Which Eagles will still be around on Tuesday, how good are the Phillies' recently-acquired prospects, and why isn't Fanatics CEO Michael Rubin afraid of failure?
Eagles general manager Howie Roseman prior to the team's preseason finale against the Vikings at Lincoln Financial Field on Saturday.The season doesn’t start until next Friday night, but these next few days are going to be important for the Eagles — especially the players on the back half the roster, the ones clinging to spots in the hopes that they’ll make the team’s 53-man roster. The Eagles will need to make those cuts before Tuesday’s deadline.
“I just wish we’d stop killing each other,” Chester quarterback Jalen Harris said. “Teens don’t even get to grow up.”Lafayette Hill native Michael Rubin is well known as the billionaire founder and CEO of Fanatics and one of the founding forces behind the REFORM Alliance, a nonprofit dedicated to parole and probation reform. And while his more recent ventures — including last weekend’s Fanatics Fest — have been successful, it didn’t start out that way.
The former part-owner of the Sixers talked more about his business roots, the growth of Fanatics, why he won’t be returning to sports ownership,When Patrick Sharp retired in 2018 after 15 NHL seasons and three Stanley Cups, the former Flyers forward tried his best to stay off his skates. He became a household name as a television analyst, but the game kept pulling him back. Except this time, the pull was coming from an outdoor roller hockey rink minutes from his home in Connecticut.
“Slowly I got back on my rollerblades and I found that it just reminded me of how I felt when I was a kid, skating in my backyard,” Sharp told The Inquirer. So last June, he stepped away from the camera and took a job with the Flyers as a special advisor to hockey operations. His new gig has him involved in all aspects of the department, namely player development.drove in seven runs to tie the Phillies’ franchise record for the most RBIs by a catcher in single game.
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