby, Inc. Apparently too easy - especially for straw buyers and gun...

2 Wilmington men charged in assaults: Port Richmond case has a 3rd suspect.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Christine Olley Aug. 1--Cops said the creeps came up from Delaware and frequented the Philly club scene. They stalked their prey and waited for the right moment to pounce on unsuspecting victims on their way home from a night...

Philadelphia Daily News Elmer Smith column: The prison problem: We've been here before.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Elmer Smith Aug. 1--WE'VE BEEN HERE before. We've seen our prisons so jammed that untried detainees were sleeping on concrete floors in crowded holding cells, under unsanitary conditions, without access to lawyers. No, it's not...

Philadelphia Daily News Ronnie Polaneczky column: Boy Scouts in a jam - this calls for a merit badge!
August 1, 2006... Byline: Ronnie Polaneczky Aug. 1--I THINK THE Boy Scout's Cradle of Liberty Council needs a new merit badge: the Weasel Badge! It would be awarded to Scouts who act in opposition to admirable qualities, like honor, that the Council...

EDITORIAL: Rethink Parolee Searches.(Editorial)
August 1, 2006... Aug. 1--ALLOWING THE POLICE to detain and search parolees without probable cause might seem a logical tool in fighting the city's homicide crisis. Commissioner Sylvester Johnson thinks so, pointing to the fact that 81 percent of murder...

EDITORIAL: On Camera.(Editorial)
August 1, 2006... Aug. 1--AND SPEAKING of civil liberties... The first two neighborhood video-surveillance cameras went on line last week at 7th Street and Girard Avenue in North Philadelphia. While we've supported City Councilman Darrell Clarke's...

Cops, FBI snag rented truck with 540 lbs. of pot.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Simone Weichselbaum Aug. 1--Two men steered a rental truck along Girard Avenue Friday, unaware that cops were watching their every movement. Police said the pair were transporting 10 54-pound bundles of marijuana, worth $2.4...

Phils look ahead after shake-up.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Marcus Hayes Aug. 1--AS SOON AS the shake-up began, the mood in the Phillies' clubhouse changed. Yesterday's 15-2 loss to the Marlins notwithstanding, the Phillies registered some of their best pitching, hitting and defense of...

Delahanty had legendary career, as well as a legendary demise.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Ed Barkowitz Aug. 1--No matter how many games Chase Utley's hitting streak reaches, his legend will never reach that of Ed Delahanty. At least, Utley better hope not. Delahanty, whom Utley passed yesterday on the Phillies'...

Philadelphia Daily News Rich Hofmann column: Pitching is their biggest problem.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Rich Hofmann Aug. 1--WHEN THE FLY BALL in the fifth inning was lost in the sun by rightfielder David Dellucci, ricocheting off his forearm for a double, the crowd reaction at Citizens Bank Park was more of a dispirited groan...

Cormier deal next step of Phillies' purge.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Marcus Hayes Aug. 1--THE PURGE ended with only minor bloodletting. The Phillies finished Phase One of their reorganization yesterday when they shipped veteran lefthanded reliever Rheal Cormier to the Reds for Triple A...

Rookie Gaither shows he is a quick learner.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Les Bowen Aug. 1--BETHLEHEM - The Eagles' defense is complicated, especially for linebackers. But Omar Gaither, one of the early training-camp standouts, hasn't let himself get snowed under. "It's repetition, and staying up at...

D-line showing early dominance.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Les Bowen Aug. 1--BETHLEHEM - Looks as if the hitters are ahead of the pitchers so far in Eagles training camp. Pessimists will say that must be because the pitchers - the offensive players - aren't very good. Optimists will...

Philadelphia Daily News Bernard Fernandez column: Bio says he was born in Tanzania, but he is really a Philly guy.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Bernard Fernandez Aug. 1--IT IS AN unfortunate commentary that many Americans can't locate Iraq on a map. Some aren't even quite sure where Canada and Mexico are. In one of his periodic "Jaywalking" segments, late-night talk...

Union fights city's appeal of contract: Arbitration award raised firefighters' pay 10%.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Mark Mcdonald Aug. 1--The president of the city Firefighters union yesterday vowed to "use every means at our disposal" to oppose the Street administration's appeal of an arbitration award that gave 2,400 firefighters a three-year...

Abreu basks in the glow of Day 1 with New York.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Marcus Hayes NEW YORK _ Perhaps one day soon Bobby Abreu will sink into the relative anonymity that he seems to relish. Tuesday was not that day. He was the centerpiece of the trade that sent four minor leaguers to...

