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.
July 23, 2021
Olympics
Philly area will be well represented at 2020 Olympics in Tokyo
Over the next three weeks, Philadelphia will have a voice on the world stage at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.July 13, 2021
MLB Draft
Three local high schoolers taken in early rounds of MLB Draft must now decide on their futures
They each sat there impatiently, Chase Petty in Denver’s Bellco Theatre on Sunday night, and Anthony Solometo and Lonnie White Jr. on Monday morning in their homes. They each got their calls, in due time, in the 2021 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft.July 8, 2021
MLB
Meet Chase Petty and his triple-digit fastball, coming soon to an MLB ballpark near you
Triple digits blink on the guns, followed by knowing nods from Major League scouts. It’s been that way for a few years now for Chase Petty, Mainland’s flame-throwing pitcher who’s projected to go in the first round of Sunday’s 2021 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft.July 2, 2021
MLB
Three for the show: Trio of local high school baseball players could go in first round of MLB Draft
Three Philly-area high school baseball players could be first round picks in the 2021 MLB Draft on Sunday, July 11: Malvern Prep outfielder Lonnie White Jr., Bishop Eustace pitcher Anthony Solometo and Mainland High School pitcher Chase Petty. It would be unprecedented to have as many as three Philadelphia-area players taken in the first round of the MLB Draft.June 30, 2021
MMA
How Philly went from UFC afterthought to hotbed of MMA fighting talent
The seed started 21 years ago among a tight-knit group of friends in a dimly lit basement in the Frankford section of Philadelphia. You know the kind, where you enter through rusted double-trap street cellar doors whose metal loops you’ve tripped over a thousand times, down tiny, creaky wooden steps you hope don’t collapse underneath your feet.June 10, 2021
NFL
'Finished Business' tells the recent history of Philly sports through the story of Ray Didinger
The Prince of the City’s sports soul would rather that you don’t call him that. He would much rather have you call him “Ray,” short for Ray Didinger.June 8, 2021
High Schools
The pandemic was tough for high school athletes, especially the girls
The pandemic was tough for high school athletes, especially the girlsJune 1, 2021
NFL
Philly native — and NFL Coach of the Year — Kevin Stefanski has a tough act to follow in Year 2
He made Will and Gabe converts. If Kevin Stefanski deserved an award for anything in the 2020 COVID-19 challenged NFL season, it may have been for that alone: Turning his 11- and 9-year-old sons into avid Cleveland Browns’ fans.May 27, 2021
College Football
La Salle High School grad Jimmy Morrissey is Philly’s football “Rocky”
The shadow crept its way across Jimmy Morrissey’s bedroom desk over a small, white legal pad on a fading January afternoon in 2016, and whispered in his ear “too slow,” “too short,” “too small,” and that “you’re not good enough for a full scholarship.”May 25, 2021
NFL
After controversial finish, Giants coach Joe Judge ready to take next step in Year 2
The New York Giants had not won a game yet and Joe Judge was smiling under a drenched blue cap dripping rain from its bill on a dreary, overcast October weekday. He speaks in matter-of-fact tones. He hears himself in matter-of-fact tones. He can be very demanding. He can be very critical. He doesn’t play rock, paper, scissors.Videos
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