Philly SportsCast

Philly SportsCast #210 – December 29, 2009
After a week off, it’s Derek and Dave flying solo as Emoney rests his drinkin’ voice for tonight’s festivities.
It’s been a wonderful decade concluding with a terrific sports year.
We were asked quite a few times via email and in the various bars we frequent here in lower Bucks [...]

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Tell me right now where the Eagles season would be without these two wonderful additions.
The Eagles drafted University of Missouri wide receiver Jeremy Maclin in the first round of the 2009 draft by trading their top pick at No. 21 and a sixth-rounder to the Cleveland Browns to get this cat at No. 19.
They [...]

What’s better for the football fans in this town than to have the final NFL regular season game be the Eagles at Dallas and have that game be for the division crown as well as a first round playoff bye?
Nothing.
With a victory in Dallas against the hated Cowboys, the Eagles can cap what has [...]

“What a way to go out – out like a sucker.” – Eric Sermon.
Before the Eagles were able to play their scheduled late afternoon game against the Broncos yesterday, there was a hell of a glorious mess going on up in North Jersey.
The Giants, who entered their game with the Carolina Panthers with legitimate playoff [...]

Despite a terrible second half, the Eagles were able to squeak out a 30-27 win over Brian Dawkins and the the Denver Broncos this evening. David Akers’ 28-yard field goal with seven seconds remaining put the Eagles ahead for good.
The Eagles were up 20-7 at halftime and 27-10 late in the third quarter [...]

An Eagles fan pretty much sums up how we all felt with the return of Broncos safety Brian Dawkins – a former Eagle – during the Denver-Philadelphia game today.

In order to properly celebrate the passing of the ’00’s later this week, I believe it’s only fitting that we take a look at all of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue covers and have a healthy debate over which cover is the finest of them all.

Brian Dawkins is headed back to town and besides the fact that he is missed terribly – all there is to say is that we miss this…

….terribly.

Jayson Stark is reporting that the Mets have are entertaining the idea of lbringing back Pedro Martinez.
However, Martinez “wants more than Brad Penny got” from the Cardinals. – Penny recently signed a one year, $7.5 million, plus incentives that could hike that amount to $9 million if Penny pitches 205 innings or more.
During [...]

While we certainly don’t condone this at Philly SportsCast, it is an amazing piece of video. That is a ton of snowballs being tossed at two Niners fans without giving any quarter.