Vallas: Schools will be safe.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Mensah M. Dean Aug. 1--Schools CEO Paul Vallas yesterday vehemently denied that some schools will become unsafe this fall as a result of his plan to move 31 veteran school police officers from their schools to roving rapid response...

Teddy Atlas shrug as a boxing commentator? No way.
August 2, 2006... Byline: Stan Hochman PHILADELPHIA _ At the fights, Teddy Atlas bares more than the round-card girls. At the fights, if CompuBox had a column for punches pulled, there'd be a big, fat zero under Atlas' name. At the fights, Atlas is...

Philadelphia Daily News Ellen Gray column.
August 2, 2006... Byline: Ellen Gray Aug. 2--For the past few weeks, I've been living in a bubble. Other than the world's largest celebrity petting zoo, that's the best way I can describe the few weeks I spend twice a year on the West Coast attending...

Publisher Natoli leaving News, Inquirer.
August 2, 2006... Byline: Dave Davies Aug. 2--Joe Natoli, publisher of the Daily News, Inquirer, and Philly.com, is leaving to become a vice president at the University of Miami. Natoli cited interest in a new career challenge and personal reasons for...

Philadelphia Daily News Dan Gross column: Mel's good Jewish friend.
August 2, 2006... Byline: Dan Gross Aug. 2--WE WERE surprised to read about Mel Gibson's severely anti-Semitic remarks made after his arrest on drunken driving charges last weekend in Malibu. The guy has Jewish friends. Well, at least one - the...

Philadelphia Daily News Plugged In column: New camera takes you off shaky ground.
August 2, 2006... Byline: Jonathan Takiff Aug. 2--THE GIZMO: Fujifilm Finepix digital still cameras; new guns for the HD wars. Don't you hate out-of-focus pictures? Blurring often results in low light or high-speed action shooting, where the...

Evelyn R. Conway, music was her life.
August 2, 2006... Byline: John F. Morrison Aug. 2--IT WAS A struggle for young Evelyn Jackson to learn to play the piano. She was a child prodigy who could play by ear, but because her father died when she was 9, her mother couldn't afford to pay for...

Group asks U.S. judge to rebuff archdiocese.
August 2, 2006... Byline: Michael Hinkelman Aug. 2--A dozen people who are suing the Archdiocese of Philadelphia yestersday asked a federal judge to turn aside the archdiocese's request to dismiss a class-action lawsuit filed against it and its current and...

Coping in a kiln, any way we can: Heat not a record, but brace for today.
August 2, 2006... Byline: Christine Olley Aug. 2--Is this heat making you a little hot under the collar? Don't get bent out of shape yet because forecasters expect it to get even hotter today and tomorrow. Don't expect a break from the sweltering heat...

5 cops injured in police-car collision.
August 2, 2006... Byline: David Gambacorta Aug. 2--Five police officers were hospitalized with injuries last night after an old police cruiser and a shiny new Highway Patrol car collided in Nicetown. Officials from the police Accident Investigation...

FORGOTTEN : D.A. put him in jail to assure his testimony.
August 2, 2006... Byline: Theresa Conroy Aug. 2--KORVEL ODD was in the Twilight Zone. For two months, from mid-November 2004 to mid-January 2005, Odd languished in the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility, trying to figure out why he was there, and...

Philadelphia Daily News Jill Porter column: This man has the answer to our gun woes.
August 2, 2006... Byline: Jill Porter Aug. 2--BRYAN MILLER was cooking Thanksgiving dinner at home 12 years ago when he got the phone call that would irrevocably alter the course of his life. It was his sister. She had news of his younger brother, Mike....

Ready to set fire, robbers get zippo.
August 2, 2006... Byline: David Gambacorta Aug. 2--While the temperatures outside reached dizzying highs yesterday, police said two would-be crooks threatened to turn up the heat on a West Philadelphia cashier. The two thugs, sporting dark jeans, black...

Army recruiters deny 3 hopefuls: Trio violated 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'.
August 2, 2006... Byline: Regina Medina Aug. 2--Three openly gay applicants were rejected by a local military recruiting center yesterday because they are "morally and administratively ineligible," one applicant said. "Our applications were denied. ...

Judge cleared in campaign probe.
August 2, 2006... Byline: Tom Schmidt Aug. 2--A complaint alleging that Municipal Judge James M. DeLeon engaged in prohibited campaign conduct during his 2003 bid for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has been dismissed by the Court of Judicial Discipline. ...

