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Mayor, Congressman Disagree On Whether Or Not The NFL Draft Will Be In Philadelphia
The NFL Draft has been held in Chicago for the past two years. According to Congressman Bob Brady, who represents Pennsylvania’s 1st congressional district, the event will be in Philadelphia next year. According to Philadelphia mayor Jim Kenney, no, it won’t. It’s not currently clear who’s right, wh...

Buddy Ryan Was Philadelphia's Winningest Coach Who Never Won<em></em>
Buddy Ryan’s introductory press conference as new coach of the Philadelphia Eagles in 1986 began with this ridiculous statement: “You got a winner in town.” Two weeks before that press conference, Ryan was carried off the field by the Bears after their Super Bowl XX victory, lionized as the architec...

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DA: LeSean McCoy Won't Be Charged In Bar Fight
Bills running back LeSean McCoy won’t be charged for his role in a fight with off-duty cops at a Philadelphia bar in early February, District Attorney Seth Williams announced today. In a release, Williams wrote that there wasn’t “enough evidence to meet the legal threshold to issue charges.” William...

Drink Up Fuckers
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High School Football Players Charged After Hazing Teammate During "No Gay Thursday"
Three 17-year-old football players at Conestoga High School (Penn.) have been charged in connection with an Oct. 15 hazing incident where they allegedly violated a 14-year-old freshman with a broom handle....

Report: District Attorney And Police Department At Odds Over LeSean McCoy Case
The Philadelphia District Attorney’s office has been noticeably silent regarding its plans for LeSean McCoy. News of the bar fight he was allegedly involved in broke over a week ago, and that was quickly followed by reports that charges against McCoy were imminent. But there hasn’t been any movement...
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Report: LeSean McCoy Involved In Brawl That Left Two Off-Duty Police Officers Hospitalized [UPDATE]
ABC 6 in Philadelphia is reporting that Bills running back LeSean McCoy was involved in an incident early Sunday morning that left two off-duty police officers in the hospital. ...

Brawl Breaks Out At The Wing Bowl
The Wing Bowl, Philadelphia’s annual chicken wing eating contest which you should probably avoid at all costs, happened today at Wells Fargo Center. (Molly Schuyler won by eating 429 wings.) There was also a fight in the stands, presumably over something very important....

Philly Radio Dipshit Calls Jason Kelce A "House Negro"
Sports radio is full of terrible morons who use their short tempers to draw out a two-minute topic into a 10-minute segment. (Examples can be found here, here, here, and here.) The only acceptable sports radio is Mike Francesa taking 40 minutes to name all the stops on the 7 train, and presumably th...

Sports Broadcaster Howard Eskin Is So Mad About Cliff Lee, He Can't Type
Everyone has typos. They’ll always happen, no matter how many times someone checks their copy. (This article is the exception. It’s infallible.) Philly sports personality Howard Eskin transcended the regular typo, however, with his reaction to Cliff Lee’s desire to pitch in MLB next season....

Security Footage Shows Giants Fan Before He Got Knocked Out By Eagles Fan
SEPTA police released this video Wednesday, which shows the scene before a Giants fan was knocked out at 69th Street Terminal after Monday’s Giants-Eagles game. ...

Twist-Ending Philly Bro Fight Is The Broiest Bro Fight Ever
Click for the drunken stumbling and the incredibly inaccurate flurry of fists, stick around for the heart-warming finale....

Man In Randall Cunningham Jersey Beats Shit Out Of Hitchhiking Robot
Prayers up for hitchBOT, the hitchhiking robot that aspired to see the entire country via the kindness of strangers and made it as far as Philadelphia before getting curbstomped. Thanks to surveillance footage, we know how hitchBOT ended up as a pile of limbs: a brief clip shows a man in what appear...

First-Ever Football Sideline Reporter Sentenced To 2-4 Years For Fraud
The first-ever football sideline reporter was sentenced to two to four years in a Pennsylvania state prison Wednesday. Don Tollefson—who was hired by ABC Sports in 1974 along with Jim Lampley after a nationwide talent search for someone to "represent the face and voice of the American college stud...

Philadelphia Hosts World's Shortest Running Event
Have you ever found yourself envious of all those races runners participate in, but are unwilling to actually run? Then Philadelphia (which, it should be noted, is the 14th-fattest city in the U.S.) has just the event for you....

The Mets Ate A Sickening Number Of Cheesesteaks
In perhaps the only significant victory of their season, the Mets shattered the one-day record for cheesesteaks consumed in the visitors' clubhouse in Philadelphia. ...

Fan Throws Pizza At Usher, Gets Ejected From Villanova-St. John's Game
We've all been there: you get up to grab some pizza and when you try to head back to your seats, the usher tells you to go a different way. So you throw your pizza at the usher. You have to get back to your kids with your pizza and the usher is being unreasonable. Your hands are basically tied at th...