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Villanova Linebacker Forrest Rhyne Is Waiting for the NFL Call
Villanova linebacker, Forrest Rhyne, has led all of college football in tackles. Now he’s hoping he will one of those chosen for the NFL draft, reports Rosemary Connor for NBC 10. It’s the love of football and his family that motivates Rhyne to succeed at the game. “It’s something I’ve been playing since I was…
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Firstrust Bank Puts Eagles Swag Up for Grabs in Promo Tied to Tomorrow’s Draft
Firstrust Bank is so eager for the 2022–2023 Philadelphia Eagles season that it’s stirring excitement around football’s earliest indication of its possible outcome: this week’s NFL Draft. The bank’s Top Pick Sweepstakes is a chance for fans to enter a series of bank-sponsored drawings for memorabilia that any fan would covet. Two prizes are up…
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New York Post: Jay Wright Reveals Why He Retired
Jay Wright know it was time to retire as Villanova University’s head basketball coach when he found himself at mass texting his players during the homily, reports the Associated Press as printed in the New York Post. “I look forward not to live that way.” Wright choked back tears Friday explaining his sudden retirement at…
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Firstrust Bank Huddles with Phila. Eagles for High-School Business Proposal Competition
The competitors arrived at the Firstrust Bank Club to battle, an apt outlook considering their surroundings. Five teams of students were at Lincoln Financial Field, home of the Phila. Eagles, unfazed by the presence of media, conferring with coaches in the pre-game lull, shaking off nerves by reviewing their business proposal content. The contest they…
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Jay Wright Announces He’s Retiring as Head Coach From Villanova
The greatest coach in Philadelphia college basketball history is retiring. Jay Wright’s Wildcats team won two national championships in 2016 and 2018 and went to the Final Four four times, most recently this month. Now the 60-year-old head coach, after weeks of weighing his decision, has announced he is retiring from coaching, writes Mike…
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Former NFL Quarterback from Downingtown Taking His Talents to New Pro Football League That Debuts Saturday
Former NFL quarterback Kyle Lauletta, a graduate of Downingtown East High School, is taking his talents to the newly formed United States Football League, which kicks off this weekend, writes R.J. Young for FOX Sports. Lauletta, a fourth-round pick in the 2018 NFL Draft who played collegiately at the University of Richmond, spent time with…
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WCU to Host Panel Discussion of Title IX with Amy Fadool of NBC Sports Philadelphia
West Chester University’s Athletics Department will host a panel discussion of Title IX on Wednesday that Amy Fadool, an award-winning sports anchor and reporter for NBC Sports Philadelphia, will moderate. Title IX is the landmark piece of gender equity legislation celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Free and open to the public, “Title IX: A Chat Through…
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Here’s How Much Those Final Four Appearances Are Worth for Villanova University
Despite the Villanova Wildcat loss to Kansas Saturday, the Final Four has been good for the university, writes Ryan Mulligan for Philadelphia Business Journal. Saturday was Villanova’s third Final Four appearance in the last six NCAA tournaments. It won national championships in 2016 and 2018. The financial and promotional fallout from these multiple appearances has…
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Cheyney’s Women’s Basketball Team in Final Four History Books
Cheyney University’s women’s basketball team from 1982, the Lady Wolves, is celebrating a 40th anniversary of its moment in history, reports Fox 29. In 1982, the Lady Wolves made it to the NCAA Division I championship game, the only team from a historically Black college or university to play in the championship. Going into the…
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Former Eagles Owner from West Chester Buys Full City Block in Miami
Former Eagles owner Norman Braman, the billionaire car dealer who spent his early years in West Chester before moving to Cobbs Creek, now owns an entire block in Miami’s Edgewater neighborhood, writes Brian Bandell for the Philadelphia Business Journal. Braman, 89, recently acquired the Fight Club Miami building located at 106 and 120 N.E. 20th…
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Final Four Villanova Fans Stock Up On Gear Ahead Of Saturday’s Game
The Villanova Wildcats take on the University of Kansas this weekend in New Orleans in the Final Four and people are literally gearing up, writes Alecia Reid for CBS 3. There’s calm now on the campus, but it was a noisy sendoff for the team on Wednesday, March 30, writes Bob Grotz for the Daily…
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Villanova Remembers All-Time Track & Field Great George Sydnor
George Sydnor, a two-time world record holder in the 60-yard dash from Villanova, who also was a longtime local civic leader and a popular Garrett Hill crossing guard, has passed away. He was 86. Sydnor died March 18. The life-long resident of Villanova ran on some of the greatest teams in Villanova University track &…
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Playing a Little Lacrosse at Soccer’s Subaru Park in Chester
Subaru Park in Chester is known for soccer as home stadium for the Philadelphia Union, but on Sept. 18, it will host the Premier Lacrosse League (PLL) title game, writes Olivia Reiner for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Subaru Park hosted the inaugural PLL title game and inaugural championship game in 2019 between the Whipsnakes and Redwoods.…
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For First Time, Interboro Wrestler Takes Silver at PIAA State Tournament
Dom D’Agostino of the Interboro High School Bucs has a lot to be proud of after taking a silver medal in wrestling at the recent PIAA Class 3A state tournament, writes Bob Grotz for PA Prep Live. No Interboro Bucs wrestler ever got better than sixth at the tournament. Even D’Agostino’s loss, 24-8, to Rocco…
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Triple-Double Trouble: March Madness Fouls U.S. Business Productivity
If recent productivity trends hold true this week, March Madness — the NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Championship — will cause a noticeable drop in employee effectiveness nationwide. The annual decline in productivity and getting tasks done during the tournament results from employees in all industries following the popular tournament on their computers and mobile…
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Top of Their Game: Villanova’s Jay Wright and Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski
Retiring Duke University Basketball Coach Mike Krzyzewski and Villanova Coach Jay Wright have similar careers and built their school’s programs in similar ways, write Mike Sielski for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Krzyzewski is college basketball’s most recognizable, powerful and popular coach, with 1,200 career victories and six national championships. Now, with Krzyzewski’s exit, that title should…
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DeSales University Student is One of World’s Best Axe Throwers
Tyler Seidel, a sophomore at DeSales University, quickly rose to the top of the ranks in axe throwing after picking up the hobby as a means of recreation during the pandemic, writes Daniel Patrick Sheehan for The Morning Call. Seidel is an accounting and finance major with plenty of athletic talent that has served him…
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U.S. Women’s Soccer Takes on Former Soviet Republic, Uzbekistan, in Chester
Subaru Park in Chester will be the site in April of a first-ever soccer match between the U.S. Women’s National Team and a former Soviet republic, Uzbekistan, writes Anne M. Peterson for the Associated Press, as reported at WHYY. Two games are scheduled, April 9 in Columbus, Ohio; and April 12 in Chester. Uzbekistan, which…
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