Bob Vetrone Jr.

Philly Sports/Big 5 - Kansas City Chiefs - E Street Band - Former @PhillyDailyNews scoreboard editor

[BRUCE LEFKOWITZ @bruce_lefkowitz]

@Aaron_Bracy Bring it all back to Palestra .Provide transportation. Give kids pizza and premiums , teach about banners and streamers, Re engage HS and CYO team trips . Make it an event .its a marketing issue. Spend a few $. It’s doable. You ll draw more than Nova v Coppin State

[Paul Domowitch @pdomo]

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[Bob Vetrone Jr. @BoopStats]

@BFQuinn Nicely done . . .

Especially liked how you painted the picture for non-area readers . . .

To me, the Big 5 has simply been another entity to root for. Like the Phillies or the Union . . .

Drexel can move to Wilmington and Villanova to MSG, and I will still root for them.

[Mark Elling @markelling_]

Carrie Fisher was paid $850 a week to play Princess Leia.

George Lucas owned her face.

She was 19. She signed the contract, and with it the rights to her likeness.

Then came the dolls. The action figures. The shampoo bottles. The Pez dispensers. Star Wars merchandise went on to make billions, and none of it was hers.

Lucas later gave her a quarter of a percent of his own profits. By 1980, it was worth about $320,000.

Alec Guinness got 2.25% of the profits on the same film.

28 years later, at Lucas’s lifetime achievement tribute, she stood at the podium and settled the score in front of all of Hollywood.

She put it on the record:

“You have owned my likeness all these years, so that every time I look in the mirror, I have to send you a check for a couple of bucks.”

The room laughed. Lucas laughed.

The case for Lucas: he took the risk, Fox laughed at him, and nobody knew it would be Star Wars.

The case for Fisher: she was the face on the box, and the box made billions.

Here’s the lesson: if you don’t own your name, someone else will sell it.

In the video, she roasts him for four minutes. Watch her, then decide.

Was she joking, or finally saying it out loud?

[Bob Vetrone Jr. @BoopStats]

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[Bob Vetrone Jr. @BoopStats]

@JPatrickGriffin Fair enough . . .

[Bob Vetrone Jr. @BoopStats]

Since the BIG 5 has popped up in the news, we thought we would take the opportunity to remind people that we have scores of 2,963 official men's college basketball games played at the PALESTRA at https://t.co/LNeXAK9gwT

(We believe that is a complete list . . . )

[Bob Vetrone Jr. @BoopStats]

Since the BIG 5 has popped up in the news, we thought we would take the opportunity to remind people that we have scores of 2,963 official men's college basketball games played at the PALESTRA at https://t.co/LNeXAK9gwT

(We believe that is a complete list . . . )

[Bob Vetrone Jr. @BoopStats]

@NegativePhilly @NBCSPhilly “Byrd” . . .

[Bob Vetrone Jr. @BoopStats]

@ChrisFried78 No idea . . .

[Bob Vetrone Jr. @BoopStats]

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[Bob Vetrone Jr. @BoopStats]

@KevinNegandhi Yeah . . . It was the game within the game . . .

[Jeff Kerr @JeffKerrPHL]

I don’t understand Kevin Willard.

[Bob Vetrone Jr. @BoopStats]

@DanaONeilWriter Just got a call from 1988 me who wanted to know how the heck they took 37 YEARS to break up . . .

[Bob Vetrone Jr. @BoopStats]

The Sixers are 2-0 . . .

The combined 2025-26 regular season and postseason records of the two teams they have beaten:

129-72 (.642)

[Bob Vetrone Jr. @BoopStats]

Second Half Scoring
Thru Two Games:

121 Sixers
79 Opponents

[Paul Domowitch @pdomo]

Excited to announce that I’m partnering with @ChickiesnPetes on a couple of pre-holiday book-signing events for “Just Give Me A Chance To Fail.” One will be at their Marlton location on 11-16 with guest Mike Quick. The other will be in Malvern on 12-14 with Dick Vermeil.

[Bob Vetrone Jr. @BoopStats]

@Jeff_Neiburg If I had told you in 1988 that Villanova would STILL be a part of the Big Five for 37 more years, you would’ve thought me crazy . . . Tip of the hat to the many administrators through the years that have kept — and will keep — this thing alive in one form or another . . .

[Jeff Neiburg @Jeff_Neiburg]

The current format of Big 5 men's basketball will end after this year, and the immediate future has the 5 non-Villanova schools playing round-robin without the Wildcats.

Villanova didn't want to keep this format, and another could not be agreed on.

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