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Knife fight inside park Five people were injured in a knife fight at 1:30 a.m. in Penn Treaty Park yesterday. A man, 23, and a woman, 19, were each stabbed four times and are in critical condition. A 15-yearold boy, a 21-year-old man and an 18-yearold man also suffered stab wounds, but are stable.

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Shipyard secures deal for two tankers RIKARD LARMA/METRO

Months after fears arose briefly for Aker Shipyard’s future amid need for a state bailout, Aker yesterday signed a letter of intent with SeaRiver Maritime, an Exxon Mobil-owned company, for construction of two crude oil tankers.

The deal is reportedly

worth hundreds of millions of dollars and more than 1,000 local jobs.

“These new vessels will provide jobs for American shipyard workers and help support energy needs along the U.S. West Coast for decades,” SeaRiver President Will Jenkins said in a

statement.

These tankers will be used to carry oil from Alaska to the West Coast and are outfitted with energy efficient systems and produce lower air emissions that required by law. Construction begins next year.

The 820-foot vessels,

each with a capacity of 730,000 barrels, will be delivered in 2014. They will replace two existing double-hull tankers. The new vessels will be used to carry Alaskan crude from Prince William Sound, Alaska, to West Coast destinations. YOTAM DROR

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No longer secret, Devil’s Pool shut Swimming hole in northwest Philadelphia’s Wissahickon Valley Park got too popular Police began enforcing rule against going in water RIKARD LARMA/METRO

For years, police officers and park rangers turned a blind eye to almost everyone who made their way through the woods for a dip into Wissahickon Valley Park’s little secret, Devil’s Pool.

But too much hot weather and too much press, most notably a fourcolumn photograph across the top of The New York Times last Wednesday, attracted too much attention to the watering hole off Wissahickon Creek this weekend. Large crowds forced city police to finally end swimming in the pool.

“We’re there policing to make sure people are not swimming.

Everyone wants to dive into it like it’s Myrtle Beach,” said a 14th District officer. “This is not Atlantic City where you’re supposed to be diving and so forth. It’s not that type of party.”

Nowhere in the city’s Fairmount Park system is swimming actually allowed, according to Friends of the Wissahickon Executive Director Maura McCarthy.

“With all that press, then 100 degree temperatures, the officers felt they had no choice about enforcing the hard-nosed rules,” McCarthy said of complete closure of Devil’s Pool.

She recommended against swimming in the creek whether police enforce the park’s policy or

Cool off.

Heat wave death toll reaches 7 PHILADELPHIA. Eleven

heat-related deaths have been confirmed this summer, including seven in the most recent heat wave, a city Health spokesman said.

The newest seven were a combination of heart failure and heat exposure, he said. The victims ranged in age from 50 to 84. METRO

Several bathers swam and dove off the rocky terrain into nearby Wissahickon Creek yesterday, which is also off-limits to swimming under city regulations.

not because this time of year, the creek water at Devil’s Pool is typically 90 percent recycled human wastewater.

“The stream is a lot healthier than 10 years ago, but still has a lot of challenges,” McCarthy said. “I wouldn’t want my dog swimming in there.”

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Volunteers wanted Friends of the Wissahickon park advocacy leaders routinely hold volunteer cleanups in the park that spans neighborhoods like Roxborough and Chestnut Hill, McCarthy said.

Her group also subsi-

dized police coverage of the park for the last five years. This weekend, the police department went beyond its traditional coverage of the Devil’s Pool and surrounding park area.

For more information about volunteering in the park, go to www.fow.org/get.php.

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Woman dies in suspicious blaze EAST MOUNT AIRY. A woman in her early- to mid-30s died in a suspicious fire yesterday morning, and police are investigating whether her death was a murder, according to fire and police officials.

The victim died inside a house on East Cliveden Street, police said. METRO/YD

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Followers, yes, but real friends?

Crash. Car vs. fast food

Philly-based app developer tests how well you know Twitter followers Game is online social barometer Having a large number of Twitter followers may be a self-esteem booster, but it is definitely a disadvantage in a new iPhone app created by local developer Mike Zornek of software company Clickable Bliss.

TwizShow, available for 99 cents at the iTunes app store, quizzes you about your followers with ’80sgame-show-style animation, asking multiplechoice questions such as whose avatar is being displayed and who authored a particular tweet.

“I know a lot of users who play the game and they only follow 20, 30 or 40 people and you can tell

What’s that name?

because their scores are really high and they know their networks well,” said Zornek. “People with the lowest scores have the most followers and don’t

know them. If you play the game like two or three times, you’ll definitely have a sense of how well you know your followers.”