Green's Romanelli has signatures for Senate bid.
August 2, 2006... Byline: Catherine Lucey Aug. 2--It looks like the battle between Rick Santorum and Bob Casey for the U.S. Senate may have a late addition. The Green Party turned in roughly 90,000 signatures in Harrisburg yesterday in an effort to get...

Philadelphia Daily News John Smallwood column: Soccer could find a comfortable niche in this region.
August 2, 2006... Byline: John Smallwood Aug. 2--I LOVE SOCCER, but I'm not naive enough to think that most Philadelphia sports fans are jumping for joy at the prospect of Major League Soccer possibly coming to the area. In fact, I'd wager that most...

EDITORIAL: Macy's: Want To Know The Real Way To Shop?: OUR TEN COMMANDMENTS FOR 21st CENTURY RETAILING.(Editorial)
August 2, 2006... Aug. 2--THIS MORNING, with the grand opening of Macy's, Center City's long retail drought is over. Well, it wasn't so long, in real terms: Both Lord & Taylor, which until recently occupied the same space in the old Wanamaker's, and the...

YANKSGIVING DAY: Former Phillie Abreu basks in glow of Day 1 with New York.
August 2, 2006... Byline: Marcus Hayes Aug. 2--NEW YORK - Maybe one day soon Bobby Abreu will sink into the relative anonymity that he seems to relish. Yesterday was not that day. He was the centerpiece of the trade that sent four minor leaguers to...

Injuries made Stocker's career come up short after Abreu deal.
August 2, 2006... Byline: Ed Barkowitz Aug. 2--It appeared to be just another innocuous baseball trade. On Nov. 18, 1997, the Phillies, coming off a 68-94 season, dealt shortstop Kevin Stocker to Tampa Bay for Bobby Abreu, the Houston Astros outfielder...

Mathieson makes pitch for rotation.
August 2, 2006... Byline: Paul Hagen Aug. 2--ST. LOUIS - With Bobby Abreu, Cory Lidle, Rheal Cormier, David Bell, Ryan Franklin and Sal Fasano expunged from the roster in the days leading up to the trading deadline - and with the possibility of waiver deals...

Rhodes fires back at 'scab' Lidle.
August 2, 2006... Byline: Paul Hagen Aug. 2--ST. LOUIS - Cory Lidle backed off. Arthur Rhodes didn't. Lidle ignited the controversy by saying "sometimes it seemed like winning didn't matter at all" to the Phillies in a conference call with New York...

Burrell nixed deal to Orioles, sources say.
August 2, 2006... Byline: Paul Hagen Aug. 2--ST. LOUIS - What if Pat Burrell had been traded to the Orioles? According to multiple sources, the Phillies had a deal in place (possibly for pitcher Rodrigo Lopez) that would have sent the leftfielder to...

Gaffney still feeling his way.
August 2, 2006... Byline: Les Bowen Aug. 2--BETHLEHEM - The Eagles' wideouts are an interesting bunch right now. You've probably heard that no one on the field at Lehigh is blazing past the secondary, making fans gasp. There are players who can command...

Birds do whatever they can to beat the heat at practice.
August 2, 2006... Byline: Les Bowen Aug. 2--BETHLEHEM - How hot was it? The dark, green hills flanking the Eagles' practice fields seemed to sag toward the horizon, weighted by humidity that pushed the "heat index" to 107 degrees, by the time the Birds'...

Paterno has healthy attitude for season.
August 2, 2006... Byline: Bernard Fernandez Aug. 2--CHICAGO - You might think that someone who has been to the summit of coaching's Mount Olympus wouldn't find a glorified foothill much of a challenge. But Penn State legend Joe Paterno is 79, and Mount...

Fitzgerald moves forward at grieving Northwestern.
August 2, 2006... Byline: Bernard Fernandez Aug. 2--CHICAGO - Pat Fitzgerald still looks like he should be buckling the chin strap of a helmet rather than wearing a coach's headset on the sideline. And why not? At 31, Northwestern's rookie head coach is 5...

First time is the charm as reader wins $1,000.
August 2, 2006... Byline: Bob Cooney Aug. 2--The Serviolo girls of South Philly, mom Donna and daughter Mallory, are a little tough to convince. When a lucky Daily News sports employee called the Serviolo home last night to inform them that Donna had...

Mtagwa defeats Brown, sets sights on Litzau next.
August 2, 2006... Byline: Bernard Fernandez PHILADELPHIA _ The plan was for Rogers Mtagwa to use his jab more, to go to the body, tire Alvin Brown down and maybe close the deal down the stretch of the scheduled 12-round bout at the New Alhambra on Wednesday...

