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The Rocky Musical Playlist

News in the New York Times that Sylvester Stallone, book writer Thomas Meehan (Hairspray, The Producers), and the Tony-award-winning songwriting team of Lynn Ahrens and […]

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Improve Your Life With a DIY Obituary

As is true for the Queen Mum, Billy Dee Williams, Shirley MacLaine and other aging famous people, my obituary is already in progress. The basic […]

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My 5 Most Hated Mets of All Time

There used to be a time, and not so long ago, when a baseball series against the New York Mets elicited fervent emotion in Phillies […]

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What Kind of Phillies Fan Are You?

The crack of the bat. The smell of the freshly cut grass. The moron in your section who thinks he’s Rodney Dangerfield and won’t shut […]

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10 Ways Philly Can Get a World-Class Rep

World Class. The words just roll off your tongue. Beautiful words. Aspirational. Inspirational. Probably perspirational. When I hear about Philadelphia’s potential, I’ve always thought, world […]

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Chris Berman, Vaughn Hebron, Derrick Gunn, Mark Sanchez, Bill Cowher…

With the sports world in a holding pattern — the Super Bowl is maddeningly many days away, and the Flyers and Sixers proceed to their […]

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It’s January So My Gym’s Filled With Clueless People

This time of year, my gym is packed to maximum capacity, thanks to all the resolution-makers and runners forced indoors by the cold. You’d never […]