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.
December 3, 2021
Football
PhillyVoice High School Football Top 10: St. Joe's Prep, Garnet Valley set for epic state semifinal clash
In August, in the minds of many that follow area high school football, one team was already penciled in for a December date in the PIAA Class 6A state playoffs, where the other team was an afterthought.November 27, 2021
Boxing
Jersey Joe Walcott lives on thanks to Camden waterfront statue that was 10 years in the making
Stare at it long enough and any moment you would swear the 8-foot bronze statue of Jersey Joe Walcott standing there on the Camden waterfront is about to step off its pedestal and start throwing punches again.November 26, 2021
Rankings
PhillyVoice High School Football Top 10: Imhotep gets shot at revenge in state 5A quarterfinals
Imhotep Charter coach Devon Johnson carries an even demeanor. During games, it’s Johnson who is the calming presence for the Panthers. Sure, he might get flustered over a penalty he felt shouldn’t have been called, like any football coach would.November 19, 2021
Rankings
PhillyVoice High School Football Top 10: Weapon X Rocco Nicholl has St. Joe’s Prep back on top
As the season lurched forward, the question hovered: When would the real St. Joseph’s Prep team emerge, or would it surface at all this season?November 18, 2021
Villanova
Andy Talley set to become Villanova's first member of College Football Hall of Fame
It was an annual fall ritual. Little Andy Talley and his buddies would crouch down as they neared the cyclone fence that encircled Villanova Stadium. Then, one by one, they would take turns holding the fence up as the others crawled underneath.November 16, 2021
Football
Thriving after a fresh start in the CFL, Shawn Oakman still has NFL dreams
Six years ago, Shawn Oakman was a famous viral meme looking like a 10-foot-tall cyborg in a gold Baylor helmet ready to smash a whole city with one sweeping swipe of his right hand. A year later, the 2011 Penn Wood graduate was projected to go high in the NFL Draft. On April 3, 2016, he was accused of sexual assault. A few weeks later, he heard the eerie metallic clang of iron prison doors closed behind him.November 12, 2021
High School Football
PhillyVoice High School Football Top 10: Garnet Valley seems like it’s getting respect now
These numbers talk. Well, not so much talk but yell. They’re unavoidable, emphatic, and tell the tale of a program that should actually get far more respect than it does outside of Delaware County.November 5, 2021
Rankings
PhillyVoice High School Football Top 10: Setting the table for the District 1 playoffs
It would be a good way to go out. Garnet Valley coach Mike Ricci is in his 37th year—and final season—as head coach of the Jaguars and 38th overall year in coaching.November 4, 2021
Eagles
Eagles to honor two of the Greatest Generation's heroes ahead of Veterans Day
Those who have been through it never want to talk about it. It’s saved for only those singular ones like themselves, those have been to scorched-earth places no one wants to tread, who saw the cruelty of mankind at its utmost.November 3, 2021
NFL
From Eagles lineman to unpaid intern, Barrett Brooks paid his dues and earned it the hard way
The driver’s side window was down with a long meaty left arm, the size of most human’s thighs, casually dangling out by the side.Videos
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