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How Sweet It Is! Archbishop Dolan Tastes World Series Victory
By David Gibson - Politics DailySo not only did Timothy Dolan get named archbishop of New York last spring, the most prestigious post in American Catholicism, but six months later he gets to crow about how the Yankees won the World Series. And to top it off, he had Philadelphia Cardinal Justin Rigali publicly pay off their World Series wager in front of reporters and photographers during a break in Monday's annual meeting of the U.S. hierarchy in Baltimore. Is that fair? Rigali and Dolan actually swapped Yankees and Phillies t-shirts (XXL, it appeared) and some friendly banter about the bet--New York bagels or Philly ...
Pols Score World Series Tickets
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyWorld Series tickets are hard to come by for average baseball fans (assuming they could even afford them in the first place) but some members of Congress and their staffers are having no problems getting into the big games. Major League Baseball sells seats to federal lawmakers and their aides at face value, hundreds of dollars less than the going rate, the Wall Street Journal reports. So far during the series between New York and Philadelphia, MLB has sold about 75 tickets to a total of 15 congress members and members of their staffs. A league spokesperson declined to say exactly who ...
Football, Baseball and Brotherly Love - Philadelphia Is Sports Heaven
By Dan Graziano - AOL NewsPHILADELPHIA -- Mike Alvarez is a lifelong Philadelphian with a Cole Hamels haircut and a vintage maroon Phillies cap who spent his Sunday in a parking lot. Alvarez didn't have tickets to the Eagles-Giants game in the afternoon. He didn't have tickets to the Phillies-Yankees World Series game at night. What he did have was a parking space for his truck, a seemingly bottomless supply of beer and enough slightly slurred wisdom to know that there was no place he would have rather been than this particular parking lot on this particular day, surrounded by his fellow Eagles and Phillies fans."They ...
As Flu Spreads, Some Panic
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL NewsFirst, the swine flu story line was about how many people didn't want the vaccine. Now that there's less of it than officials promised, people are clamoring for the vaccine and a type of public hysteria is becoming part of the story. "I've never seen it like this," a besieged doctor's office administrator in suburban Atlanta told USA Today. "That name, H1N1, sends parents into a panic." There's been "a lot of verbal abuse" from patients who can't get the vaccine, she added. Sasha and Malia Obama got their flu shots from a White House doctor, and in an unscientific survey of our readers, 55 ...
Yankees vs. Phillies, Bagels vs. Tastykakes
By David Gibson - Politics DailyGreat Game 1 of the World Series for those who 1) Hate the Yankees, 2) Love the pure, unadulterated National League version of baseball or 3) Are such miserable, humiliated Mets fans that they actually root for Philadelphia just so the other New York baseball fans can suffer. (Full disclosure: Well, guess...) What seems something less than worthy of the Fall Classic thus far, however, is the wager placed on the Series between Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia and Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York, as per a joint press release: "These two long-time friends spoke on Tuesday evening to ...
Cliff Lee's Catch: Proof He Had Everything Working Wednesday Night
By Josh Alper - AOL NewsYou can look at Cliff Lee's pitching line from Wednesday night's Game 1 win against the Yankees and know that he pitched well. During the game, though, you didn't need to do anything more than catch a closeup of Lee's face to know that he was in a serious groove. All game he wore the look of the guy who knew that he had his best stuff working and that he wasn't afraid who knew it. If the look on the face or the darts he was throwing didn't convince you, there was always this play: Or there was the nonchalant, waist high grab of Johnny Damon's pop-up. Or the way he tagged Jorge Posada on ...
The Contest in New Jersey: Yankees vs. the Phillies
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyTaking a momentary break from Corzine-Christie-Daggett, let's get to a polling question that counts: In New Jersey, which is overlapped by the New York and Philadelphia media markets, who are residents rooting for in the World Series, the Yankees or Phillies? ...
World Series Games May Start Earlier
By Tom Fornelli - AOL NewsWe're through the first two days of the baseball season so I figure it's about time we start talking about the World Series. Who you have going? I think it's pretty obvious after two games that both the Blue Jays and Marlins are going to go 162-0 and are on a collision course for October, though this opinion may be a bit premature. Still, MLB and Fox Sports are already talking about the World Series.More specifically, the start time for games.It's been a common complaint amongst baseball fans that World Series games start way too late and often don't finish until after midnight on the East ...
High School Students Kicked Off Football Team for Going to Phillies Parade
By Matt Watson - AOL NewsA high school football coach in suburban Philadelphia gave nine of his players the boot after they defied his orders not to skip school by attending the Phillies championship parade last Friday. Not surprisingly, the decision has generated a lot of negative attention, especially when you consider attendance at all public high schools in Philly was down 20 percent the day of the parade. What's the harm in letting the kids have a little fun, right? Surely the coach is on an unfortunate power trip ... right?Before you make a knee-jerk reaction, consider this: the kids were forced to sit out ...
Chase Utley Is Super F'n Excited
By Tom Fornelli - AOL NewsYou'll have to excuse Chase Utley here. After all, winning a World Series is pretty awesome, and when you get to celebrate that achievement in front of all your fans, sometimes the emotion can get the best of you.So what if your celebratory rally is being broadcast on live television throughout Philadelphia, sometimes you really need that F-bomb to drive your point home. Oh, and the video is NSFW if you haven't figured that out already.Damn f----n straight. Phillies Parade Photos Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Cole Hamles, the World Series MVP, addresses the fans during the ...
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