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Francisville: Morris To Be Honored at Madison Square Garden

December 2, 2013

Big 5 Hall of Famer and current Saint Joseph’s Prep boy’s basketball coach William “Speedy” Morris will receive the Eastern College Athletic Conference Lifetime Achievement Award on December 7th at Madison Square Garden “Anytime you

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Center City: Thousands Run for Brain Tumor Awareness

November 27, 2013

In August of 2010, the Leonard family was dealt a blow that nobody had seen coming. Jeffrey, who graduated from Lower Moreland High School in 2002, had been diagnosed with a brain tumor and needed

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Francisville: St. Joseph’s Prep Football Readies For Catholic League Playoffs

November 6, 2013

As the Philadelphia Catholic League football playoffs prepare to get underway, everyone will be looking at two teams to cross paths – the St. Joseph’s Prep Hawks and the La Salle College High School Explorers.

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East Germantown: Hart Shatters All-Time Public League Receiving Record

October 29, 2013

Catching a football from a different quarterback, running routes on a new field and making new friends were not the things that bothered Delane Hart about switching schools three times in three years. It was

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North Philadelphia: Immigrants Find Common Ground On The Soccer Pitch

October 25, 2013

The Ben Franklin High School’s boy’s soccer team took the field at 29th and Chalmers and put on an impressive display, defeating Bodine High School 11-5. By the way the Franklin Electrons moved, one would

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East Germantown: Former NBA Player Colson Starting a New Tradition At Martin Luther King HS

October 8, 2013

https://vimeo.com/75453817] Last year, in head coach Sean Colson’s first year running the Martin Luther King High School basketball team, the Cougars went 25-5. Colson hopes that will be the start of a new, winning tradition. A

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Clifton Heights: South Philadelphia Resident Farr II Spreads the CrossFit Culture

September 18, 2013

It’s Friday morning at the CrossFit Advance gym in Clifton Heights, Pa. and about a dozen people are going through their workout. It’s an open gym, so those in attendance treat it as a make-up

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South Philadelphia: Coaching Duo Splits After Mosco Accepts Head Coaching Position

September 5, 2013

For the past 16 years, Neumann-Goretti High School boy’s basketball head coach Carl Arrigale and assistant coach John Mosco have worked closely with each other while bringing the Saints program to prominence within the Catholic

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