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The Color Run Is Returning to Philly This Summer — With a Tropical Theme

The Color Run returns to Philly this summer for the fifth time with a brand-new tropical theme, a new venue, and (like I even have to say it) […]

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City Life

You Need to Vote for the Nats to Have a Jonathan Papelbon Bobblehead

There’s nothing that Philadelphia sports fans like more than trolling a player they used to root for, especially if that player left under less-than-ideal circumstances. […]

City Life

Ruben Amaro: Anti-Analytics Comments Were Just a Ruse

Ruben Amaro was famous for saying the wrong thing to the media. What’s funny is Amaro was initially thought of as a great young general […]

City Life

A Phillies Starter Is Already Out for Most of the Season

Aaron Altherr wasn’t one of the Phillies highest-rated prospects, but his stint with the Phillies last season was rather successful. He put up solid numbers […]

City Life

Missanelli: This Year’s Phillies Will Stink — but in a Refreshing Kind of Way

Phillies spring training has begun and for the first time in many years, it has a different feel. It’s like the opening of a new […]

Business

Phillies Renew WIP Radio Deal

It’s February. The weather stinks. There’s no more football to watch on TV. Our hockey team is mediocre at best and our basketball team is […]

City Life

The Best Thing That Happened This Week: The Phillies’ Spring Training Truck Left Town

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Phillies Trade Former First-Round Pick Jesse Biddle to Pirates

The Phillies have cut bait on their 2010 first-overall pick. Jesse Biddle has been traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates, per multiple reports. The Inquirer had […]

Phillies - Red alternate jerseys - 2016
City Life

Phillies Unveil New Red Alternate Jerseys

For the first time in years, the Phillies will wear red jerseys in the regular season. The Phillies announced today that the jerseys, created by […]

City Life

Missanelli: 2020 Is Going to Be Like 1980 for Philly Sports

If you can wait four more years until we get to 2020, sports in Philadelphia is going to be pretty good. That’s what my crystal […]

City Life

Phillies Hire Ex-YouTube Analyst, 30, for Front Office Analytics Gig

Perhaps the Phillies can Rickroll their opponents to distract them next season. Okay, maybe not. But today the team announced it had hired 30-year-old Andy […]

Citified

PHOTOS: Jim Kenney’s Bizarro Block Party

Instead of holding an inaugural black-tie gala Monday night, Mayor Jim Kenney stayed true to his rowhome roots and threw a block party — that is, if you […]

City Life

Howard Denies Doping Report, Attorney Threatens Lawsuit

Phillies’ first baseman Ryan Howard is denying an Al Jazeera report he used performance enhancing drugs, and his attorney is threatening to sue the TV […]

City Life

Report: Pete Rose Will Remain Banned From Baseball

Pete Rose, Major League Baseball’s all-time hits leader who has been suspended from baseball for a quarter-century because he bet on baseball, will not be reinstated. […]

City Life

The Phillies Actually Got a Former No. 1 Pick in the Ken Giles Trade

Last week, I wrote about why the Phillies were right to trade Ken Giles. He’s a closer, a piece that’s often available on the open […]