Philadelphia’s war on delivery robots has officially escalated from dirty looks and occasional kicks to an actual arrest.

A Center City woman was charged with disorderly conduct allegedly after repeatedly blocking an Uber delivery robot near Reading Terminal Market and refusing police orders to move, reports 6abc.

Her reasoning? The robots are taking jobs from human delivery workers and somebody has to stop them.

Apparently, she’s been doing this for a while. During an earlier encounter, a witness asked whether a robot had hit her. Her response? “No, I have to stop this. They’re taking over the world.”

Only in Philadelphia could a tiny robot trying to deliver somebody’s lunch become the center of a labor protest and involve the police. The woman says she has no plans to stop. But, first she’ll have to answer to the charges.

The Eagles have lost three straight games. The Flyers’ winless streak is now nine, their worst start in franchise history. And somehow, both teams seem to be running out of ways to embarrass us.

Sunday was particularly painful. The Eagles flew all the way to London just to botch the final minute against Jacksonville, including a play in which rookie Makai Lemon ran toward the sideline when staying inbounds was what the team needed.

Meanwhile, we’re already at the point in the Flyers’ season where players are reassuring everyone that they love their coach. Wonderful. Everybody likes everybody. Can somebody win a game?

Nick Sirianni and Rick Tocchet are both known as players’ coaches, and there’s something to be said for building a locker room where everyone gets along. But at some point, the good vibes have to translate into something resembling competent sports.

We’re not suggesting anybody start throwing chairs. But maybe a little less reassurance and a little more accountability wouldn’t hurt.

Most universities would be thrilled to have a famous actor, billionaire, or professional athlete among their alumni. Villanova has the pope.

And apparently, he’s pretty good about keeping in touch.

Villanova’s president, the Rev. Peter Donohue, has exchanged about 25 emails with Pope Leo XIV since his election. Imagine casually emailing the leader of the Catholic Church to ask whether he’d like to come to your college reunion. (He declined, by the way.)

The pope has also met with students, helped promote university programs, and even served a cappuccino to a Villanova professor’s wife. Her husband asked for tea, prompting perhaps the most reasonable response ever: If the pope offers you coffee, you drink the damn coffee.

Now thousands of Villanova fans are headed to Rome for basketball games against Notre Dame, though a possible papal audience remains uncertain.

And with this week’s news that Pope Leo has been diagnosed with cancer, the excitement understandably comes with concern. His surgery was successful, and the Vatican says his recovery is progressing well.

Here’s hoping Villanova’s most famous alum is back on his feet soon.

A DoorDash order for a small wonton soup at Chinatown’s Sang Kee Peking Duck House came in under the name “LeBron J.,” and naturally, Philadelphia wants to believe it was the Sixers’ newest superstar.

But we have some questions.

A small soup? For a 6-foot-9 NBA player? LeBron James has spent more than two decades maintaining one of the most impressive physiques in professional sports, and we’re supposed to believe he’s calling it dinner with a pint of wonton soup?

To be fair, the order included so many extra wontons and shrimp dumplings that Sang Kee had to put everything in a bigger container.

Still, no roast duck? No fried rice? Live a little, King. LeBron hasn’t confirmed the order, and given that he’s been commuting from New York by helicopter, there’s a decent chance some other LeBron J. is enjoying his unexpected fame.

But if it really was him, somebody get that man a full meal. We’ve got a basketball season to get through.

Don Mattingly is officially sticking around. The Phillies removed his interim tag and gave him a two-year contract, which is fair enough considering he went 79-55 after taking over for Rob Thomson.

But forgive us if we’re not throwing a parade down Broad Street.

We’ve seen this movie before. The Phillies have a talented, expensive roster, a manager who seems perfectly capable of doing his job, and an October exit that leaves everyone wondering what went wrong.

Mattingly isn’t the problem; he’s probably not the solution, either.

Alex Cora reportedly turned down the job twice, and maybe he saw what the rest of us are starting to realize: You can change who’s filling out the lineup card, but eventually you have to change the lineup.

The Phillies have already tried replacing the manager. They’ve spent hundreds of millions of dollars. And somehow, October keeps ending earlier.

Mattingly deserves a chance to lead this team for a full season. But the bigger question is what kind of team he’ll actually be managing.

Because if the Phillies’ big offseason change is removing the word “interim,” we’re going to have a problem.

Philadelphia was named the worst big city in America for drivers, finishing dead last out of 100 cities in a new WalletHub ranking.

Anyone who’s ever driven down Washington Avenue, navigated the Schuylkill Expressway, or tried to find parking in South Philly is probably wondering how this was even a competition.

Driving here requires a specific set of skills. You have to dodge potholes big enough to swallow a tire, anticipate when the car in front of you will suddenly double-park with its hazards on, and accept that a 15-minute trip can somehow take 45 minutes at 2 p.m. on a Tuesday.

Then there’s the Schuylkill, where rush hour apparently starts at sunrise and ends sometime after dinner.

Pour one out for the Phillies daycare. The mural of Alec Bohm, Brandon Marsh, and Bryson Stott at Garage in Fishtown has been painted over.

And it’s a little sad. Those three were such a fun part of this Phillies era, and with Bohm potentially on his way out, it feels like we’re watching the band break up.

But also, thank God.

That mural went up before the 2024 postseason, and the Phillies haven’t won a single playoff series since. At some point, walking past three giant smiling faces of guys who keep breaking our hearts every October starts to feel personal.

A Phillies fan account says LeBron James is taking over the wall. Nothing says Philadelphia sports fandom quite like painting over the last group of guys who disappointed us to make room for the next guy we’re putting all our hopes into.

Welcome to Philly, LeBron. Please don’t make us paint over you, too.