Behind the Mic: Football is Here!
Friday, August 26, at 7:00pm, the high school football season begins! I know it seems early. That’s because it is. To accommodate the addition of two more classifications (AAAAAA and AAAAA), and the PIAA state championship finals, the season begins a week earlier than in the past. Remember when no games were played until after…
Read MoreThe SportsTalk Shop: Football Poll Preview 2016
With an earlier than normal start to the scholastic football season, the time to unveil the first “RCN SportsTalk” High School Football Poll for the Lehigh Valley is almost upon us! I’ve remarked in previous years how comprehensive and diverse our poll is compared to other publications and media outlets, and we are using the…
Read MoreBehind the Mic: Olympian Price Tag
The Olympics in Rio are up and running. Despite all of the warnings about crime and the Zika virus, there has been very little bad news to come out of the Games. As I write this, the United States is doing very well (men’s gymnastics aside) and, as is often the case, television viewership ratings…
Read MoreThe SportsTalk Shop: The “Next Best” Prospects
We’ve brought you quite a bit of information on top-level, up-and-coming minor league prospects in both the Phillies and Nationals organizations this summer. Here at “the Shop” and on RCN-TV, we’ve given you interviews with the players themselves along with their coaches and have provided insights, statistics and progress reports throughout the Minor League season. …
Read MoreThe SportsTalk Shop: Evolution of the Eagles
One of the many “guarantees” in my life is that my co-hosting partner of the “RCN SportsTalk” show, Joseph Lynnwood Craig, is constantly harassing me about things he wants…more airtime, bigger coffee mugs, softer cushions for his chair, etc. One of his regular complaints each summer is that he doesn’t get many opportunities to write…
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