Tommy Vale writes about Philadelphia sports for Negadelphia.
As of 10:30 a.m. ET, Jordan Mailata is still an Eagle, and no major insider has reported talks. You're refreshing Schefter anyway, because yesterday Howie Roseman traded Jordan Davis, eight months after a $78 million extension. The number still holding Mailata is not a promise. It is about $45.3 million in dead cap, per Spotrac.
First 2-7 start since 1999. Longest losing streak since 2012's eight-game freefall. The league moved Pittsburgh to 1 p.m. on CBS. The Athletic has the playoff odds under 1 percent, via the Inquirer. Labeled Negadelphia take: this looks more like an end-of-era collapse than a Year One rebuild, and nobody has written the ending yet.
Bob Boone has died at 78, confirmed by his son Bret. He caught Tug McGraw's series-ending strikeout of Willie Wilson in Game 6 of the 1980 World Series, and he hit .412 in that Series, 7-for-17, with no strikeouts. A Philadelphia remembrance of the catcher behind that last pitch, the first title, and a three-generation baseball family.
Nine games, 28.0 points, 37.0 minutes, 5.4 assists, and an 8-1 team. We went looking for the asterisk. Here's what we found.
The Sixers are 8-1 with a roster that includes LeBron James, Joel Embiid, Jaylen Brown and Tyrese Maxey. Their local TV booth finished 29th of 30 in Awful Announcing's reader poll for the third year in a row. The idea that Marc Zumoff was part of the game without becoming the game does not fully hold up in the record.
Realmuto's OPS went .820, .762, .751, .699, .614, and it's the lowest among catchers with 400 or more plate appearances. The club wants him catching fewer games. Does that fix a bat?
Monday: "Tanner's our guy." Wednesday, reportedly: a quarterback the Eagles signed off the Cowboys' practice squad on Oct. 16. Is it a fix or a panic button? On this offense, it's a fair gamble that doesn't touch the loudest problem.
Jaylen Brown scored 30, LeBron James made his 16,000th field goal, and the Sixers are 4-0 on the road. Enjoy it. Then listen to LeBron, who says it's too early to talk about the Finals, and look at how they've been getting there.
The Eagles' All-Pro tackle put the blame on the players, not the coach. He has the stats on his side. Does owning it fix anything by Sunday?
The center wanted both ends of a back-to-back. The team said no, the foot is the stated reason, and the contract is the reason the argument matters.
Villanova's women open the 2026-27 season Sunday against Notre Dame in Rome, picked second in the Big East. Last season's three games with UConn show how big the gap to first place was, and how it moved from one game to the next.
Painter went 3-10 with a 5.40 ERA in his first big league season, then posted a 3.65 ERA over his last 11 starts. The club is preparing to enter 2027 with him in its projected rotation, and the good stretch is 61.2 innings long.
Zach Spiker's Drexel teams are 148-161 over ten seasons, and the Dragons' win total has fallen each year since 2023-24. The Coastal Athletic Association's coaches picked them ninth of 13 for 2026-27, one spot better than last year's pick.
The Union had the lowest payroll in MLS in April, the worst record in MLS before the World Cup break and the best record after it. Does the run erase the first half, and can it last?
Villanova's coach pointed to thin crowds and blamed Temple and the other schools he says "broke it off" for the end of the Big 5 as we knew it. The attendance numbers are public. So is most of the rest of the record, and it points at money.
The Eagles guaranteed Marquise "Hollywood" Brown $5 million in March, and by Over the Cap's math it cost them a projected 2027 sixth-round comp pick. Seven games in, he has played in two and caught two passes for 30 yards.
Steve Donahue won Atlantic 10 and Big 5 Coach of the Year at Saint Joseph's. Nine players who scored about 61 percent of last season's points are gone, and the A-10 picked the Hawks sixth.
The money for A.J. Brown, Cam Jurgens and Lane Johnson is already on the books. What's left to pay for is a roster with a hole at right tackle and a first-round pick that sits at No. 6 if the season ended today (Oct. 30, 2026).
The Eagles say a selection committee picked their owner for the team's Hall of Fame. Beyond one name, the team hasn't said who's on it or what role the owner played. OPINION.
The Bears just paid two first-round picks for a defensive tackle. The Eagles' highest-paid one called his own season trash. The rot goes a lot deeper than one guy.
Milwaukee won it all on less than half Philly's payroll. The Phillies' staff led MLB in WAR. Their bats and gloves finished at or near the bottom.
