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University City: Penn Sprint Football Gaining Ground

November 5, 2015 pnadmin 0

On a cool, crisp, October night, Bill Wagner smiled as he watched his University of Pennsylvania football players practice on Franklin Field. Penn’s Sprint football team might be one of the lesser-known groups to have [Read More]

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Amateur Sports: NCAA March Madness Set to Return to Philadelphia in 2016

April 21, 2015  0

When the Philadelphia Sports Congress, the Wells Fargo Center and La Salle University bid to host the East Regional round of the 2016 NCAA men’s basketball tournament, they hoped it would have an economic impact on [Read More]

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Chestnut Hill: Chestnut Hill College to Introduce Women’s Bowling Next Year

March 19, 2015  0

When a person thinks about collegiate sports, the ones that come to mind include football, basketball and maybe even tennis or lacrosse. Beginning with the 2015-2016 academic year, Chestnut Hill College will add women’s bowling [Read More]

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University City: Drexel Lacrosse Player Looks Back

March 13, 2015  0

The night of Dec. 8, 2012 had started off like any other Saturday night for Brendan Glynn, then a lacrosse player entering his senior season at Drexel University. Glynn was coming off a successful junior [Read More]

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Chestnut Hill: “Traditionally Untraditional” University Adds a Sprint Football Team

November 25, 2014  0

The slim chance of playing football at the college level is a difficult pill to swallow for many high school hopefuls. However, a little-known variant of the game, known as sprint football, can provide these [Read More]

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Far Northeast: Pilot Fall Wooden Bat League Gets Another Season

November 24, 2014  2

What started as a simple idea to play baseball in the fall with a wooden bat has become a hit in Northeast Philadelphia. And it will return next fall, and maybe even sooner. Academy Sabres vice [Read More]

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