In the neighborhood

215 Sports is a great Philly Sports Blog I just stumbled upon that follows the same template of this site – report on all things sports-related in Philly.  Yet while I stick more to editorials and opinions, they are more about news updates and trade rumors.  So check them out and let me know what you think!

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NBA All-Star Dance Off

So what was your favorite part of this past weekend in the NBA?  Here’s mine:

New widget

I wanted a way to add short posts to this site without getting in the way of the content, so I thought a widget would work well because it would be off to the site.  There is a social networking site I heard about called “Status“, which allows people with a common interest to post Twitter-like updates to a common thread.

Vote 4 Joe

Joe Paterno

New and Improved

I have added a few new features to the site to make it more readable, to help you find specific content faster, and hopefully be more interesting.  I’m always looking for new improvements, so feel free to make suggestions.

• New Title – I used to have the “4 for 4″ in the tagline, but there isn’t one for this theme
• Categories for each team (Eagles, Flyers, Phillies, Sixers) and “Other” for posts like this
• A “Keep Reading” tag, so you can scroll through articles faster and see more per page (for posts more than two paragraphs)
• Photos – breaks up the text and gives you an immediate context of the content
• Recent Comments – moved up above links, now that I have some!
• A Contact Page to send me an email if you don’t want to post a comment

Now that you can search through articles by a specific team, how do you rank them?  Here’s mine:

1. Phillies – I played baseball the most and it was the first sport I really got into watching as well; also went to a ton of games with my dad as a kid – I grew up at the Vet
2. Eagles – This is a football town, and football has all the elements for a great story (played 1 year as offensive right tackle)
3. Sixers – Grew up going to some games with my dad, followed in his footsteps
4. Flyers – Will root for them in the playoffs, but never played it and don’t like watching on TV

Cheesesteak of Suffering

If you have a Mac, why not add this widget? You get 4 styles to choose from, and now you can literally know, up to the second, how long it has been since we’ve had a championship in this town.

This is where we are as of this post

* Download here.

I got blogged —>

Check out my blogged.com page where you can rate and review this blog!  It’s pretty awesome, I think.  I claimed ownership and put this cool link on my navigation bar to the right.  They don’t make you put anything up on your site, but after I checked it out and liked it, I figured it was good promotion.  I don’t care where you read my posts as long as you can get them!  Anyway, now that there is only 1 team to root for during the next few months, I’ll be posting less until the Eagles start their preseason.  I don’t want to blog just for the sake of creating content; I want it to be good and have a purpose.  So as often as I can, I’ll write about how the Phillies are doing.

Man, Chase Utley is a beast.