SPORTS
June 18, 2013 | By Frank Fitzpatrick, Inquirer Columnist
Things we learned from the 2013 U.S. Open at Merion: Philadelphia sports fans aren't the ogres nearly everyone imagines them to be, at least not the fans who showed up at Merion this week. They were, for the most part, positive, polite, and well-behaved. Even those who heckled, such as those targeting Sergio Garcia, didn't bring their "A" game. "The things they yell, they're very common," Garcia said Saturday. "They're not very creative. " Garcia won't be back anytime soon.
SPORTS
June 18, 2013
The Philadelphia Amateur begins Tuesday with 36-hole stroke-play qualifying at Aronimink Golf Club in Newtown Square and St. Davids Golf Club in Wayne. A field of 133 will compete for 32 spots in match play, which will be at Aronimink. The championship will continue with two rounds of match play Wednesday and Thursday, and conclude with a 36-hole final Saturday. Two-time winner Michael Hyland of Little Mill leads a list of six former champions in the field. COLLEGES: Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel still has three years of eligibility at Texas A&M, but a tweet the quarterback sent out Sunday has some wondering how long he will stay.
NEWS
June 17, 2013 | By Mike Newall, Inquirer Staff Writer
Chapter 1: Beau from Minnesota Monday, she had written. A date. His first in Philadelphia. Uff-da! That's what Beau Zabel said when he was excited. And Beau Zabel was beyond excited. He had been in Philadelphia 42 days and he was swooning in the newness. Like big-boy summer camp. None of it felt real yet. The Italian Market rowhouse with his roommate, Meg Guerreiro, and Kismet, her Maltese Yorkie. His soon-to-start student teaching program. His daily explorations with his Not for Tourists Guide to Philadelphia.
NEWS
June 14, 2013 | By Edward Colimore and Ben Finley, Inquirer Staff Writers
On the Admiral Wilson Boulevard in Camden, the former Sears, Roebuck & Co. store is slowly coming down - but not without the eyes of city inspectors closely watching. Is the work area surrounded by a barricade? Is water available to wet down the dust? Is the appropriate equipment being used, and is it being operated safely? The inspectors visit the site daily, taking photos of the progress, said James Rizzo, construction expert in Camden's Department of Code Enforcement, Building Bureau.
BUSINESS
June 14, 2013 | By Andrew Maykuth, Inquirer Staff Writer
Though there are no natural-gas wells near Southeastern Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia region will receive nearly $3.4 million of the $202.5 million collected last year from the state's Marcellus Shale impact fee. Philadelphia alone will get nearly $1.3 million from the fee imposed on "unconventional" wells drilled into deep shale formations, according to figures released Thursday by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission. Four suburban counties will split about $2.1 million.
BUSINESS
June 14, 2013 | By Andrew Maykuth, Inquirer Staff Writer
Philadelphia will receive nearly $1.3 million of the $202.5 million collected last year from the Marcellus Shale impact fee, according to figures released Thursday by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission. Disbursements to counties and municipalities, which declined slightly from 2011 because the price of natural gas dropped, are based on a combination of population and well-drilling activity. Montgomery County will receive $673,000; Bucks County, $525,000; Delaware County, $469,000, and Chester County, $422,000.
NEWS
June 14, 2013 | By Virginia A. Smith, Inquirer Staff Writer
Crazier things have made it, even made it big, in the American marketplace, but fungal furniture - furniture made from mushroom roots - may be a little too "out there" for most people. Yet "out there" - in the marketplace - is where Brian McClellan, 23, and Merjan Tara Sisman, 21, aspire to be with the mushroom chair and pendant lights they created for their senior project at Philadelphia University this year. "I hate mushrooms, sadly. The texture is too funky. But I love their growing capabilities," says McClellan, who graduated in May and is working part time as a bartender while he refines the design of his pendants.
NEWS
June 13, 2013 | By Bonnie L. Cook, Inquirer Staff Writer
A memorial service will be held Wednesday, June 12, for Samuel E. Line Jr., 89, of Newtown Square, a decorated World War II veteran and Bell Telephone executive who died Saturday, May 18. Mr. Line died of congestive heart failure at Bryn Mawr Hospital. Born in Harrisburg, Mr. Line was a graduate of John Harris High School, Harrisburg, and Harvard College, now Harvard University, where he received a bachelor's degree in government in 1943. Mr. Line was a watch and division officer with the rank of lieutenant junior grade in the Navy.
SPORTS
June 13, 2013 | By Joe Juliano, Inquirer Staff Writer
Chances are you will see a sleepy Phil Mickelson playing his opening round Thursday morning at Merion. Mickelson returned home Monday to suburban San Diego to practice and to attend the eighth-grade graduation of his daughter Amanda on Wednesday. A spokesman for the four-time major champion said Mickelson was expected to leave Wednesday night on his private jet and arrive in Philadelphia at 4:15 a.m., less than three hours before his scheduled tee time. USGA takes on slow play The normally staid and proper United States Golf Association has turned to the late Rodney Dangerfield, of all people, for the title of its new program designed to combat slow play among recreational golfers.
NEWS
June 12, 2013 | BY JOHN F. MORRISON, Daily News Staff Writer morrisj@phillynews.com, 215-854-5573
NATE WASHINGTON and his best pal, Bill Jones, were having a glass of wine one day and one of them said, "Well, what do we do next?" Nate had just gotten out of the Air Force and Bill the Navy, and they were at loose ends. "I know," one of them exclaimed. "Let's go to college. " That's how fateful, life-changing decisions are sometimes made. So Nate went to Temple and Bill went to Pittsburgh on the GI Bill. After graduating from Temple in 1957, Nate went to work for the city Recreation Department and advanced through the ranks to become the recreation commissioner in the '80s.