But does this mean intensive Tweeters are more isolated from friends in their nonvirtual social lives?

“No, they’re definitely more social in real life,” said social media expert Sonny Ahuja. “I have seen that from my own networking events: People who are more socially friendly are usually the most active on Twitter.”

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Seven people were injured, including two seriously, when an elderly man drove a Mercury Grand Marquis through the front of a Burger King near Eighth and Market streets yesterday.

No drive-thru at this Burger King Witnesses said a driver accelerated before ramming through the brick facade of a Burger King at about 3 p.m. yesterday in Center City. “I heard the car engine accelerate and at the same time I saw the vehicle coming,” said Timothy Humphrey, a musician from Detroit, who had just left the restaurant. METRO/SDL

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Forensic experts take stand PERUGIA, ITALY. Indepen-

dent forensic experts took the stand yesterday to attack key pieces of evidence used to convict U.S. student Amanda Knox of the murder of her British roommate in Perugia in 2007.

The two courtappointed experts told an appeal hearing that the knife thought to have been used to kill 21-year-old Meredith Kercher carried no trace of blood but may have been contaminated with other DNA traces. REUTERS

Vatican recalls envoy VATICAN CITY. The Vati-

can has recalled its ambassador in Ireland following severe criticism by the Irish parliament of the church’s role in covering up child sex abuse, a spokesman said yesterday.

The move follows last week’s unprecedented rebuke of the Holy See by the Irish parliament in the wake of a report that accused church authorities of covering up the sexual abuse of children by priests as recently as 2009. REUTERS

Bear attacks seven teens ANCHORAGE, ALASKA. A

grizzly bear has attacked seven teenagers in Alaska, injuring four of them, Alaska State Troopers said yesterday.

The hiking teens were trying to cross a river when the grizzly attacked Saturday night, the troopers said. REUTERS

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100,000 gather to remember victims Attacker claims help, but officials skeptical Rally likely country’s largest since World War II At least 100,000 people rallied in Oslo and tens of thousands more marched in cities across Norway yesterday in a nationwide expression of grief and unity over the massacre of 76 people by Anders Behring Breivik.

Breivik told a judge in a closed hearing yesterday his bombing and shooting rampage aimed to save Europe from a Muslim takeover, and said that “two more cells” existed in his group.

Police said they could not rule out the possibility that others were involved in Friday’s attacks and they revised down the death toll to 76 from 93: eight dead in a bomb blast in Oslo and 68 at a Labour Party youth camp on Utoeya island.

Stoltenberg addressed the evening crowd, many of them holding up red and white roses for remembrance, his voice trembling with emotion: “By taking part you are saying a resounding ‘yes’ to democra-

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Norwegian police revised down the death toll from Friday’s bomb and shooting attack to 76 people from a previous estimate of 93, citing difficulties in gathering information at Utoeya island, where the shooting spree occurred.

“Evil can kill a person but never conquer a people.”

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cy.” He called the Rose March a “march for democracy, a march for tolerance, a march for unity.”

“Evil can kill a person but never conquer a people.”

In a country of 4.8 million, where a single murder makes front-page news, the solidarity rally was probably the biggest since World War II. REUTERS

More updates A Norwegian court yesterday decided to detain selfconfessed gunman Anders Behring Breivik for eight weeks during a police investigation of the attacks.

The court agreed to keep

Doubt cast on gunman’s claim of accomplices

Breivik

Thousands held red and white flowers at the vigil in remembrance of the 76 victims.

Breivik in solitary confinement with a ban on letters, access to media and visitors. He would be held in the strictest isolation for at least four weeks.

Norwegian police said Breivik had said during interrogation that he was

prepared to spend the rest of his life in prison.

Discovery Channel has commissioned a one-hour documentary about Friday’s tragedy in Norway that will air in select international markets in August, the network announced yesterday.

Rival debt plans pushed as time flies by Top U.S. lawmakers rolled out dueling debt plans yesterday that offered little prospect for compromise, increasing the threat of a ratings downgrade and national default, as President

Barack Obama prepared to address Americans on the impasse.

Little more than a week before the Aug. 2 deadline to raise the $14.3 trillion U.S. debt ceiling, Republi-

can and Democratic leaders traded blame in an acrimonious standoff as they pursued separate budget proposals, with no clear path to bring them together.

