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A Review of Ray Didinger’s “Finished Business”
“I knew, or at least I believed, that this is probably the last thing I’m ever going to write,” Ray Didinger told me over Zoom

The Phillies are Once Again Betrayed by Their Bullpen
Rhys Hoskins put the Phillies on his back last night, but the bullpen crew decided they didn’t want to go along for the ride. The

In Defense of Bruce Springsteen
I would like to begin with an apology to the good people of the Delaware Valley and the wonderful readers of this site. The music

Doc Rivers is Allergic to Accountability
“I think I do a terrific job,” Doc Rivers asserted during the final postgame press conference of the 76ers’ season, a dismal postmortem to document

The Phillies are Up to Their Old Tricks
The Philadelphia Phillies were going to be different this year. Owner John Middleton finally found some more of that “stupid money” lost between the couch

Can Joel Embiid Save the 76ers?
Adversity has a way of revealing truths that otherwise remain obscured during periods of normalcy. Sometimes, what we learn about ourselves while enduring a challenge

A Final Word on Ben Simmons
“I was born in Australia,” Ben Simmons remarked in One and Done, a 2016 feature that chronicled the basketball star’s path from Australia to the

Does the NFL Have a Racism Problem?
Earlier this week, former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores dropped a bomb on the NFL. The projectile arrived in the form of a 58-page