Philly Sports Jabronis

For those understudies familiar with Joe D’s Survival Football Manifesto, you already know the methods for how Week 1 should be approached. For those unfamiliar, click here. With the already-established rules in mind related to focusing on home teams only ...

The wrong mid-summer trade is being criticized three years later.  By Joe Darrah At the MLB trading deadline during the summer of 2011, the Philadelphia Phillies were well on their way to a fifth consecutive National League East title. Roy ...

By Joe Darrah Philly has legitimately earned a reputation for “being tough” on Hall of Famers, world champions, MVPs, Rookies of the Year, All Stars, All Pros, (input your adjective here) and the list goes on. Then, there’s Jimmy Rollins, ...

By Joe Darrah Unsurprisingly, the Philadelphia Soul opened its 2014 training camp this weekend without yours truly in uniform. Last weekend, however, I was among 150 participants at the team’s third and final open tryout of the offseason. I attended ...

By Joe Darrah There’s never, and I mean never, been any athlete in any sport in any era who has received more “credit” for what he’s “going to do” than LeBron James. The self-promoting and media anointed “King” of basketball ...

I remember hating the New York Yankees as a kid for no better reason than their status as the “Evil Empire” with the ability and willingness to buy whoever they wanted, whenever they wanted. But as I grew up and ...