The stalemate rattled in-

vestors worldwide, sending stocks and the dollar down and pushing gold to a record high, but falling far short of the panicky sell-off that some politicians had feared. REUTERS

Norwegian police think gunman Anders Behring Breivik is probably a lone wolf, a view also held by some researchers who cast doubt on his claim that he was working with two other cells.

Breivik, who admitted to carrying out a bomb attack and shooting spree last Friday that killed 76 people, told a court yesterday that two cells of collaborators were in his “Knights Templar” group that aimed to “save” Europe from Muslims.

Earlier, Breivik maintained he acted alone.

Police attorney Christian Hatlo told reporters yesterday that he “cannot completely, and I stress completely, rule out that others were involved in what happened.” REUTERS

Judge Kim Heger said Breivik had accused the ruling Labour Party of betraying Norway with “mass imports of Muslims.” He said his attacks were aimed at deterring future recruitment to the party.

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No word yet on Winehouse death

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NEW YORK. Just a few hours after Winehouse was found dead on Saturday, scammers launched a campaign to capitalize

opened and adjourned.

The “Back to Black” singer, who has fought drug and alcohol addictions, was found dead at her north London home Saturday afternoon.

As sales of Winehouse’s music soared and speculation swirled about the release of a possible posthuon her death.

Several links to videos popped up on Facebook over the weekend purportedly showing Winehouse in the moments before her death, but when users clicked the link, they

mous album, her father Mitch visited a growing shrine outside the house.

Surrounded by television crews, well-wishers, and a swarm of teddy bears, flowers and the occasional bottle of booze, he read the dozens of condolence messages left for Amy. REUTERS were directed to fill out an online survey. At the same time, the link led to a pop-up message that duped users into sharing the link to the faux video with their contacts on the social networking site. MAINSTREET.COM

‘Dog’ boned DENVER. Celebrity bounty hunter Duane “Dog” Chapman received a scathing public rebuke from a western Colorado sheriff, who accused the flamboyant reality TV star of reckless showmanship in bringing his latest bail-jumper to justice.

Mesa County Sheriff Stan Hilkey said Chapman engaged in “profit-driven peacockery” and disregarded public safety when he delivered the injured 29year-old fugitive to the county jail last week while TV cameras rolled.

“While Dog stayed outside, shirtless and sweaty, prancing back and forth waving his golden locks for the camera, his team brought this freshly peppersprayed fellow into the enclosed space of the Sheriff’s Office lobby with other citizens present,” Hilkey wrote in a blog posting. REUTERS

Cause of death for drug addicted singer still not clear Parents visit memorial site Malicious link on Web A post-mortem examination on singer Amy Winehouse failed to determine how she died and more toxicology tests are being carried out, with the results expected in two to four weeks, police said yesterday.

The autopsy was carried out after an inquest into the 27-year-old’s death

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Janis and Mitch Winehouse mourn their daughter’s death as they look at flowers, pictures and messages left in tribute in north London.

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Checking in with some of Hollywood’s biggest names to see what they’ve been up to — in their own words, in 140 characters or less.

Today, Lady Gaga is suffering for her art, Bill Maher is putting things in perspective, Nina Dobrev is in fact bragging and Conan O’Brien is over-thinking Harry Potter. @ladygaga You know you’re dedicated to hooker-pop when your bruises and cuts are shaped like fishnets. @billmaher Hey rest of the United States, gay marriage is like color tv - eventually everybody was gonna get it @ninadobrev I’m not gonna brag but... I may or may not have met Steven Spielberg tonight.

Just sayin’ @ConanOBrien If Voldemort is such a powerful wizard, why can’t he conjure up a new nose?

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‘Glee’ stars to become townies?

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Bravo, guys!

No boundaries for this vampire couple “True Blood” star Anna Paquin admits being married to co-star Stephen Moyer makes filming intimate scenes easier.

“Maybe it should be weird, simulating sex with your husband in front of people? But it’s really not,” Paquin tells V Magazine. “When it’s a love scene with someone you actually love, there’s

no feeling like, ‘Can I touch him here? Can I touch him there?’ You know what your boundaries are — or what they aren’t, I suppose.”

What’s most impressive is that Paquin, after all of those years of being together, is able to pretend like she still wants to rip his pants off instead of pretending to have a headache.

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hile “Glee” boss Ryan Murphy recently said stars Lea Michele, Cory Monteith and Emmy-nominee Chris Colfer would be leaving the show after next season, that may not actually be the case. “Here’s the exact thing: [The characters] are seniors, so they’re graduating,” executive producer Brad Falchuk told the the audience at the show’s Comic-Con panel, according to TV Line. “But because they’re graduating doesn’t mean they’re leaving the show. If you have Lea Michele under contract, you don’t say, ‘We’re gonna let you go.’”

