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Broad Street Run 2024 route, road closures and parking restrictions
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - The 45th Annual Independence Blue Cross Broad St Run is set for Sunday, May 5. While the race begins at 7:30 a.m., the 40,000 participants and multitudes of spectators will have road closures and parking restrictions to deal with starting at midnight Sunday. Broad Street Run route and mapThe 2024 race starts at Broad Street and Fisher Avenue and follows a straight route through Center City toward the Delaware River. For the first time in 3 years, the 10-mile race will end in the Navy Yard. This year's race begins at 7:30 a.m., 30 minutes earlier than normal...
Monster trucks take over Lincoln Financial Field for Monster Jam 2024
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - If you heard a deafening sound coming from Lincoln Financial Field Friday morning, you were likely listening to the roar of monster trucks warming up ahead of Monster Jam this weekend.We got up close to the 12,000-pound, 10.5-feet tall machines that are the stars of the show.I even climbed inside Grave Digger and took a lap around the course ahead of a practice day for the drivers.Last week, the Linc was transformed with 26 million pounds of dirt for the AMA Supercross Championship. This week, to make way for the massive monster trucks, Monster Jam removed some...
High school wrestling: Make that a 3-point takedown under newly adopted rules
This will take a little getting used to. Forever, fans' cries of "that's two (points)!" when a wrestler takes down another wrestler in a tight match have been heard in high school gyms across the state and country. Starting with the coming season, takedowns will now be worth three points...
Jalen Hurts Donates $200K To Philadelphia Schools For Air Conditioning Units
“Philadelphia has given me so much, and I'm excited to give back to the community in a way that supports our future leaders." Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts recently donated $200,000 to schools in Philadelphia to equip them with air conditioning units, according to NBC Philadelphia. The money will be...
Shipley Thrilled For More Practice Battles with Trotter
Two former Clemson Tigers remain teammates in Philadelphia, so the competition in practice won’t stop any time soon. Will Shipley and Jeremiah Trotter Jr. are now Eagles and the former talked about what (...)
Philadelphia 4, San Francisco 3
E_Chapman 2 (5), Sosa (3). DP_San Francisco 0, Philadelphia 2. LOB_San Francisco 8, Philadelphia 8. 2B_Estrada (7). SB_Marsh (4), Turner (10), Stott (6). Umpires_Home, Brian Walsh; First, Adam Hamari; Second, Edwin Moscoso; Third, D.J. Reyburn. T_3:00. A_40,888 (42,901).
Group that doesn’t disclose its donors paid $12K for Shapiro to attend Phillies games, other sporting events
The secrecy leaves taxpayers in the dark about who underwrites the outings and what interests they may have in state government policy. Gov. Josh Shapiro attends a Philadelphia Union game on Sept. 23, 2023. Commonwealth Media Services. Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan, and nonprofit newsroom producing investigative and public-service...
Joe Columbo sends out four winners at Harrah’s Philly
Chester, PA – Trainer Joe Columbo, the runaway leader in the training standings at the current Harrington Raceway meeting, shipped a truckload of sharp horses to Harrah’s Philadelphia on a special Derby Day card of racing and won with four of them, all four at least co-owned by his principal patrons George & Tina Dennis Racing, and all four handled by different drivers.
Baseball Game Preview: Quakertown on Home-Turf
Quakertown and Upper Dublin are an even 5-5 against one another since April of 2018, but likely not for long. The Quakertown Panthers will look to defend their home field on Friday against the Upper Dublin Cardinals at 3:30 p.m. The two teams have allowed few runs on average, (Quakertown: 2.5, Upper Dublin: 2.4) so any runs scored will be well earned.
Baseball: South Hunterdon comes close, but misses division title with loss to Manville
MANVILLE – South Hunterdon High School’s baseball team looked poised to do something the Eagles hadn’t done since 1988. Manville prevented that from happening Friday. South needed a win at Manville and at Bound Brook May 16 to earn a share of the Skyland Conference Mountain Division title with Warren Hills. But Manville’s 5-3 win left the Eagles with only a long bus ride back to Lambertville. Warren Hills is the division champ.
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