The SportsTalk Shop: 2016 Predictions: Mid-Year Update
Each December both here at the “SportsTalk Shop” and on our TV show, “SportsTalk”, panelists and I make some sports-based predictions for the new year. I don’t get caught up in the prediction business ordinarily, but it’s become a bit of a tradition around the holidays to make a couple bold statements to go along…
Read MoreBehind the Mic: Brotherly Love?
Philadelphia was certainly in the limelight this past week with the Democratic National Convention taking center stage. All of the media had a presence there. However, there was no national sports media. I bring this up because Ken Griffey, Jr. and Mike Piazza were inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday, July 24….
Read MoreThe SportsTalk Shop: Summer Hoops 2016 – Girls News
When I first saw the Easton girls team play in an early summer league game, I was this close (imagine my fingers about an inch apart) to saying that they were unequivocally the “team to beat” for the upcoming scholastic season–only to see them lose to Nazareth the next day. Since then I’ve seen…
Read MoreBehind the Mic: Lesson Learned?
Last week, I discussed the use of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) by Russian athletes during the 2014 Sochi Olympics. An investigation showed excessive manipulation by Russia’s sports ministry in the drug testing back to the 2011 and 2015 Olympic Games as well as the 2014 games in Sochi. Twenty-eight sports were implicated in the Russian…
Read MoreThe SportsTalk Shop: Summer Hoops 2016 – Part 2
Last week here at “The Shop,” we examined the biggest summer hoops teams and tournaments in the Washington, DC and Eastern Pennsylvania regions. This week, we focus on more of the underrated storylines to our local scholastic basketball action this summer. Northampton & Pocono Mountain West Perhaps no single game I’ve seen this summer was more…
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