Oh man — you know what happens if you don’t leave town after graduation: You become that townie burnout, a la Matthew McConaughey in “Dazed and Confused.” I can’t wait for the episode

So ... it might be time to stop believin’, kiddos.

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The jewels that keep on giving Prince William has gifted his new wife, Princess Catherine, with yet another

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prized item from his late mother Princess Diana’s jewelry collection: a pair of diamond and sapphire earrings, according to the Daily Mail. “Now that they’re married, William wanted her to have some of his mother’s favorite pieces,” a source says. Diana was in fact quite fond

Princess Kate has some new bling.

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Lohan: Can’t keep a good drunk down Lindsay Lohan seems to be

of the earrings and wore them often before her death in 1997.

slipping back into bad habits, if a night out in Hollywood is any indication.

The troubled starlet hit up

a friend’s birthday, showing up sober and only ordering juice from the waitstaff, but by the end of the night “she could barely stand,” an eyewitness tells Radar Online. The source says Lohan sneaked gulps of other people’s drinks while passing them on and taking shots of vodka on the sly. Lohan was later spotted holding onto curtains for support and screaming into her cell phone before she left the club around 2 a.m. “When she got to her Escalade, she just collapsed into it,” the source says. Lohan, who is still on probation, is legally allowed to drink.

where Rachel, desperate for her high-school days and wanting to impress the new members of New Directions, starts belting out show tunes while buying Mad Dog 20/20 for underage high school students.

Celebrating sans husband Divorce or no divorce, Jennifer Lopez was all smiles in Miami this weekend, celebrating her 42nd birthday with her mother, sister and a massive entourage, according to People magazine.

“Jennifer looked radiant in a purple and silver evening dress,” a source says. “And when they brought out her birthday cake after the meal, she began to sing. She was very happy. The whole group had a blast, staying for hours. They closed down the restaurant.”

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Dayman heads to Comic-Con, and Rihanna’s in town

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1: Well, this is one way to beat the heat: Rihanna stripped down for her show at the Wells Fargo Center on Saturday.

2: The “Always Sunny” crew stopped by Comic-Con on Sunday, and they didn’t forget to play dress-up.

3: Ozzy Osbourne brought a very cute guest to a benefit in Beverly Hills on Friday.

4: Taylor Swift looked like she fell out of a fairy tale Sunday night when her “Speak Now” tour came through Newark, N.J. 5: “Cowboys & Aliens” stars Harrison Ford, Daniel Craig and Olivia Wilde — who looks like this. Where will every guy you know go this weekend?

We’ll give you one guess.

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Getting your (moon) rocks off Best-selling author Ben Mezrich uncovers the story behind one of the most audacious heists in US history in his new book, ‘Sex on the Moon’

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Thad Roberts while at NASA.

oon rocks are otherworldly and illegal to own — and they’re also among the most valuable elements in the world. A single gram is worth around $5 million. Enter Thad Roberts, a 25-yearold NASA co-op who stole a safe of lunar samples and then, along with his girlfriend/accomplice, did just what the title of Ben Mezrich’s highly readable new book, “Sex on the Moon,” suggests. Mezrich, the best-selling author behind “Bringing Down the House,” and “The Accidental Billionaires” (from which the Oscar-winning “The Social Network” is adapted), uncovers just

How did you come about Thad’s story?

I’ve become the go-to guy for interesting stories. Mutual friends of Thad who were fans of mine contacted me. I never heard of the heist. So I hopped on a plane and flew to Utah to meet Thad right after he spent seven and a half years in jail. He was one of the nicest, most charismatic guys I’ve ever met.

It seems like you had a lot more to work with in this — FBI files, interviews with Thad, etc. — than your other non-fiction works.

how Roberts was both brilliant and stupid enough to mastermind one of most daring thefts in American history.

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[The material] was thousands of pages — from what he had in his pockets when they arrested him to the transcripts of when

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they took him down. In fact, the first thing Thad says when he sits down with an undercover FBI agent is: “If you’re wearing a wire, I’m screwed.” I mean, come on: That makes for a great book.

There are so many over-the-top elements to the story, but what was the one thing that surprised even you?

Even to this day, I don’t understand how Thad could be so brilliant in pulling it off but then he just tried to sell the moon rocks on the Internet. He just wasn’t a criminal. A criminal would know better.

