As a health reporter for many years, I had no reason to doubt that yoga “worked.” Ah, but was it exercise? After kicking butt with weights and strenuous Gold’s-Gym-type-sweaty-guy workouts, I thought the contortion and flexing was quaint but fell a bit s

Former 76ers general manager Pat Williams was talking over the phone the other day about the challenges of marketing a pro basketball team in Philadelphia, and talking as if it was the most pressing matter in his life. It is his way. He is always fully e

PHILADELPHIA -- Pat Croce, who built a network of 40 physical therapy and rehabilitation centers across the U.S. before pursuing other passions, has returned to the field to establish Medkita, a physical therapy consulting company created to help PT prac

ST. AUGUSTINE — The 17th century chest attributed to Captain William Kidd has had a nomadic and storied history, almost as itinerant as its legendary former pirate owner. Now, it finds its way from the UK to a new home at the St. Augustine Pirate & Trea

There has been a Super Bowl champion, a World Series-winning manager, Olympic medalists and Pat Croce, whose feel-great spirit was contagious. There have been high school coaches, college coaches and Vince Papale, who once walked onto the Eagles on his w

THERE WAS no sign of a moose or a dog or even a 7-foot constitutionalist. The Sixers Dance Team, which didn't retire to Western Pennsylvania with Hip Hop, had the game off. They shot some T-shirts into the crowd, but they've done that since Pat Croce sta