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It’s only a preseason game, but tonight’s meeting of the Philadelphia Eagles and New England Patriots at Lincoln Financial Field has a lot of intrigue. The showdown between Donovan McNabb, the yet-to-win-a-Super Bowl quarterback against Tom Brady, the two-time Super Bowl MVP, is…
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Read on mcall.com →At the University of Cincinnati, the game plan for tight end Brent Celek was to block first then block again. That’s usually the main job of a tight end. But the Philadelphia Eagles have discovered that the 6-foot-4, 255-pound Celek also has good hands and can make a nifty…
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Read on mcall.com →It’s three days and counting before Philadelphia Eagles rookie running back LeSean McCoy gets to try to juke and elude New England Patriots defenders with the same effectiveness he’s had against his teammates throughout training camp at Lehigh’s Goodman Campus. Never mind that…
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Read on mcall.com →A season of high expectations for the Philadelphia Eagles’ is not totally lost because of the rash of injuries in training camp which may have prevented total chemistry and consistency from being developed. It’s three days before the first preseason game and not three days…
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Read on mcall.com →A second Eagles player has suffered an anterior cruciate ligament tear in his left knee, another blow to the team during a training camp in which there have been season-ending injuries, a death and an arrest. Rookie tight end Cornelius Ingram, a fifth-round draft pick from the…
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Read on mcall.com →Attack at will. That was the mentality of the Eagles defense under Jim Johnson the previous 10 seasons and nothing figures to change now that his understudy, Sean McDermott, is the defensive coordinator. McDermott is not yet the mastermind Johnson was considered around the NFL,…
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Read on mcall.com →Watch out for wide receiver DeSean Jackson when he cuts to the inside or curls to the outside. Be even more alert when the game is on the line and the Eagles have to go deep and you’re a cornerback trying to cover the speedy Jackson one-on-one. Since his first practice at…
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Read on mcall.com →Nothing has changed in the way Jeremy Maclin dashes into the heart of the secondary to make a spectacular catch-and-run. The Philadelphia Eagles’ first-round draft pick from the University of Missouri missed the first nine days of training camp while his contract was being…
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Read on mcall.com →Asante Samuel has returned to being a menace on the field. Good thing for the Philadelphia Eagles’ defense, bad for wide receivers who have to try to break free from the Pro Bowl cornerback, who’s in his second season with the team. The tweaked hamstring that forced Samuels to…
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Read on mcall.com →Don’t start thinking the Philadelphia Eagles’ defense will be exposed in the middle with the loss of Stewart Bradley to an anterior cruciate ligament tear in his right knee. First, give Joe Mays a chance. Safety Quintin Mikell believes that Mays is ready to start in the middle…
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Read on mcall.com →Philadelphia Eagles No. 1 draft pick Jeremy Maclin was finally signed to a contract late Monday night and can now make plans to fly back from Missouri to join his new teammates in Bethlehem. Maclin, a two-year standout at the University of Missouri, has missed eight days of…
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Read on mcall.com →His teammates gave him props, fans cheered, but former Penn State defensive lineman Josh Gaines is not getting overly excited about his 15-yard interception return of a lazy A.J. Feeley pass Sunday night at Lincoln Financial Field. But it was the last big play in the Eagles’…
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Read on mcall.com →Remember Allen Iverson’s famous practice quote from 2002? “We’re talking about practice,” the former Philadelphia Sixers’ guard said in response to being criticized by then-coach Larry Brown about his practice habits after the Sixers’ were eliminated in the first-round of the…
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Read on mcall.com →Rain forced the Philadelphia Eagles to shorten their Sunday morning practice, limiting what they could work on at Lehigh University’s Goodman Campus. The team, however, also practiced Sunday night at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia. Earlier Sunday, one note of discontent…
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Read on mcall.com →Kevin Curtis refuses to become the forgotten wide receiver in the Philadelphia Eagles’ offense. He wants to return to the level he reached in 2007, his first season with the team, when he excelled with career highs in catches (77) and touchdowns (8). On Thursday at Lehigh…
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Read on mcall.com →The University of Florida won the national football championship last season and all tight end Cornelius Ingram could do was watch from the sidelines because of an injury. He tore his anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee during practice — on a noncontact play — before the…
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Read on mcall.com →It rained so hard Sunday that it seemed Eagles coach Andy Reid was going to have to take a boat to his first news conference of training camp at Lehigh University’s Goodman Campus. Then the sun came back out and Reid appeared. The coach, entering his 11th training camp, would…
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Read on mcall.com →The Philadelphia Eagles fell one game shy of playing in the franchise’s third Super Bowl last season. That they even made it to the NFC Championship Game, following a 5-4-1 start that included a midseason benching of quarterback Donovan McNabb, was impressive. Though they lost…
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Read on mcall.com →It was disaster at hole No. 10 for Paula Creamer, the American star and Pink Panther of women’s pro golf. After a triple-bogey on 10, Creamer dropped her head, her eyes watered and her game continued to go south in third-round play of the U.S. Women’s Open on Saturday at Saucon…
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Read on mcall.com →The U.S. Women’s Open was stirred by Creamermania on Friday. And Ochoamania. And Kerrmania. Paula Creamer, though, had the most frenzied support as the 22-year-old from Pleasanton, Calif., played with flamboyance during the second round at Saucon Valley Country Club. She was…
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Read on mcall.com →Since retiring from the LPGA Tour in 2006 with more than $8 million in career earnings, Rosie Jones has been content to walk around her home with “hammer and nails” to fix things or build bird houses. Often she cooks Mexican food, a specialty, or grills ribs, one of her…
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Read on mcall.com →Liberty’s Devin Street has done a lot of eating, socializing and building confidence this week. Tonight, the 6-foot-4 wideout hopes to help Pennsylvania extend its winning streak against Ohio in the Big 33 Football Classic to four games. Kickoff of the 52nd annual game is at 7…
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Read on mcall.com →— Bethlehem Catholic sprinter Hansol Song had one thing on his mind before the start of the Class 2A 400-meter relay final in the PIAA Track and Field Championships on Saturday at Seth Grove Stadium. It might have seemed crazy to some. “I was thinking I will break my legs just…
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Read on mcall.com →Make no mistake, Saucon Valley’s Alyssa Lombardo is young. Just not as young as she was listed in the program for the Colonial League Track and Field Championships on Thursday at Bangor Memorial Park. “They have me listed as a freshman” Lombardo said in a calm and composed…
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