Come on... can you blame the guy?......

The Daily News reports that Chase Utley has apologized for dropping an F-bomb at last night's All-Star Home Run Derby. The obscenity was caught by the ESPN microphone Utley was wearing as he took the field, an apparent response to the cacophony of boos that met the second baseman when he was introduced.......

TelePhillyist doesn't usually publish on the weekends, but we just had to sneak on and let you know that even geeks who don't care about football have a good reason to tune into the Super Bowl tonight. At approximately 7:30PM, a new ad for the upcoming Iron Man film (due for release May 2nd) will premiere during the game. Shortly after its TV debut, the ad will be available on Apple.com, Marvel.com, and the......

Phillyist just came across an interesting tidbit while scouring philly.com blogs: The Temple Owls and coach Fran Dunphy will be taking the subway to their game versus the Duke Blue Devils at the Wachovia Center tonight. Coach says, "This is a tremendous opportunity for our team to travel as Philadelphians do on a daily basis to and from work," and so it is. Good for them. But just a heads up to all those......

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. College Football Bowl Games (Mon, 7:30PM-11:30PM, ESPN; Tue, 5PM-9PM, ABC; Tue, 8:30PM-12:30AM, Fox; Wed, 8:15PM-12:15AM, Fox; Thu, 8:15PM-12:15AM, Fox; Sun, 8PM-12AM, ESPN) - The Chick-Fil-A Bowl: Auburn vs. Clemson, The Rose Bowl: Illinois vs. Southern California, The Sugar Bowl: Hawaii vs. Georgia, The Fiesta Bowl: West Virginia vs. Oklahoma, The Orange Bowl: Kansas vs. Virginia Tech, and The GMAC Bowl: Bowling Green vs. Tulsa. Dick Clark's New......

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. What Would Jesus Really Do? (Mon, 8PM-9PM, CNN) - A discussion of how Jesus might respond to various contemporary issues, like the war in Iraq, global warming, and the divide between rich and poor. Includes commentary from various "experts," including Jerry Falwell. Christmas Specials (Mon, 8PM-9PM, ABC; Mon, 8PM-11PM, NBC; Mon, 8PM-10PM, AMC; Mon, 10PM-11:30PM, WHYY) - Some of these have already played this month, and we......

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. All-Star Holiday Spirit (Mon, 9PM-10PM, Food Network) - The Food Network stars - including food nerd Alton Brown, freakish bird-woman Giada De Laurentiis, the hated Rachael Ray, Ina Garten, Tyler Florence, and obsessive lush Sandra Lee - prepare holiday party dishes. Should be a good time! Charlie Brown Christmas (Tue, 8PM-9PM, ABC) - The 1965 classic, accompanied by a behind-the-scenes making-of special hosted by Whoopi Goldberg, and......

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. Nova (Tue, 8PM-9PM, WHYY & WLVT) - This episode apparently consists mainly of footage of a war between termites and fierce, dragon-shaped army ants. The ants are used by a Cameroon tribe known as the Mofu to protect their huts and granaries from the termites. Good times! Wired Science (Wed, 8PM-9PM, WHYY & WLVT) - As always, a great big hodge podge of crazy applications of science......

LAist began the month with a new food series exploring the popular and unknown late night eats around town. If a Top Chef winner opened up a late night spot in Los Angeles, denizens would flock it, yet the LA Times and other media might be wary. Turning to sports, the Dodger season was quite memorable in the way that it imploded and the LA County Sheriff's Department made some games of their own......

Sorry there was no Eagles Diary last week. I turned on the channel the game was supposed to be on, saw a team in a blue-and-yellow get up that a Division Nine college football team wouldn’t wear and assumed that the game got canceled. But anyway, I was wrong. The game took place and the Eagles actually scored 56 points and obliterated the Detroit Lions. So I had high hopes for the Eagles latest square-off......

Fresh off a thousand word treatise on how some dude recently ate potato chips while peeing in the stall next to me, I did not have the energy to write a linear story on the Eagles' Monday night debacle against the Redskins. Instead I decided to take a page out of the book of ESPN.com’s comedic genius Bill Simmons, and write about the hometown team in diary style. So to the anonymous Philly expat in......

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. Monday Night Football: Redskins at Eagles (Mon, 8:30PM-11:30PM, ABC & ESPN) - The Eagles have their first home game on a Monday night against a team they really should be able to beat. In fact, people are already calling this one a "must-win" game for the Eagles. We're trying to remain hopeful and confident... but last week's showing was pretty poor... SPAM: The Documentary (Tue, 11PM-12AM, Court......

Stephen A. Smith is an evil, evil man. There is simply no other way that this can be said. His predictable contrarianism and sloppy sentence structure have polluted the Philadelphia Inquirer for too long. In a sports page loaded with boring, mind-numbing craftsmen (basketball analyst David Aldridge being one notable exception), he stands out for his lack of insight and excess of pointless bluster. Expecting to get insight from a Stephen A. Smith column is......

Please welcome to the ranks of the Phillyist staff Mr. Chris Zakorchemny, who'll be helping us fill in the gaps in our sports coverage this summer. Chris found us (and we found him) through Flickr. Yay, sports! Yay, Flickr! Where’s Pat Croce when you need him? Per usual, the 76ers are without luck, and ended up with the twelfth pick in the 2007 NBA draft. But before we start to feel like the Sixers should......

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. Philly Sports (Mon, 7PM-10PM, ESPN2 & CSN) - You can flip between Comcast Sportsnet and ESPN2 Monday night and watch two different Philly sports teams battle it out. On ESPN2, it's Arena Football with the Soul at Chicago, and on Comcast Sportsnet it's the Phillies at the Braves. With two Philly games going on at the same time, there's a better chance one of them will win!......

