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.

September 15, 2016

Eagles

Eagles' Dorenbos, who 'got to live out a dream,' finishes third on 'America's Got Talent'

by Joseph Santoliquito

Someone sitting up in bed on a Tuesday night in Normal, Illinois -- a person who may not know the difference between a football and a pumpkin -- now knows who Jon Dorenbos is. Someone channel hopping in Canal Point, Florida, who may have thought a long snapper was a fisherman on an Alaskan crab boat, now knows No. 46 of the Philadelphia Eagles.

September 14, 2016

Eagles

How late mom helped Jon Dorenbos pick final 'America's Got Talent' trick

by Joseph Santoliquito

It was a little different this time. The flood of anxiety and emotion that Jon Dorenbos had walled off during his rise on “America’s Got Talent” began showing fissures Tuesday night in front of America. His hands shook. There was a twinge of nervous alacrity in his voice.

September 11, 2016

9/11

15 years after 9/11, Philly airport workers remember

by Joseph Santoliquito

As the nation pauses Sunday to remember the 2,996 victims on the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Philadelphia International Airport workers shared their memories from that day. Memories that remain as crystal clear as the skies above New York City and Philadelphia on that world-changing Tuesday morning.

September 9, 2016

Hospitals

Community hospitals play key role in trauma care

by Joseph Santoliquito

In Officer Chris Dorman's time of need, the ER staff at Mercy Fitzgerald was ready, willing and able

September 9, 2016

Boxing

Bernard Hopkins recounts his escape from New York City on 9/11

by Joseph Santoliquito

If the planes had struck New York’s World Trade Center an hour later, the list of casualties may have included Bernard Hopkins, who was about to leave for a scheduled media workout at the Trinity Gym on Wall Street at 10 that morning.

August 31, 2016

Eagles

Jon Dorenbos: Inside the ‘America’s Got Talent’ long-snap map trick

by Joseph Santoliquito

Jon Dorenbos makes it look easy. By watching the Eagles’ veteran long snapper, and the second-longest tenured Philadelphia pro athlete (behind Ryan Howard), in the semifinal round of “America’s Got Talent” Tuesday night, you wouldn’t have known it was actually the first time Dorenbos ever performed the trick in public.

August 29, 2016

Eagles

Malcolm Jenkins: I want to win a Super Bowl for the Eagles

by Joseph Santoliquito

Malcolm Jenkins is entering his third year with the Eagles, yet he’s been the kind of player that feels as if he’s been here for a decade. In February, after signing a new five-year deal, which includes a four-year extension reportedly worth $35 million, with $21 million in guarantees that carries through 2020, he’ll likely finish his NFL career as an Eagle.

August 26, 2016

Boxing

Once bitter enemies, 'Hands of Stone' protagonists Leonard, Duran now best of friends

by Joseph Santoliquito

All of the sharp, acute points are gone, replaced by a sort of paunchy, jovial softness. The square jaw, once as rigid as a right angle ruler, is lax and round, like the belly and the edges of those demonic, coal-colored eyes. The great mane filled with the bouncing thick, black licorice strands now carries touches of gray.

August 10, 2016

Eagles

How Eagles long-snapper Jon Dorenbos turned unthinkable misery into pure magic

by Joseph Santoliquito

“There’s not a day that goes by when I don’t think of my mother. What happened to my mom was 24 years ago, and I’d be lying if I said it doesn’t still hurt. I wish she could see all the good things I’m doing now."

August 3, 2016

Phillies

Ejected Phillies heckler tells his side of the story

by Joseph Santoliquito

What started out as what he assumed to be something snarky in the spirit of good fun turned into a little more than Jeremy Lichterman bargained for Tuesday night, when the 43-year-old from Delaware County made national news by being tossed from the stands by home plate umpire Bob Davidson in the sixth inning of the Phillies game with the San Francisco Giants at Citizens Bank Park.