Joseph Santoliquito

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

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PhillyVoice high school football Top 10: Chichester is winning for the first time in over a decade

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

Philly native and WVU RB Leddie Brown stayed in school last year, and it could pay off big time

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

PhillyVoice High School Football Top 10: Quakertown stands on the brink of history

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

PhillyVoice High School Football Top 10: Don't sleep on North Penn

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

Is Imhotep's Enai White the nation's top pass rusher? Top colleges are believing the hype

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

PhillyVoice High School Football Top 10: Here comes Chester

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

PhillyVoice High School Football Top 10: Rivals St. Joe’s Prep, La Salle meet in battle of area's top teams

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

PhillyVoice high school football Top 10: St. Augustine, Millville face off in South Jersey showdown Friday

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

Philly police officer Chris Daukaus to fight in 4th UFC bout Saturday

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

PhillyVoice high school football Top 10: La Salle replaces St. Joe’s Prep as area’s new No. 1

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.

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