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.
October 29, 2021
high school football top 10
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Joseph Santoliquito
The history of losing has been a long one at Chichester. It’s believed that the Eagles haven’t had a winning season since 2005. Chichester hasn’t won the Del-Val League since 1996. The Eagles haven’t played in nor won a district playoff game in over a decade.
October 28, 2021
College Football
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Joseph Santoliquito
Nine months ago, Leddie Brown stared down at a list of doubt, smacked his hand on his forehead and laughed. Everything he has always been able to do on a football field suddenly came with question marks.
October 22, 2021
Rankings
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Joseph Santoliquito
As far as anyone knows, and what Quakertown coach George Banas was recently told, it’s been since 1956 that Quakertown has gone 10-0 in football.
October 15, 2021
Rankings
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Joseph Santoliquito
Legendary North Penn coach Dick Beck had a feeling this was possible. Entering the eighth week of the season, it is and remains possible—an undefeated year.
October 14, 2021
Football
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Joseph Santoliquito
A long, lean arm rose from the vocal clatter in the end zone on a sweaty, early-September Saturday afternoon. The extended index finger at the end bent in an unusual direction—back at the owner, Enai White.
October 8, 2021
High School Football
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Joseph Santoliquito
There are some schools earmarked as “football schools,” like St. Joe’s Prep, and some labeled “basketball schools,” like traditional Southeastern Pennsylvania perennial state contender Chester.
October 1, 2021
High School Football
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Joseph Santoliquito
The La Salle seniors weren’t even freshmen the last time the Explorers beat their Catholic League Red Division archrival St. Joseph’s Prep. The Hawks own a five-year, nine-game winning streak over La Salle, which during that stretch has been outscored 349-125, with Prep averaging 38.7 points/per game to La Salle’s 13.8.
September 24, 2021
High School Football
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Joseph Santoliquito
September isn’t over yet, and in the West Jersey Football League American Division, St. Augustine will visit Millville at 6 p.m. in one of South Jersey’s biggest games this season.
September 24, 2021
UFC
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Joseph Santoliquito
Chris Daukaus was on that life track to nowhere. The kind that you’re supposed to follow. You play sports in high school, graduate, then go to college, get your degree and find a job that pays with benefits. Only each time his 1996 dark green rusty Chief Cherokee Sport huffed and puffed its way down Oxford Avenue, this small, redbrick building with the flags in front kept drawing his attention out of the corner of the passenger’s side window.
September 17, 2021
High School Football
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Joseph Santoliquito
It’s been a while. About four years. For the first time since 2017, the area has a new No. 1 team and it’s La Salle.