Grumpy old man? Bednarik's peace summit includes White barb.
August 3, 2006... Byline: Rich Hofmann BETHLEHEM, Pa. _ There are some things that even heat like Wednesday's will not melt. So Chuck Bednarik, age 81, stood there after the Eagles practiced and continued to project all of the pains and all of the...

If Lurie had one do-over . . . did someone say Terrell Owens.
August 3, 2006... Byline: John Smallwood BETHLEHEM, Pa. _ Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie freely admits that the Terrell Owens disaster had a profound effect on the way the Eagles will go about their future business. But unlike Sixers general manager Billy...

'Bring it on': Rib king Garry Maddox issues 5th annual Barbecue Challenge.
August 3, 2006... Byline: April Lisante Aug. 3--FOR YEARS, FORMER Phillies superstar center-fielder Garry Maddox has trash-talked anyone who dared challenge his ribs in his annual barbecue competition. In 2001, he vowed to kick everyone to the curb. In...

Philadelphia Daily News Dan Gross column: Tilley taking CN8 to court?
August 3, 2006... Byline: Dan Gross Aug. 3--LOU TILLEY, the longtime CN8 sportscaster who was let go by the network on June 29, has retained a lawyer and is considering suing the station, we're told. In June, CN8 cut loose 40 news staffers as the...

Philadelphia Daily News Ellen Gray column: 'Three Moons': End of the World whimsy.
August 3, 2006... Byline: Ellen Gray Aug. 3--THREE MOONS OVER MILFORD. 8 p.m. Sunday, ABC Family. HOLLYWOOD'S TAKE on the End of the World as We Know It usually leaves me cold. Whether it's a meteor hurtling toward Earth or aliens rising out of the...

Green Party candidate's odd bedfellows.
August 3, 2006... Byline: Will Bunch Aug. 3--One is a West Coast publisher who spent $1.1 million of his own money funding an anti-abortion ballot proposition that an ad in his papers called "our first opportunity since Roe v. Wade to pass a baby-saving law...

Teen held as shooter in Fairmount murder.
August 3, 2006... Byline: Tom Schmidt Aug. 3--Quinsell McCall, 16, was formally charged with murder and held without bail as an adult yesterday in the March shooting of a Fairmount boy. McCall was arrested with five companions in the aftermath of the...

Held for trial in 911-call murder.
August 3, 2006... Byline: Theresa Conroy Aug. 3--A former cell-phone store employee was ordered held for trial yesterday in a chilling double murder - captured by 911 - inside the Tioga store. Carl Robinson placed a call to 911 on June 1, alerting...

Mysterious injuries, then a fire... and now homicide.
August 3, 2006... Byline: Dana Difilippo Aug. 3--TO TERRY CHAPMAN Wright, her daughter looked as if she'd been in a brawl. But despite the busted lip, bruised face, skinned knee and other injuries she suffered last month, El Tanya Conover, 29, claimed...

Can program prevent homicides?
August 3, 2006... Byline: Mark Mcdonald Aug. 3--In a city of 1.4 million, there are about 100,000 Philadelphians on probation, parole or pre-trial release. Another 100,000 city residents have criminal records. Within this haystack of woe, there are some...

Philadelphia Daily News John Baer column: Our scary link to '54 novel.
August 3, 2006... Byline: John Baer Aug. 3--THE MAYOR goes on TV, the city has a curfew, a congressman calls a "summit," the attorney general gets $5 million to chase illegal guns, the governor finds money for maybe 170 more cops and the Legislature...

Philadelphia Daily News Stu Bykofsky column: Operation Bedding: For her son and all his Marine pals.
August 3, 2006... Byline: Stu Bykofsky Aug. 3--ADAM CONBOY unwittingly created his own memorial. In his last conversation with his mom, the 21-year-old lance corporal asked her to round up clean sheets for himself and his Marine buddies in Iraq - 40...

Philadelphia Daily News Ronnie Polaneczky column: OK, folks: Dell mess will all be clearer in five days.
August 3, 2006... Byline: Ronnie Polaneczky Aug. 3--YOU HEARD it here first: Within five days, Mary Mason will make a "big announcement" about the Robin Hood Dell East that includes dates, times and places. She wouldn't say whether these things...