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How Tatiana de Rosnay turned French history into ‘Sarah’s Key’ The author on adapting her novel for the big screen and keeping Harvey Weinstein happy

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uthor Tatiana de Rosnay’s best-seller “Sarah’s Key” uses an American journalist’s curiosity about her own apartment to shed light on a shameful moment in French history, the 1942 Vel’ d’Hiv roundup in Paris, during which French police voluntarily rounded up and arrested Jewish families.

With the novel having been turned into a film starring Kristen Scott Thomas, de Rosnay sat down with Metro to discuss what walls remember and writing in different languages.

This deals with a piece of

Q&A: Adapting How was the adaptation process?

Well it went really well.

[Screenwriter] Serge [Joncour] happens to be a very good friend of mine, so I felt immediately at ease and a sort of trustworthy atmosphere. And frankly, I wouldn’t have come all the way from Paris, France, on this exhausting movie tour to tell you that I didn’t like it.

Unless you really, really didn’t like it.

Yeah, I suppose, but I don’t think Harvey Weinstein would’ve liked that at all. It would’ve been a bit tricky.

history audiences might not be familiar with. How is it to educate people in a way?

For me it was not a “holocaust novel” — although it is called that, and this is called a “holocaust movie.”

When I wrote it, I absolutely did not have the intentional of making it into a lesson.

This was your first book in English?

Published, yes, but not really, in the sense that when I started to write books, I was 11 years old and that was in English, and everything I wrote between the ages of 11 and 25 are in English. I wrote about 15 books which are never to be published because

Kristen Scott Thomas in the movie adaptation of Tatiana de Rosnay’s novel “Sarah’s Key,” out now.

they’re very bad — this sort of science-fiction stuff, detective novels, love stories.

Is there any difference to the experiences of writing in English versus French?

I grew up learning both languages at the same time.

My father’s French and my mother’s English. I speak English to my son and

French to my daughter, for some strange reason. It’s actually very difficult for me to analyze why I write books in French or in English. All I know is that I wrote “Sarah’s Key” in English because I had to put myself into my English side to write about that event in French history.

Q&A: Curiosity The history of apartments, what lives have been lived there, seems such fertile ground for storytelling.

All my books have that, every single book that I’ve written. It’s one of my favorite obsessions, how walls remember. I’m sure some shrink would have some brilliant interpretation of why. I probably don’t want to find out why, because if I do I’ll probably tamper with all the internal mechanisms that make my imagination spring forward. My poor husband, whenever we’re looking for a house, he says things like, “How much is the rent?” And I’m like, “What happened here? Did somebody commit suicide here?” I can feel it. If I walk in somewhere where somewhere horrible has happened, I can feel it.

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For the best IVF success, don’t worry, be happy Enrolling in a stress-management class might help women undergoing in vitro fertilization get pregnant, according to a May study.

The finding is in line with other recent work suggesting that stress relief might up the success rate for women who have trouble conceiving.

“Women who are in infertility treatment do report huge amounts of stress,” Courtney Lynch, the head of reproductive epidemiology at Ohio State University, said in May. “One of the reasons IVF is not as effective as we’d like it to be is that some cou-

Less success for the obese Obese women undergoing IVF may be half as likely as their normal-weight counterparts to have a baby, a study at one medical center found.

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Celeb culture rots the brain I read the Metro almost every day on the way to work. Today, however, I felt compelled to tell you how monumentally disappointed I was to see Amy Winehouse gracing the cover. I flipped through several pages before finally finding any reference to the horrible tragedy that occurred in Norway. Are we so celebrity brain-dead that the death of one starlet dwarfs the terrorizing and killing of dozens of defenseless children at camp on an island?

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Frankly humorous how your letters page has all negative comments regarding “Republicans,” “Tea Party” and corporations. Why not simply declare that yours is a marxist or Democratic Party newspaper and be done with it? Frankly there is more than enough blame to go around for all sides in this economic mess! For far too long America has been living on credit and well beyond its means.

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FINAL PIECE NOT WORTH ASKING PRICE If a really stupid idea is repeated often enough, fans begin to accept it. Some even embrace it. And right now, the most idiotic whisper emanating from the Phillies’ front office is that Vance Worley might be traded.

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orley has been nothing short of spectacular in his first real test in the big leagues. He joined a short list of current and future Hall of Fame pitchers, who gave up one run or less in six consecutive starts. On a staff of aces, he has been the best starter for a full month.