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. The Shield (Tue, 10PM-11:10PM, FX) - The sixth season of this popular cop show starts off with a flurry activity, as Claudette assigns the team to a fire at a methadone clinic because she wants Vic off the case of Lem's murder. She always tells Vic the brass wants him to retire. Meanwhile, there are confrontations, erratic behavior, a robbery at a porn shop, and a crime......

Spring Training is all but finished, and that local sports team heads back to Philly to open the season on April 2 (that's Monday, folks). If you're keeping track though, you'll need to get in on your office fantasy baseball pool before that. Unless you do the second half only season, which is just silly. Anyhow, it's not too late to get a group together. Invite your lady friends too; chances are that they'll eschew......

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. Billboard Music Awards (Mon; 8PM-10PM; Fox) - The 17th annual awards show comes at you live from Las Vegas with performances by Janet Jackson, Fergie, the Killers, Gwen Stefani, Ludacris, the Fray, and Mary J. Blige. Plenty of other stars of the music world will act as presenters including, unfortunately, Flavor Flav. (Link) Monday Night Football: Panthers at Eagles (Mon; 8:30PM-11:30PM; ESPN & ABC [WPVI]) - These......

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. Monday Night Football: Giants at Cowboys (Mon; 8:30PM-11:30PM; ESPN) - This should be an interesting game, and much easier for Philly fans to watch than another agonizing Eagles game. And hey, you might get to see T.O. and the hated Cowboys get beat. (Link) Fear Files: Zombies! (Tue; 8PM-9PM; History Channel) - Oh, yeah, it's Halloween all right. This special looks at stories about zombies and voodoo......

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. Monday Night Football: Packers at Eagles (Mon; 8:30PM-11:30PM; ESPN or ABC [WPVI]) - The Eagles get a Monday night game. Here's hoping they keep up the good work and don't crack under the pressure. If you're not near a TV at the time, but you are near the internet, you might be interested to know that the game will be live-blogged at this address (thanks, Seth).......

After last night's loss to Houston, we no longer care what Will Bunch (Ryan Howard doesn't pitch) or ESPN's Alan Schwarz (and his interestingly anonymous Phillies fan reader) say. We're ready to say that the Phillies are out of the Wild Card race, and we're so sure of it that we're writing this post before San Diego inevitably beats Colorado and takes a three-game lead over the Phillies. Because the Phillies play the first......

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. Vanished (Mon; 9PM-10PM; Fox) - The pilot episode for a new series focusing on an FBI investigation into the disappearance of a senator's wife. A TV reporter played by Rebecca Gayheart seems to be the main character. No doubt she'll figure out the whole mystery way before the FBI. (Link) Monday Night Football: Cowboys vs. Saints (Mon; 8PM-11PM; ESPN) - We're tempted to watch, in the hopes......

What's interesting on TV this week. Dirty Jobs (Tue; 9PM-10PM; Discovery) - One of the filthy tasks Mike takes on in this episode is in Philadelphia - he's helping restoring a church's antique pipe organ. (Official site) Eureka (Tue; 9PM-11PM; Sci-Fi) - An interesting-looking new series about a top-secret town in the US populated by scientists and their families. In this debut episode, an accident lands a US Marshall and his daughter in the town;......

Yes, you read the headline right -- it was a pretty good night for Philadelphia basketball in the NBA Draft. Not as good as it could have been, but at the moment, we aren't complaining. The 76ers came into the night with one pick, the 13th in the first round. They used it to select Thabo Sefolosha, a swingman who ESPN analysts touted as a very good choice. But while the talking heads were raving......

And so, after lots of posts on the subject on Phillyist and a ridiculous amount of hype across the planet, the World Cup begins today. The first game kicks off today at noon Eastern, with hosts Germany taking on Costa Rica. Every match will be broadcast in high definition on ESPN, ESPN2 or ABC, with Spanish-language (but standard definition) telecasts of each game on Univision or Telefutura. For most of the group stage, games......

Phillyist is well aware that even though Philadelphia sports fans are the most passionate in this country, they tend to also be quite parochial. But next week, the single most important sporting event on the PLANET, the soccer World Cup, kicks off in Germany. Now Phillyist has long been passionate about soccer, even though it has to look hard to find places to indulge its love for the beautiful game. This year, though, it......

So the big, bad Bonds rolled into town this weekend and had little to show for his three-game effort. Yes, he did hit home run number 713 last night, bringing him closer to his asterisked place in the baseball ledgers, but he was far from the real show this weekend. That spot was reserved for the Phillies, who swept the San Francisco Giants to build up to an eight-game winning streak. How did this......

Various events have occurred recently in Philly sports that we're pretty sure you couldn't possibly have missed, what with the intense reporting of them in all local news outlets, but we'll mention them here anyway. First of all, the Eagles finally officially released T.O. And there was much rejoicing. Although, seriously, it is kind of sad to see him go. He was a potent offensive weapon when he wasn't being an asshole (and actually, even......

- CBS is reporting during their broadcast of today's Chargers/Jets game that Andy Reid has announced that Terrell Owens is not suspended, but rather, inactive. Reid wishes to keep his options open, he told reporters. We're not really NFL rules experts here at Phillyist, but we're pretty sure coaches can activate and deactivate players up until game time. So, who knows. There are about 5 more hours to go until game time, so Owens could......

Howard Eskin just reported on WIP that Eagles star wide receiver Terrell Owens will be suspended indefinitely for conduct detrimental to the team. Owens will definitely miss Sunday night's game against the Washington Redskins, and may in fact be out longer than that. Owens recently criticized quarterback Donovan McNabb and the entire Eagles organization in an interview with ESPN. Owens apologized for his conduct yesterday, but Reid noted that he had not ruled out a......