Go (away), 76ers

Say you own a professional basketball team in a pretty passionate sports town. Then, say a league insider says something like this about your team: A Western Conference scout on Philadelphia, which has lost 12 of 14: “They are having…






Hit-and-Run America XXIX

An ongoing collection of unsolved hit-and-run cases, with a focus on car/pedestrian incidents, from across the country since Jan. ‘010. If you know something about any of these incidents, or one that I’ve missed, do the right thing and call…






FlashBackward

I never really wanted to wade into this whole Philly flash-mob thing. But then Judge Kevin Dougherty earned my rarely awarded “he’s the fucking man” award for raining justice down upon lying punks’ heads, before two additional things happened that…






No. 10

There’s a scene in Vision Quest when the dude that Louden Swain works with at the hotel room-service kitchen talks about how he was reduced to tears watching Pele back in the day, how the world seemed to just stop…