Tuesday, April 9, 2013
You guys voted Meredith Podob and her group of friends Roxbourgh's greatest baseball fan.
Roxborough Patch recently ran a contest in search of the area's greatest baseball fan. We asked readers to submit photos of themselves and their fandom for other readers to vote on. You guys voted for Meredith Podob and her friends. I sent Meredith a few questions about her photo and her Phillie fandom in general. Patch : Who are the other people in the photo with you? But more importantly, where did you get those gloves? Meredith: In the Photo are Alexis Ciongoli, and Dana Vass. Alexis was out shopping and found these awesome gloves! Patch: Why were you at that game? In general do you go to a lot of Phillies games? Meredith: For the past 3 years we have all run in the Phillies 5k and as a gift for running and donating to the Phillies…
Sunday, April 7, 2013
The new Manayunk Bike Race organizers want to change the dynamics of the race for the better.
Friday, April 5, 2013
The new Manayunk Bike Race organizers want to change the dynamics of the race for the better.
Alan Morrison wants this incarnation of the Manayunk Bike Race to be different. He talks in terms of the old race versus the new race. He talks about a shift in philosophy. “We’re trying to change the whole dynamic of the race,” Morrison said. “We want to give the race a European feel.” Morrison, along with his team, was brought on to revive the Manayunk Bike Race just a few weeks ago after the previous organizers and sponsors dropped out. Morrison is on the clock. The bike race is scheduled for June 2—just eight weeks away. “It’s a personal frustration of mine that we don’t have enough time to do everything that we want,” Morrison said. “But we’re trying to create an atmosphere that people want to be a part of.” To say the Manayunk …
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Who do you think is the biggest baseball fan? Vote for your favorite.
Baseball season is open and we want to know who you think is the greatest fan. Last week, we asked for nominations and now we want you to vote on the greatest fan. All you have to do is let us know the number of the picture you choose in the comments area below. Vote before 4 p.m. Thursday. The winner will move on to the regional contest and have a chance to win $250 in prizes. Prizes: Here’s a basic rundown of the rules:
Thursday, March 28, 2013
5K runs are plentiful, as usual. Which will fit your schedule?
Tired of hibernating? Lace up your shoes and get out amongst the runners for a race in April. The Philadelphia area has plenty of options, as seen below. But if you know of another local race that readers should know about, please tell us in the comments section at the end. The Zombie Run Irish Memorial 5K Walk, Roll, Run for Thought, Race for Recovery Footsteps For Friends 5K Race and 1 Mile Fun Run Running for Kling: 5K Run/Walk for WCU Grad Tracy Kling LaManna Narberth Cystic Fibrosis Run Strides for SPARC Second Annual Spring Into Fitness Run Rick's Run 5K 18th Annual Chester County Race Against Violence Conshy 5k Fun Run and 1 Mile Walk Philly Run Wild—Save the Orangutans 5K Run/Walk
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
The new 12-mile circuit travels through Manayunk, East Falls, Kelly Drive and Fairmount Park.
The new course for the Manayunk Bike Race was announced Tuesday featuring a more compact race after the future of the race was threatened earlier this year. The new course will start on the Manayunk wall loop around to Kelly Drive through East Falls then back again down Main Street. The new race will be sponsored by Parx Casino after the old race had trouble finding a corporate sponsor. There will be two races held on June 2. The first race will start at 8:30 a.m. where female riders will do the 12-mile loop five times. The men's race is set to start after the women's race finishes, and they will complete the loop 10 times. Race organizers are excited because for the first time ever, the $60,000 in prize money will be split evenly between…
It's an hour or so up Interstate 476 to the triple-A affiliate IronPigs' stadium, where a new gimmick is getting a lot of attention.
Urination-controlled video games are being installed this season at the home ballpark of the Lehigh Valley IronPigs, triple-A minor league affiliate to the Phillies, the team announced Tuesday. Bethlehem Patch reported the men's restroom games from Captive Media are a first in North America. The attached YouTube clip shows response to the games in the United Kingdom. Sensors detect the stream in each urinal and manipulate the game shown on the screen above. "Players" will have their high scores recorded and displayed in the stadium, where the types of games will rotate throughout the season. If you weren't sure whether you'd attend an IronPigs' game this season, is the novelty of this concept enough to sway you? What do you think of this …
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Many categories of tickets are sold out, but there are still some available if you want to see these great golfers competing in your neighborhood.
When tickets for the 2013 U.S. Open, to be held at Merion Golf Club, went on sale in June, many categories quickly sold out. “Due to space constraints, only 25,000 spectator tickets will be sold, which is significantly fewer tickets than a typical U.S. Open,” the ticketing website reads. Tickets for Friday, Saturday and Sunday are completely sold out, according to the ticketing site, as are passes for the entire week. But, there are still tickets available for the June 10-16 event. Monday through Wednesday are practice rounds with the tournament running Thursday through Sunday. Only one ticket type (listed below) is not yet sold out for tournament days. Still available (as of the posting of this article) are Tickets can be purchased on the…
Monday, March 18, 2013
Get the full schedule for watching the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament in Philadelphia.
With March Madness kicking off on Tuesday, sports fan are going to have the chance to watch more than 30 basketball games in the course of a week. Use this guide below to see which games will be on when, and what channel will broadcast them. To get local information for each of these channels, check out their sites below. For more information about the tournament, check out the NCAA's March Madness homepage here.
Friday, March 15, 2013
The Philadelphia Eagles announced Friday that they will no longer hold training camp at Lehigh University.
The Philadelphia Eagles are flying the Lehigh Valley coop. After 17 years, training camp will no longer be held at Lehigh University, the team announced on its website Friday. "There are so many people at Lehigh University who went above and beyond to accommodate us and to make Training Camp a special place for fans to travel each summer to get an up-close look at the team," Team President Don Smolenski said. "The city of Bethlehem has been part of our lives every summer for the past 17 years," Smolenski added. He said that the team will hold Training Camp in Philadelphia this summer both at the NovaCare Complex and at Lincoln Financial Field after staging the team’s annual preseason practices at Lehigh University for the last 17 years, a …
Debbie Thomas
3:18 pm on Monday, April 8, 2013
I am convinced that people will find any little minor thing with reference to being "inconvenienced" by the bike race, to complain about. I think more than enough notice is given with reference to streets being closed off and where to park. For heaven's sake......it IS only for one day. more ›