Marcus Hayes is a sports columnist for the Inquirer. Hired more than 20 years ago as a features writer, he has since covered the Eagles, Phillies, and Sixers beats as well as Big Five basketball, college football, golf, and the Olympics.
Sunday’s smorgasbord of was the sort of odd and unimaginable contest, the type of undefinable scenario, that Lyon loved best and wrote best and made sense of better than anyone else.
Jackson had missed 6 weeks with an abdominal tear but he wanted to play. His bosses, their season in jeopardy, let him. He lasted four snaps — likely his last of the season.
