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Mike Gibson
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Two-time Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association winner of Keystone Award for Best Sports Story, former sportswriter at Doylestown Intelligencer and Philadelphia Inquirer, current Editor and Publisher, templefootballforever.com
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December 7, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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Temple wins if it pulls out all of the stops
The phrase “pulling out all of the stops” means to use all available resources to achieve a desired outcome. At least that’s what both the Merriam-Webster and Oxford English dicti…
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November 21, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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The biggest Temple-Tulane game in 91 years
Most of the time when Temple plays Tulane the Owls are either very good or Tulane is very bad. Or, as we’ve seen over the last couple of years, Temple being bad and Tulane being good. The twa…
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November 18, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Time to throw caution (and footballs) to the wind
Over the next bye week, the Temple coaches are going to have to decide how to best get one or two wins in their final two shots. A defense that allowed only 14 points against Army should be competi…
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November 10, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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Gone: Hard to believe, Harry (Donahue)
One day, two sucker punches to the solar plexus. Two giants in Philadelphia radio, one giant of Temple sports radio.
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October 30, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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Navy vs Temple Football Highlights | Oct. 11, 2025
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October 12, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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K.C. Keeler is the last hope for Philly Sports
On probably one of the worst nights in Philadelphia sports history, we are on the eve of … maybe … one of the best ones in Temple football history. The Phillies lost on a monumental bra…
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October 10, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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Huge Temple crowd expected Saturday
By now, everyone should know that artificial intelligence is pretty much ahead of the crowd. In Temple’s case, literally.
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September 12, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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The last time Oklahoma football came to Philadelphia to play Temple.
September 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Temple home opener: Gameday is fun again
Not very many new Temple head football coaches have accomplished what K.C. Keeler has in his 261 days on the job. He’s made gamedays at Lincoln Financial Field fun again.
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September 5, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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5 Takeaways From the Temple Game
Controversial take here but I’ve thought about it long and hard since the end of Temple’s 42-10 win at Mass on Saturday. Put Evan Simon in bubble wrap for one game only and sit him agai…
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September 1, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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Temple football: Finally, Game Week
Since Wayne Hardin transitioned the Temple football Owls from what was then called the college division (roughly FCS) to the university division (FBS), football here could be broken into five catag…
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August 25, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Is Temple “Doomed” to Repeat History?
Underestimating Temple football coach K.C. Keeler is done at your own peril. At least that’s the lesson of history and we all know what Winston Churchill said about those who don’t lear…
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August 18, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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August 15, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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New digs: Temple should start planning now
For anyone who was around when Jeffrey Lurie tried to stiff Temple out of playing at Lincoln Financial Field way back when it opened in 2003, his latest plans should be viewed as a Five Alarm Fire.
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August 8, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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An ECU fan and a WVU fan walked into a bar …
An ECU fan and a WVU fan walked into a bar and …. …. decided that Temple is going to be better than the prognosticators predicted this season.
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August 4, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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Keeler and Berndt: TU football’s Lincoln and Kennedy
Very few things cause a human brain to short-circuit but the comparisons between Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy after the latter was tragically assassinated boggled any student of history.
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August 1, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/1992/11/19/s...
SPORTS PEOPLE: COLLEGE FOOTBALL; Berndt Is Dismissed by Temple (Published 1992)
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July 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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July 27, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Biggest takeaway from Media Day: Depth Chart
A couple of things were pretty apparent from the last two hours of the first day of American Conference Media Day. One, summer is coming to a way-too-fast end. (But we sort of knew that with the sh…
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July 25, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Biggest takeaway from Media Day: Depth Chart
A couple of things were pretty apparent from the last two hours of the first day of American Conference Media Day. One, summer is coming to a way-too-fast end. (But we sort of knew that with the sh…
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July 25, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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This week: The AAC Discovers Keeler’s Plan
Plenty of “money quotes” in the above short six-minute interview where the AAC sent a media person into the Temple film room to interview K.C. Keeler. To me, the big takeaway was that K…
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July 21, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Keeler: An A in Marketing 101
Until somebody proves otherwise, I’m going to give new Temple head football coach K.C. Keeler his first grade in a known Temple University course. Marketing 101, which used to exist in the Te…
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July 18, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Temple bucking a national trend in enrollment
Temple University and Iowa Wesleyan University couldn’t have been more different universities. Both were founded two centuries ago. That’s where the similarities ended because the Owls …
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July 14, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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What is the last name of Jackie on tonight's Celebrity Jeopardy?
July 12, 2025 at 12:52 AM