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.
February 3, 2016
College Football
National Signing Day takes in a huge local haul
Cary Angeline couldn’t wait to make it official. The 6-foot-7, 225-pound Downingtown East senior is considered one of the country’s best high school tight ends and he originally gave an oral commitment to USC.January 25, 2016
Eagles
Lane Johnson: Inside the frustrating 2015 Eagles season from hell
In two weeks, the Denver Broncos and Carolina Panthers will be playing in Super Bowl 50. In two weeks, the whole world’s focus will be converging on Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California. In two weeks, Lane Johnson and the rest of his Eagles’ teammates will be watching Super Bowl 50 at home – light years displaced from the unbridled hope and vision they had back in August.January 24, 2016
College Basketball
Temple shocks No. 8 SMU, ends nation's longest winning streak
Devin Coleman had no explanation. How could he? The Temple senior guard never shot the way he did on Sunday in his life. Not on the playground courts in Philadelphia. Not at Friends Central or in the time he played for Clemson. But every time the 6-foot-2 senior guard rose up and shot – it went in. Perfect. Barely touching the rim. Just a splash of twine at the end.January 24, 2016
Boxing
Philly's Danny Garcia adds WBC welterweight title to resume
LOS ANGELES – Danny Garcia is always self-contained in and out of the ring. The usual flamboyance that often times accompanies pro fighters is left up to his father, Angel, one of the kings of histrionics in the boxing world. Danny, however, stays in his control bubble. His pace, his speed, his distance. You won’t see him go crazy at weigh-ins or press conferences. You won’t see him throw wild, off-balance punches in the ring, either. Nothing flashy or exuberant. Venturing outside of his comfort cocoon is something he’s rarely done.January 6, 2016
High Schools
Is this Pennsylvania high schooler the next Bo Jackson?
They never bothered asking for his age.December 23, 2015
Politics
From parents to pals to bar patrons, 'Two Street' neighborhood put Jim Kenney on political path
Philadelphia Mayor-elect Jim Kenney’s political career was forged at the kitchen table of a fireman, his father James, and Barbara, a working mother. To some degree, he was the Irish Catholic South Philly version of the precocious “C” character in “A Bronx Tale.” A google-eyed, street-wise kid who absorbed everything around him, getting two educations. One from the priests and nuns who used to teach him at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, on Third Street, and the rigid Jesuits espousing service to others at St. Joseph’s Prep, on Girard Avenue.December 18, 2015
High School Football
Imhotep Charter’s Albie Crosby is so much more than just a football coach
The morning haze hasn’t lifted yet and you’ll see him there, head propped up against the window of his car, a solitary shadow out front of the indistinct brown and gray building that fills a city block at the intersection of North Philly’s 21st and Godfrey Avenue.December 17, 2015
Boxing
Philly fighter Gabriel Rosado punched by acting bug in "Creed"
Gabriel Rosado was in camp mode. That mental barricade that fighters build when preparing for a big fight, pushing away the remnants of the outside world and honing that lunatic fringe they need to step into the ring. So it’s a wonder the Philadelphia super welterweight heard anything that afternoon in a Los Angeles gym a year ago when someone approached him about a movie role.November 13, 2015
Poker
Who was that guy that won the poker championship and why was he wearing a Sixers jersey?
Joe McKeehen doesn’t rattle easily. He wears a stoic expression, speaks in a monotone voice, never too high or too low, and watches for those little things. It could be a raised eyebrow, a tapping finger on the green poker table felt, or how quickly someone will move their hands.November 11, 2015
High Schools
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Will Fuller walked out of the Notre Dame dressing room in the bowels of Lincoln Financial Field a few Saturdays ago, his face awash in relief after the Irish survived a major scare from Temple.Just In
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