PHILADELPHIA — Candy corn — invented ages ago in Philadelphia, according to legend — may be even more polarizing than that other autumnal aroma, pumpkin spice. The police department in Fort Collins, Colorado, once said (only partly in jest?) that this …
Eagles-Steelers analysis: The unstoppable A.J. Brown-Jalen Hurts connection moves the Birds to 7-0
PHILADELPHIA — After a week off, the Eagles picked up right where they left off. Any notion of rust coming off of the bye week was quickly dispelled in the Eagles’ 35-13 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday. It’s the second time in franchise hist…
Doug Mastriano ally Toni Shuppe has a plan to ‘stop the steal of 2022.’ It’s full of misinformation
PHILADELPHIA — A Florida man with the username “Lone Raccoon” is carpet-bombing election officials around the country with requests for voting records. Hired by My Pillow founder Mike Lindell, the man says he has been “led by God” to try to prove that …
Topper down, Wheels flat: Rob Thomson, Zack Wheeler, Phillies fade in Game 2 of the World Series
HOUSTON — If you’re going to lose, do it right. Show up flat. Emotionally spent. Throw a bunch of meatballs, kick it around, and give it away from the bench. Then fly back to Citizens Bank Park, where the most raucous crowd in baseball lives and feeds,…
The Phillies need Zack Wheeler right, and he didn’t look close to it in a Game 2 loss
HOUSTON — The slider that Zack Wheeler threw to Alex Bregman in the bottom of the fifth inning wouldn’t have been more alarming if it was flashing red and blue. It did not dart, or dive, or act in any other way like a pitch that normally comes from Whe…
Astros jump on Zack Wheeler and the Phillies to even the World Series 1-1 heading back to Philly
HOUSTON — As the longest season of Zack Wheeler’s career unfolded this month, he approached each postseason start for the Philadelphia Phillies in the same way that Usain Bolt might tackle a long-distance relay race. Go as fast as you can for as long a…
Joel Embiid’s dagger 3-pointer saves Sixers in ugly 114-109 win over the Chicago Bulls
CHICAGO — This was a somewhat ugly outing for the 76ers. They blew a 19-point lead. James Harden struggled mightily from the field. It took Tyrese Maxey a long time to find his rhythm due to early foul trouble. And Joel Embiid missed a pair of foul sho…
Resilience, heart, whatever: The Phillies are three wins from a title, and it isn’t going away
HOUSTON — Anybody who says the World Series is like any other game either has not been there or is lying to themselves. There is a density to it, a teeming sort of thickness. The place is crowded even before the crowd arrives, the warning track choked …
J.T. Realmuto caps Phillies comeback with homer in the 10th to beat Astros, 6-5, in World Series opener
HOUSTON — Kyle Tucker said he wanted to get this World Series over with quickly, and darned if the Houston Astros right fielder didn’t try his hardest to make it so. But, well, like just about everyone in baseball, he underestimated the Philadelphia Ph…
Guns used in Roxborough shooting later ended up in the hands of a Philadelphia sheriff’s deputy
PHILADELPHIA — Two of the guns used in the shooting outside Roxborough High School last month, which left a 14-year-old dead and four teens injured, later ended up in the hands of a Philadelphia sheriff’s deputy who then illegally resold the weapons to…