The SportsTalk Shop: Football Poll Preview 2016
With an earlier than normal start to the scholastic football season, the time to unveil the first “RCN SportsTalk” High School Football Poll for the Lehigh Valley is almost upon us! I’ve remarked in previous years how comprehensive and diverse our poll is compared to other publications and media outlets, and we are using the…
Read MoreBehind the Mic: Olympian Price Tag
The Olympics in Rio are up and running. Despite all of the warnings about crime and the Zika virus, there has been very little bad news to come out of the Games. As I write this, the United States is doing very well (men’s gymnastics aside) and, as is often the case, television viewership ratings…
Read MoreThe SportsTalk Shop: The “Next Best” Prospects
We’ve brought you quite a bit of information on top-level, up-and-coming minor league prospects in both the Phillies and Nationals organizations this summer. Here at “the Shop” and on RCN-TV, we’ve given you interviews with the players themselves along with their coaches and have provided insights, statistics and progress reports throughout the Minor League season. …
Read MoreThe SportsTalk Shop: Evolution of the Eagles
One of the many “guarantees” in my life is that my co-hosting partner of the “RCN SportsTalk” show, Joseph Lynnwood Craig, is constantly harassing me about things he wants…more airtime, bigger coffee mugs, softer cushions for his chair, etc. One of his regular complaints each summer is that he doesn’t get many opportunities to write…
Read MoreThe SportsTalk Shop: 2016 Predictions: Mid-Year Update
Each December both here at the “SportsTalk Shop” and on our TV show, “SportsTalk”, panelists and I make some sports-based predictions for the new year. I don’t get caught up in the prediction business ordinarily, but it’s become a bit of a tradition around the holidays to make a couple bold statements to go along…
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