Inqlings: Bonaduce: A head for the game

Danny Bonaduce

, pro soccer player?

"No, but I'm better than I was," says the WYSP morning man, who is training for a tryout in about two weeks with the Philadelphia Union, the Major League Soccer team.

In Bonaduce's last athletic pursuit, earlier this year, he went three rounds in a boxing ring with Jose Canseco.

Bonaduce was inspired to go out after hitting it off with Union president Tom Veit. "I never played organized sports," Bonaduce told him. "Remember, when I was a kid, I was working for a living." (Bonaduce wanted to introduce his daughter, Countess Isabella Michaela Bonaduce, to the sport, but quickly gave up, he said. He drafted his then-next-door neighbor, Vivian Campbell, the Irish-born Def Leppard guitarist and a crackerjack footballer.)

The Union's John Hackworth has been working with Bonaduce. The WYSP Web site (www.wysp.com/union) now has it on video.

"I'm a 50-year-old chain-smoker," Bonaduce said. "All of them end with me hacking up black stuff."

Except for one clip - not yet posted - in which Bonaduce plays goalie. "I took a ball so hard to the face that everybody stopped what they were doing. All I saw was this big white flash."

The free holiday show on the video wall in the Comcast Center lobby will have an eye-popping aspect this year. Comcast has re-created the 18-minute video in 3-D, and ordered 100,000 pairs of special glasses for the public, according to spokesman

John Demming

. Comcast head

Brian Roberts

will sneak-preview it at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday. It'll run on the hour from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thanksgiving Day to New Year's Day; there's no showing at 5 p.m. weekdays.

The Keystone State Boychoir will perform Nov. 30 at the 50th-anniversary celebration of the signing of the Antarctic Treaty in Washington. The boys will do one better: Next month, while touring Chile, they will take a day trip to King George Island, Antarctica, to sing for scientists. That would be the seventh continent the choir has visited.

Scott Slobotkin

, who owns David Jay Jewelers at Route 611 and Street Road in Warrington, has sourced 100 sterling silver and diamond rings. On Black Friday, when his store opens at 10 a.m., he plans to give them away, ideally to people who can't afford to buy something special for someone this holiday season

Free H1N1 shots? The Welcare Center, a new concierge medicine practice at 1108 N. Bethlehem Pike in Spring House (www.welcarecenter.com), has 250 vaccines to give out at 8 a.m. Tuesday.

Phillies pitcher

Ryan Madson

is talking up Gerhard's Appliances & Home Theater in an endorsement deal secured by

Craig Kaplan

of All Star Promotion. Madson, who is working on TV/radio spots, is just back from teammate

Shane Victorino

's wedding in Hawaii. Madson and wife

Sarah

combined the trip with a seventh-anniversary celebration. The reception included what Madson called a "full-on luau."

Friday was the last day after four years at NBC10 for sportscaster

Jade McCarthy

, who is bound for an anchor/host job at New England Sports Network. McCarthy, 29, a native New Englander, recently married

Gordon Stead

from Abington. It's not clear how NBC10 will fill her job, aside from having

Vai Sikahema

and

John Clark

pull more shifts.

As for NBC10 alums: Lori Delgado, who quit her anchor job last year, is a New York-based travel blogger at jetsetsmartblog.com, where she recounted recent trips to Puerto Rico and Iceland.

Chef

Jose Garces

, who will learn his fate tonight on the series

The Next Iron Chef

(9, Food Network), helped judge the Philadelphia Development Partnership's annual Taste of Success gala Friday night at PNC Bank, 1600 Market St. The theme was "Mexican and Tapas." Garces,

Zana Billue

of Zana Cakes, and

Keith Lucas

of MANNA judged the work of young entrepreneurs who have started their restaurant and catering businesses with loans from PDP.

Restaurateur Stephen Starr retains not one but two outside companies to anonymously inspect his restaurants - and each company keeps tabs on the other, as Starr tells interviewer Larry Kane on tonight's Voice of Reason (9:30, Comcast Network). Kane grilled Starr, Audrey Taichman (who owns Audrey Claire and Twenty Manning), and me on the state of the restaurant industry.

People will pay for luxuries. On Monday, Mikuni Wild Harvest, a gourmet grocer in New York, got a shipment of prized white Alba truffles from Italy. Among the batch was a 1.1-pound monster that, according to Mikuni, was the largest specimen to land in the States this year. Mikuni videotaped it, posted it on YouTube, and e-mailed details to its high-end customers. After a brisk auction, Starr's Barclay Prime steak house on Rittenhouse Square outbid Daniel, a high-end eatery in Manhattan. The $4,100 fungus arrived in Philly on Tuesday, and chef Jim LoCascio has many truffle dinners ahead of him, as just a few crumbs go a long way. Starr has dug deep before. In 2001, while planning his Japanese eatery Morimoto, he bought a $10,000 freezer that can chill to 112 degrees below zero, and he put down $14,000 for a 300-pound bluefin. Chef Masaharu Morimoto cut it into Morimoto's first batch of sushi and sashimi.

Johanna Sigmund

of North Philly didn't earn a spot in the 2001 New York City Marathon and planned to run in the Philadelphia Marathon instead that November. But Sigmund, who worked in the World Trade Center, was killed in the 9/11 attacks at age 25. Family members ran that Philly Marathon, but since no one was in shape, they ran two-mile legs as a relay. At today's Philly Marathon, her brother,

John

, will run the full course. He and nearly 20 others are running in Philly and New York to raise money for a family-supported scholarship in her name at their parish in North Philly, St. Malachy. Details:

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