Joseph Santoliquito

Joseph Santoliquito is an award-winning sportswriter based in the Philadelphia area who has written feature stories for SI.com, ESPN.com, NFL.com, MLB.com, Deadspin and The Philadelphia Daily News. In 2006, he was nominated for an Emmy Award for a special project piece for ESPN.com called “Love at First Beep.” He is most noted for his award-winning ESPN.com feature on high school wrestler A.J. Detwiler in February 2006, which appeared on SportsCenter. In 2015, he was elected president of the Boxing Writers Association of America.

May 18, 2017

Eagles

An oral history of trash talk in the NFL – and why there's less now than ever

by Joseph Santoliquito

It’s fading more now, possibly left behind like the brutal forearm hits to the head, or the way the late Andre Waters would submarine a running back at the knees. Through each decade, it seems, the National Football League has grabbed its dirty laundry, power washed it, shook it dry and ironed it, working out the creases from the 1980s through the current game we have today.

April 11, 2017

Eagles

How an obsession with perfection took ‘Mr. Eagle’ Brandon Brooks from huddle to hospital

by Joseph Santoliquito

There were never any warning signs that it was coming. No turning in his sleep from stomach nausea; no twisted sheets caused by internal stress; no physical symptoms whatsoever.

March 31, 2017

World

Delco nurse builds a hospital in former homeland of Liberia

by Joseph Santoliquito

Delco nurse builds a hospital in former homeland of Liberia

January 30, 2017

Super Bowl LI

In Super Bowl, Patriots WR Chris Hogan will also be playing for local charity

by Joseph Santoliquito

This coming Sunday afternoon, in the bowels of Houston’s NRG Stadium, Chris Hogan will reach up into his locker for a few pieces of fluorescent green rubber. He’ll close his eyes for a second as he splays them out with his fingers over each wrist before he steps out on the field with the New England Patriots to play in Super Bowl LI.

January 16, 2017

Politics

After a year in mayor's office, Kenney chats soda tax, Trump and Philly sports

by Joseph Santoliquito

In office for just over a year as mayor of Philadelphia, Jim Kenney's still getting adjusted to people wanting to take pictures with him and ask for his autograph. The mayor has implemented some interesting initiatives, like the soda tax, and would like to institute others in 2017.

December 22, 2016

Eagles

Injured Dorenbos vows return: 'I want to win a Super Bowl so bad here'

by Joseph Santoliquito

In the scope of everything he’s been through in his life, and everything that’s happened to him this year, Eagles’ long-snapper Jon Dorenbos has a unique term for the throbbing, searing pain that’s going through his right hand: It’s a champagne problem.

December 18, 2016

Boxing

In final bout, Bernard Hopkins knocked out of ring by Joe Smith Jr.

by Joseph Santoliquito

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — It always tends to end this way in boxing, and it doesn’t matter who it is. Boxing and age tend to eat its greats. It happened to Joe Louis. It happened to Muhammad Ali. And on Saturday night, in the fabled, refurbished, Forum, in a fight billed as “The Final One,” it happened to Bernard Hopkins.

December 11, 2016

High Schools

D’Andre Swift leads St. Joseph's Prep to first 6A championship

by Joseph Santoliquito

HERSHEY, Pa. – No one wanted to leave the field. They just swirled around like a human tornado around the trophy with the golden ball, the eye of their joy on successive nights, not feeling a hint of the sub-freezing temperatures at all.

December 2, 2016

Fidel Castro

Fidel Castro's death an emotional jolt for Eagles broadcaster, Prep football coach

by Joseph Santoliquito

For Rickie Ricardo and Gabe Infante, byproducts of Cuban exiles who escaped Castro’s tyranny, their shared feelings surfaced with other Cubans in Philadelphia, North Jersey, Miami and other places in the United States.

November 24, 2016

Football

St. Joe's Prep's multi-talented McCray playing for two – himself and the 'hero' mom that raised him

by Joseph Santoliquito

Sometime this Saturday, during warmups or team stretches, he’s going to look up among the faces in the stands at Northeast High School, where St. Joseph’s Prep will play host in the PIAA 6A state quarterfinals to Parkland, last year’s state finalists, and Marquez McCray is bound to spot to her. He always does.