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The Toronto Maple Leafs hosted the Nashville Predators, Nov. 18, when the microphone failed during the singing of the U.S. National Anthem.
The fans knew the words to The Star Spangled Banner and finished it. Remember, they are Canadians.
See it here:
Hat tip J. Christian Adams at PjMedia.com
Operation Homefront, the national non-profit that provides emergency financial and other assistance to the families of service members and wounded warriors will have its annual Freedom Walk for 2014 in Pennsylvania, starting 9 a.m., Nov. 8 at Deep Meadow Park, 1020 Horsham Road, Horsham.
Day-of registration opens at 7:30 a.m., with opening ceremonies at 8:30 a.m.
“We are honored to continue the tradition of the Freedom Walk here in Pennsylvania,” said PA/DE/NJ Executive Director Peter Stinson. “This is a great way to reflect on the lives lost in the attacks on 9/11 and to remember the sacrifices that our military has made to keep us free.”
Opening ceremonies will include local State Representative Tom Murt. State Rep. Murt, who is a retired Staff Sergeant in the Army, will conclude the ceremony with a few words of reflection before kicking off the run.
For those avid runners, there will be a professional timing service on hand to record runners’ times for the 5k component with awards given out to those who place in the top 3 of each age group with the fastest times. For those who chose to walk, there will path that will take walkers on a 1 mile long stroll through beautiful Deep Meadow Park.
Runners and walkers are encouraged to register for the event ahead of time. Registration can be done online at https://www.pretzelcitysports.com/onlineform1.php?id=270. Only those who register early will be guaranteed a t-shirt in their size.
Honor Flight Philadelphia is raffling two tickets to the Dec. 14 game between the Eagles and Dallas Cowboys at Lincoln Financial Field.
Yes, that is the game Honor Flight was lucky enough to get for this year’s raffle.
The tickets are $3 each or two for $5.
For information call Cathy at 610-613-3865 or email her here.
Honor Flight Philadelphia gives veterans an all-expense paid trip to the memorials in Washington followed by a banquet.
The Oct. 20 Sports Illustrated reports that in 2012-13 the U.S. Department of Education documented more than 1.2 million homeless students in the nation’s public elementary, middle and high schools.
This represents a 58 percent increase since 2008.
Department of Education defines homelessness as “the lack of a fixed, regular and adequate night-time residence.”
About 900,000 of the students “double up” residing with relatives or friends.
It can be found on page 54 in a story about homeless high school athletes.
Dick’s Sporting Goods ranks each state’s favorite football team by the jerseys it sells. According to this, as if week 3 in the season, the most popular team in Pennsylvania is The Steelers, who are also most beloved in Arkansas. Eagle fans can take solace in that their team is the most popular in Delaware.
In New York State, believe it or not, it is the Buffalo Bills. The Giants, though, win in New Jersey. Home field advantage there it seems.
There are strange incongruities. The favorite team in the District of Columbia is not The Redskins but the Atlanta Falcons. The Skins, however, rule in Virginia. And Nebraska.
The Rams are shut out of their home state of Missouri by The Chiefs, who also dominate neighboring Kansas.
However, they can take very cold comfort in that their jerseys sell the best in Alaska.
Philadelphia Eagles running back LeSean McCoy went to PYT, a burger joint on North Hancock Street in Philadelphia with some friends for lunch on Sept. 8.
The party was reportedly loud and rude and ended up leaving a 20 cent tip on a $61 check.
Rob Knelly, the lucky waiter, took a photo of the receipt and put it online for the world to see.
Was Knelly just a crappy waiter who deserved a bad tip? If it comes down to having to chose between a waiter and an NFL player as to whose word to accept, we think we’ll go with the waiter.
Frankly, Knelly should just be grateful he didn’t serve the meal in an elevator.
McCoy’s comment on the matter to the Philadelphia Daily News was “It’s bull—-“.
The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission is hosting a Mentored Youth Fishing Day on Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 1, on 17 Panfish Enhancement Lakes, the closest one to Delaware County being Chambers Lake in Chester County’s Hibernia Park which is on Route 82 north of Coatesville.
To encourage participation, the PFBC has reduced the price of a Labor Day one-day adult resident and Labor Day one-day adult non-resident license to just $1 on Labor Day, says State Rep. Jim Cox (R-129). With issuing agent and transaction fees, the total price for the one-day adult license is $2.70.
To participate in the Mentored Youth Fishing Day, anglers 16 years of age or older (adult anglers) must possess a valid Pennsylvania fishing license and be accompanied by a youth (less than 16 years of age) who has obtained a Mentored Youth Fishing Permit or Voluntary Youth Fishing License from the commission.
For full details on program requirements and the availability of these one-day licenses, visit the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission’s website here.
The Taney Dragons, the melting pot of a baseball team from Philadelphia with a black girl pitcher, won the hearts of all with their just-ended Little League World Series run in which they finished third in the nation.
So where does the name Taney come from? It’s from Taney Street, a four-block stretch of pavement that runs from Pine to Bainbridge just across the Schuylkill River from Penn.
And for whom is Taney Street named? That’s the irony. It is for the man who wrote the Dred Scott decision, the most racist and viciously destructive Supreme Court decision in our history.
Dred Scott was more hateful and irrational than Roe v Wade. It was more racist than Plessy v Ferguson. It was crueler than Buck vs Bell.
It declared blacks to be less than human. It started the Civil War.
Roger Taney was a Democrat — no surprise, really –from Maryland who was picked by Andrew Jackson to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in 1835 after the great John Marshall died in a stage coach accident.
It is said he favored States’ Rights but that certainly wasn’t the case concerning slavery. In 1842, he ruled that Pennsylvania could not stop a Maryland man from seizing former slaves that had taken up residence in the Keystone State.
It was in 1857, he really let the mask drop. In Dred Scott he wrote regarding blacks:
It is difficult at this day to realize the state of public opinion in regard to that unfortunate race which prevailed in the civilized and enlightened portions of the world at the time of the Declaration of Independence, and when the Constitution of the United States was framed and adopted; but the public history of every European nation displays it in a manner too plain to be mistaken. They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations, and so far unfit that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect
So much for “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal”
Those governing Philadelphia at the time apparently thought the decision was peachy. They named the street for him the next year.
Three years after that our country’s bloodiest war began. Taney died before it ended on Oct. 12, 1864, still the chief justice and giving as much grief to the Lincoln administration as he could but with his fangs largely pulled.
So thank you Mo’ne Davis and the rest of the Dragons, for the deserved mocking you gave to one of America’s great bigots.
Gentry Stein of California is the Yo Yo World Champion winning this year’s contest held in Prague in the Czech Republic, Aug. 7-9.
He is the first American to win since John Ando in 2008.
Here is Gentry with his winning routine.
Mike Iaconelli celebrating in the Delaware River Bass Paradise
Kudos to Mike Iaconelli of Pittsgrove, N.J. for winning this year’s four-day Bassmaster Elite Series fishing competition for the Delaware River.
Iaconelli took 47 pounds and 14 ounces of the fish from the river and tributaries in the event that ended Sunday, Aug. 10.
Iaconelli gets $100,000 and an instant qualification for the 2015 world championship, the Bassmaster Classic.
His prime spot was the mouth of Timber Creek in New Jersey. All his catch was largemouth bass.
He caught 80 percent of his fish on two lures: a half-founce, small-profile brown-purple finesse jig that he’s helping design for Missile Jigs; and 3/8 ounce Berkley Havoc Pit Boss that was green pumpkin and blue metalflake.