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Dick Allen mural coming to South Broad

Although the Hall of Fame still waits, one of the greatest athletes to play professional sports in Philadelphia is getting long-overdue recognition along Broad Street. Phillies slugger Dick Allen will be featured on a 2,000-square-foot...

Eagles lose Week 13 championship game

You can be sure that the San Francisco 49ers Week 13 championship rings will be spectacular. After a dominating and impressive dismantling of the hometown Philadelphia Eagles, the Niners exorcised the demons of their NFC...

All-Catholic honors for 12 Saints

A dozen student-athletes from Neumann-Goretti High School received All-Catholic honors for the 2023 fall season. The Saints competed at the varsity level in the Catholic League only in football and volleyball in the fall. In...

Angelo Cataldi still has plenty to say

Angelo Cataldi hasn’t run out of things to say. The voice that launched a thousand imitators, that propped up an entire industry, that spoke for entire generations of Philadelphia sports fans remains as outspoken as...

Rest of NFL makes watching the Eagles more fun

The best benefit of having one of the best teams in the National Football League in town is being able to watch other NFL teams play while waiting for your team to hit the...

Warm Thanksgiving memories for Southern’s Lattera brothers

The game was played 52 years ago, but Joseph Lattera still remembers the play calls. “It was called a 32-Dive,” said Lattera, a 1972 graduate who played running back and cornerback for South Philadelphia High...

Palumbo Volleyball’s journey falls just short of ultimate prize

There was no hiding the tears that fell to the floor of the gymnasium on Wednesday.  The Academy at Palumbo volleyball team had just spent it all in the Public League high school volleyball championship....

Palumbo volleyball reaches Public League final

The Academy at Palumbo girls volleyball team avenged an early season loss by defeating Parkway Center City in four sets on Monday in the semifinal round of the Philadelphia Public League playoffs. The Griffins has...

Palumbo volleyball hoping hard work pays off

The team gatherings happened early in the summer and they never stopped.  The members of the Academy at Palumbo girls volleyball team always enters a season prepared to face the best teams in the city....

Queen Village teen balances field hockey, school

Caroline Niebling loves sports. So much so that when she was a kid, she tried just about everything. Even ones you wouldn’t think a girl from Queen Village in Philly would ever attempt. “I did everything when...
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