Cop could plead guilty today: His testimony could mean trouble for ex-Flyer Tocchet.
August 3, 2006... Byline: Kitty Caparella Aug. 3--If New Jersey State Trooper James Harney pleads guilty today to running an illegal national sports gambling ring, his alleged partner, ex-Flyers star Rick Tocchet, could be in real trouble. As a star...

Looking out for elderly, infants: As Philly broils again today, many reach out with aid, advice.
August 3, 2006... Byline: Christine Olley Aug. 3--Reaching close to 6,000 elderly residents with only about 40 employees on hand is all in a day's work for the Philadelphia Housing Authoritystaff. That's how widely stretched their effort has been this...

SITE gets a lot of credit for crime drop in SW Phila. area.
August 3, 2006... Byline: David Gambacorta Aug. 3--Few sections of the city have been hit as hard by the ever-surging wave of crime as Southwest Philadelphia. Cops who work in the 12th Police District, with headquarters at 65th Street and Woodland...

EDITORIAL: Cool(Ing) Idea.(Editorial)
August 3, 2006... Aug. 3--THIS WEEK'S extreme heat should be considered a natural disaster as potentially devastating as any hurricaine or storm. Now we should pay closer attention to our vulnerable citizens. The elderly, in particular, find it harder to find...

EDITORIAL: Fda Chokes On 'plan B' Pill: MORNING-AFTER PILL BECOMES POLITICAL FOOTBALL.(Editorial)
August 3, 2006... Aug. 3--FOOL ME once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me" is an old saw that George W. Bush likes to mangle. We were reminded of that homily Monday when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration sent out a press release saying it would...

Area sports icon Fitz Dixon dies.
August 3, 2006... Byline: John F. Morrison Aug. 3--Fitz Eugene Dixon Jr. will probably go down in Philadelphia sports history as the guy who brought Julius Erving to the 76ers. It was 1976 and Dixon, who owned the Sixers, made the deal to bring "Dr. J"...

Philadelphia Daily News John Smallwood column: If Lurie had 1 do-over...
August 3, 2006... Byline: John Smallwood Aug. 3--BETHLEHEM - Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie freely admits that the Terrell Owens disaster had a profound effect on the way the Eagles will go about their future business. But unlike Sixers general manager...

5 indicted in illegal sale of drugs.
August 3, 2006... Byline: Michael Hinkelman Aug. 3--A federal grand jury yesterday indicted five people and a local pharmacy in an alleged conspiracy to illegally distribute weight-loss drugs over the Internet. The operation, run by a California-based...

Dr. J: Fitz a 'total giver': Hall of Famer fondly recalls former Sixers owner.
August 3, 2006... Byline: Phil Jasner Aug. 3--Julius Erving was somewhere in Arizona when he was informed that Fitz Eugene Dixon, the 76ers' owner who brought him into the NBA in 1976, had died yesterday. Dixon, who had melanoma, was 83. Erving, the...

CATCHING fire.
August 3, 2006... Byline: Les Bowen Aug. 3--BETHLEHEM - Receivers who are new to the Eagles have a complex, confusing offense to deal with - that topic has been covered quite thoroughly during the Andy Reid Era. But there's something else they have to...

McNabb lauds two heroes.
August 3, 2006... Byline: John Smallwood Aug. 3--BETHLEHEM - Donovan McNabb is never shy about showing the loquacious side of his personality, but the Eagles quarterback wasn't the youngest person named to the Board of Trustees at Syracuse University for...

Philadelphia Daily News Rich Hofmann column: Just Chuck being Chuck.
August 3, 2006... Byline: Rich Hofmann Aug. 3--BETHLEHEM - There are some things that even heat like yesterday's will not melt. So Chuck Bednarik, age 81, stood there after the Eagles practiced and continued to project all of the pains and all of the...

No kidding: Utley player of month.
August 3, 2006... Byline: Paul Hagen Aug. 3--ST. LOUIS - Chase Utley, as most people know by now, doesn't like to talk about his hitting streak. Not even with Charlie Manuel. So the manager just keeps writing the second baseman's name into the lineup and...

How wild? Phils take Cards again.
August 3, 2006... Byline: Paul Hagen Aug. 3--ST. LOUIS - If the National League wild-card race were a book, it would be "Ripley's Believe It or Not!" If it were a party, the whole damn neighborhood (including the people who never mow their lawn and the...

PSU tackle no longer defensive about change.
August 3, 2006... Byline: Bernard Fernandez Aug. 3--CHICAGO - Sports psychologists would have you believe that defensive players are unkempt maniacs, prone to freelancing mind-sets, messy lockers and, who knows, maybe biting the heads off live bats. If Ozzy...