Joseph Santoliquito

Joseph Santoliquito is an award-winning sportswriter based in the Philadelphia area who has written feature stories for SI.com, ESPN.com, NFL.com, MLB.com, Deadspin and The Philadelphia Daily News. In 2006, he was nominated for an Emmy Award for a special project piece for ESPN.com called “Love at First Beep.” He is most noted for his award-winning ESPN.com feature on high school wrestler A.J. Detwiler in February 2006, which appeared on SportsCenter. In 2015, he was elected president of the Boxing Writers Association of America.

January 26, 2020

Kobe Bryant

Remembering a different Kobe Bryant

by Joseph Santoliquito

When Kobe Bryant retires after this year, he’ll have only played for two teams in his life. One is the visiting Los Angeles Lakers tonight. The other was Lower Merion, where the gym there is named after him and where his greatness was forged.

January 17, 2020

Sports Betting

AFC and NFC Championship betting advice: Both dogs are live this weekend

by Joseph Santoliquito

Each Friday for PhillyVoice, Steve Maltepes, known as “The Philly Godfather,” imparts his gambling wisdom on where the smart money is going on various pro football games this weekend. Maltepes is one of the nation’s hottest sports betting experts who appears weekly on national radio and has his own website, www.thephillygodfather.com.

January 13, 2020

College Football

Clemson's Keith Maguire the lone Philly-area player in CFP national championship game

by Joseph Santoliquito

At Clemson, there is a long-standing tradition when the Tigers emerge from the team bus and enter Memorial Stadium. Before each home game, they run down “The Hill,” which rests above the east end zone, and each player will touch Howard’s Rock. That’s when it dawned on Keith Maguire that he wasn’t in Media, Delaware County, anymore.

January 10, 2020

High School Football

Downington West star QB Will Howard ready to get his college career started early

by Joseph Santoliquito

Will Howard, the Maxwell Club Pennsylvania Player of the Year, signed with Kansas State. His family is flying down with him January 16 — and Will won’t be coming back home to Downingtown until late spring for his prom.

January 10, 2020

NFL

Divisional round NFL betting tips: Take the 49ers, Ravens against the spread

by Joseph Santoliquito

Each Friday for PhillyVoice, Steve Maltepes, known as “The Philly Godfather,” will impart his gambling wisdom on the Eagles and where the smart money is going on various pro football games this weekend. Maltepes is one of the nation’s hottest sports betting experts who appears weekly on national radio and has his own website, www.thephillygodfather.com.

January 3, 2020

NFL

NFL Wild Card betting: Take the Eagles and the first half under against Seattle

by Joseph Santoliquito

December 31, 2019

NHL

The Flyers' defense has been reborn, and so has assistant coach Mike Yeo

by Joseph Santoliquito

The dichotomy of it makes perfect sense to Mike Yeo. One moment, the 46-year-old hockey lifer from North Bay, Ontario, is being told on a Monday night that his job is over in the darkened bowels of the St. Louis Enterprise Center. The Blues only went on to win their first Stanley Cup under former Flyer/former Flyer head coach Craig Berube. The next moment, Yeo is fishing on Lake Erie on a sunny April weekday when a call came about his hockey life receiving a rebirth.

December 27, 2019

Eagles

NFL Week 17 betting advice: Take the Giants and the points against the Eagles

by Joseph Santoliquito

December 20, 2019

Flyers

Carter Hart, other NHL goalies use intense training to develop 'goalie vision'

by Joseph Santoliquito

In the hockey world, it’s called vision training, but Edmonton-based performance psychologist John Stevenson, who works with Hart and Holtby, doesn’t really like the term. Stevenson calls it cognitive perceptual training, because he feels it’s not just the eyes that are being exercised to pick up the puck and the play, but it’s the brain, too.

December 20, 2019

Eagles