BOB GROTZ

Jul 12, 2024 | delcotimes.com | BOB GROTZ

The day after the Phillies became the first MLB team to reach 60 victories, they cruised to a 5-1 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers and a sweep of a three-game series between the top two teams in the National League. That put the Phils on a ridiculous pace to win a franchise-record 106 games. It also made knuckleheads of critics who accused them of feasting on weak opposition to win almost 66 percent of their games.

Jul 12, 2024 | trentonian.com | BOB GROTZ

Every night the Phillies seem to clear another hurdle. After checking in as the first MLB team to reach 60 victories on Wednesday, they won again Thursday, defeating the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-1 to sweep the three-game series. The Phillies are on pace to win a franchise-record 106 games. The Dodgers are no pushovers, although they are hurting without injured superstar Mookie Betts. They are the second-best team in baseball, and that means everything with the All-Star approaching.

Jul 9, 2024 | delcotimes.com | BOB GROTZ

CAMDEN, N.J. — The new day in Sixers basketball Tuesday looked a lot like the old days. A lot of energy, a ton of confidence and lofty expectations. There was the always quotable Kelly Oubre Jr. ripping the elitists hyping the Big 3 of Joel Embiid, Tyrese Maxey and Paul George. To Oubre, the Sixers are anything but a three-man team. “They have big names, they’re all All-Stars and things like that,” the newly re-signed Oubre said. “But I think we’ve got like a Big 12, a Big 15.

Jul 8, 2024 | delcotimes.com | BOB GROTZ

Guard Kelly Oubre spent only one year with the Sixers, yet he’s the only holdover of three elder statesman to be introduced in the first wave of veteran acquisitions Tuesday at the 76ers Training Complex in Camden. Center Andre Drummond also will step up to the podium and he’s in his second tour with the Sixers having played 49 games for them before being shipped to Brooklyn two years ago with Seth Curry and Ben Simmons and an exchange of first-round draft picks for James Harden.

Jul 7, 2024 | delcotimes.com | BOB GROTZ

From the day Xavier Lozowicki was born, there were huge expectations. He laughs about it each time he explains his nickname. “My aunt told everybody that with the initials XL, he better be a big boy,” Lozowicki recalled. “It stuck with me. And I love it.”The 6-foot-5, 300-pound lineman is just beginning to learn what big really means. The kid who grew up playing CYO football in Ridley and spent three years at Cardinal O’Hara is competing for a starting job with Power 5 football school Cincinnati.