The Reading Roller Derby team, which has its first game of the season on Sunday, is one of 19 Pennsylvania teams competing in The Women's Flat Track Derby Association.
Graham retired Tuesday following a 15-year career in Philly that was highlighted by his role in the defensive play that helped deliver the Eagles their first Super Bowl title.
Addressing reporters Monday to discuss his two-year, $41.2 million contract extension with $36 million guaranteed that made him league's highest-paid player at the position, Barkley already has turned his attention to building the best season of his career so far.
Beulah Osueke’s outreach is showing how sports can be a grassroots tool for empowerment and teaching life lessons.
Packers president and CEO Mark Murphy called the tush push "bad for the game," and submitted a proposal to ban the play, which NFL owners could vote on when they meet next month in Florida.
Membership in the National Collegiate Acrobatics and Tumbling Association has risen from 14 teams a decade ago to over 50 schools representing over 1,200 athletes, including Duquesne, which made its debut earlier this month. The NCAA labeled “acro” an emerging sport in 2020.
Walking home from the Super Bowl parade on Valentine's Day, Philadelphia Eagles fan Amy Rannabargar found a vintage team jacket hanging on a pole with a note inside that read, “I found this jacket on the night of the Super Bowl in 2018 and it only felt right to release back into the city when the Eagles won again.”
Barkley finished with a modest 57 yards rushing in the Eagles' 40-22 win over Kansas City in the Super Bowl — a paltry number for an elite running back who posted seven touchdown runs of 60-plus yards this season — but the total was enough to set the NFL single-season rushing record, postseason included, topping the mark of 2,476 yards set by Terrell Davis.
Quarterback Jalen Hurts threw for two touchdowns and ran for a score on a tush push to earn Super Bowl MVP honors, and Vic Fangio's defense was so dominant that the Eagles didn't need much from running back Saquon Barkley in a route that few saw coming.
From the promise of a big game from Lehigh Valley native Saquon Barkley, to seeing that big Chiefs fan Taylor Swift, to Big Dom, to President Trump’s reaction if the Eagles win, there are plenty of reasons for non-football fans to care about Super Bowl LIX.
