Evan Macy

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Evan Macy is the managing sports editor at PhillyVoice.com. Before spending five years at Metro Philly as sports editor, Evan worked at ESPN in Bristol CT, and has experience at several other smaller publications on the Northeast coast. Career highlights for Evan, a Temple grad and Lancaster native include covering Super Bowl LII, the 2016 DNC, the 2017 NFL Draft and a bevy of playoff games and golf tournaments.

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October 5, 2018

Eagles

Expert on Carson Wentz' reconstructed knee: 'Every time he's on the field, every play that's taken is a risk'

It doesn't matter how strong you are, how hard you work or how much good luck you get — 15 hits are 15 hits.

October 5, 2018

Fantasy football

Fantasy football: Start T.J. Yeldon, Sit Patrick Mahomes and Alshon Jeffery, other Week 5 sit/start advice

Another weekend approaching, another slate of countless minutes staring at your fantasy roster. Here's who we strongly recommend sitting and starting in Week 5:

October 3, 2018

Fantasy football

Fantasy football waiver wire: Pick up Nyheim Hines, Taylor Gabriel before Week 5

There are a few different strategies for waiver wire pick ups during the season in fantasy football. Here. we name a player at each position to try and find and pick up this week:

October 3, 2018

Phillies

Why 2018 offseason is Phillies' most important in nearly a decade

"The last six weeks have been about as hard a professional six-week period as I have had," Phillies GM Matt Klentak said. "It's been really hard… We live in a very binary world where it's either black or white, good or bad, there's no in between. The reality of this season is for four months we were a much improved team, having a lot of fun winning a lot of baseball games doing a lot of things well."

October 1, 2018

Fantasy football

Fantasy football Week 5 injuries: The latest on Rob Gronkowski, Leonard Fournette, T.Y. Hilton and others

This week, there aren't so many "big names" on our fantasy football injury watch list as there are, well, a lot of names. If one of the players mentioned below are on your roster, we have some advice and updated injury news to better help you prepare for Week 5.

September 30, 2018

Eagles

Eagles beat themselves with costly penalties in brutal overtime loss

Against the Titans, penalties in key spots cost the Birds their third win of the season as they fell to 2-2 following a 26-23 setback in overtime Sunday. With the game more or less won twice following a go-ahead Jake Elliott kick, a durable defense was unable to come up with the third walk-off goalline stand of this short season.

September 28, 2018

Fantasy football

Fantasy football: Start Kenyan Drake and Keelan Cole, sit Titans RB in Week 4, and other sit, start advice

As we do every week, we've compiled a brief list — two players from each position — of unconventional players to sit or start in Week 4 of your fantasy league. This means, of course, stick with obvious starts like Melvin Gordon and DeAndre Hopkins. But if you have one of the players listed below on your roster, think long and hard about if they're a suitable play in the upcoming action.

September 27, 2018

Flyers

Man inside Flyers' original mascot, Slapshot, has some advice for Gritty

Dennis Boyle has a unique place in Flyers' history, one nearly as rare as the team's two Stanley Cup victories. Long before Gritty became the talk of social media (and nightmare of children everywhere), he was the team's first mascot — Slapshot.

September 27, 2018

Phillies

After late-season collapse, Phillies GM says 'Significant changes are necessary'

It was six weeks ago that the Phillies were contenders. Leading the Braves by a game in the NL East on August 11, Philadelphia was 14 games above .500, had a Cy Young front-runner as their ace and were exceeding expectations all across the big leagues.

September 26, 2018

Eagles

NFL Rumors: Are Eagles 'sleeper team' to trade for Le'Veon Bell?

Across the state in Pittsburgh, reports have surfaced that the Steelers are actively entertaining trade offers for star running back Le'Veon Bell, who continues to hold out after refusing to sign a franchise tag following a summer that did not land him the big contract he desired.

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