BY ROCK HOFFMAN Langhorne native and Neshaminy High School grad James Franklin has been named head coach at Penn State replacing Bill O’Brien, who left the Nittany Lions’ program to become head coach of the Houston Texans. Franklin, who played collegiately at East Stroudsburg University where he was twice an All-PSAC quarterback, takes over at […]
The Eagles are back in the playoffs for the first time since January 9, 2011 when they lost in the Wild Card round to the Green Bay Packers 21-16.
The Eagles (10-6) have lost three straight playoff games but hope to end the streak Saturday night when they host the New Orleans Saints (11-5) in the Wild Card round once again.
The Eagles take on the New Orleans Saints in the Wild Card round Saturday night at Lincoln Financial Field (8 09 PM, NBC). The winner advances to the Divisional round at the Carolina Panthers the following weekend.
The improbable happened. The Eagles, a team many thought was a rag-tag bunch with a few good players such as LeSean McCoy and DeSean Jackson. They were going to have a bad defense and a rookie head coach in Chip Kelly who had never coached a down of NFL football at any level before he took the reigns as head coach of the Eagles last spring.
The Eagles were going nowhere…right?
Today the Eagles are NFC East Champs after knocking off the Dallas Cowboys 24-22 and are hosting a playoff game Saturday night January 4 at 8 p.m.
The Birds jumped on Chicago early and often taking a 21-0 lead after the first quarter, 24-3 at the half on route a stunning 54-11 victory over the Bears, sending a message to the Lone Star State that the Eagles want the NFC Division title and wanted no parts of resting players because of a fluke in the standings.
Brian Baldinger, 13-year NFL veteran shares how the right exercise, diet and MHP Supplements can help slow down the aging process in everyone who buys in.
Once a year these two Division 1 programs rise from the status of mediocre or solid to join together and become one of the most iconic and watched sporting events in the country. Navy defeated Army for the 12th straight time.
Congratulations are in order for St. Joe’s Prep (13-3) for winning the PIAA AAAA State Championship and for also being selected as the No. 1 ranked team in the final Footballstories Super 30 High Schol Football teams for 2013.
The Hawks body of work in the playoffs was the difference as the Prep was able to hang in there while its starting quarterback and leader Chris Martin was on the mend from a leg injury.
Cherokee won the South Jersey Group V title and finished No. 2
Eagles get blown out by Vikings on the road then Cowboys blow big lead to Green Bay at home setting up showdown for NFC East in Dallas December 29
This year Navy has logged another winning season, possibly another Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy and a another bowl game.
On December 30, 2013 in Fort Worth, Texas the Midshipmen take on Middle Tennessee in the Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl.