Yet the clamor for a championship in 2011 is growing so loud that Worley could be packing his bags by Sunday’s trade deadline — possibly to Houston in a deal for Hunter Pence. At least that’s the latest story being suggested by the ever-growing army of “insiders” on the Internet, including top reporters like Buster Olney of ESPN and Todd Zolecki of MLB.com.

Well, here’s one vote for keeping Worley, not just in a deal for Pence, but in a deal for anyone. Teams wait years, sometimes decades, for a young pitcher to come along and dominate the way Worley has. Not so many years ago, Roy Halladay was Vance Worley. So were Cliff Lee and Cole Hamels.

Granted, J.A. Happ was performing similar mound miracles two years ago, and Kyle Kendrick before that. The failure rate on projecting the success of young pitchers is high, yes, but not as high as the regret rate when a good, young pitcher becomes great for another team. With an aging staff, the Phils can’t afford to sacrifice their future.

Worley doesn’t light up a radar gun with 95mile-an-hour heat or mystify with a stunning off-speed pitch. He dominates with something equally impressive: pure confidence. At 24, he doesn’t just occupy the mound, he commands it. While Kendrick gets twitchy with men on Quoted base, Worley sneers.

Worley has so captiThree nicknames for vated in his brief stay here that he already has a rookie has to three nicknames. First, be a record. it was “Frames” for his distinctive glasses. Then it was “El Vanimal” for his ferocious demeanor. And now, it’s my own admittedly lame “Sir Vancelot,” because of his warrior mentality. Three nicknames for a rookie has to be a record.

The real story of Vance Worley is a simple one. He is a young pitcher who has enjoyed stunning success on a staff of brilliant pitchers.

His potential far exceeds a fine young talent like Pence, or any other players on the market.

The Phillies need to add one final piece to their excellent team, a right-handed hitting outfielder to bat behind Ryan Howard. But no hitter is worth losing Vance Worley. No hitter is worth risking the bright future symbolized by the fearless kid with the crazy glasses.

– Angelo Cataldi is host of 610 WIP’s Morning Show, which airs weekdays 5:30 a.m. to 10 a.m.

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Big Red protects most, but not all When Kevin Kolb is traded to Arizona, Andy Reid will be losing his biggest and most clueless fan.

Even though the coach broke his promise to give Kolb back the starting job, no one loves Reid more.

Speaking to Howard Eskin on the Dan Patrick radio show last week, Kolb said: “Andy is such an unselfish guy, and he doesn’t have an ego. ... I have seen him take the bullet for so many players that the media has no idea about and the fans have no idea about.”

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lets for his players, but not all. After the playoff loss to Green Bay, the coach committed the most unconscionable act in the past decade. Reid

said, “We can count.

Those points would have helped,” after David Akers missed two field goals in a five-point loss. A few days earlier, Akers had learned his daughter had cancer.

Michael Vick threw a season-ending pick in the final moments of that game. The offensive line was manhandled for 60 minutes. The red-zone defense remained pitiful.

And Reid squandered timeouts and screwed up a challenge. But the only one getting a finger pointed at him was Akers.

To this day, Reid has provided nothing close to an explanation for that extraordinary lapse. In short, yes, Andy Reid has the back of most of his players. Unless he slides a knife in it the way he did with David Akers.

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Closing the door on future success? Is there any good reason why an unhittable Antonio Bastardo lost the closer’s job to Ryan Madson over the weekend? Bastardo’s awful performance Saturday in the eighth inning came courtesy of the lovable folk hero himself: his manager, Charlie Manuel.

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You must be joking, right?

Hey, I was willing to laugh at the notion of bringing NFL bad boy Albert Haynesworth to Philadelphia. I even cracked a smile that Plaxico Burress might go from prison to the Linc. But Brett Favre joining the Eagles as a backup QB? That’s a joke, right? Please tell me it’s a joke.

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Contract year blues.

In case you haven’t noticed, Jimmy Rollins continues not to hustle even during his current hot streak at the plate. He barely made it to first on a double error last week. If Rollins refuses to play the game the right way in this final year of his contract, what will he do next season?

Worley is reportedly being shopped this week.

Sorry NFL, not buying your act Before the NFL lockout, I was annoyed with the preening players and disgusted by the billionaire owners. Five months later, I feel betrayed and abused by both sides.

Remember, it all began when the owners pulled up in their chauffeur-driven limos at a meeting in March and cried poor.

Decked out in beautifullytailored suits, they claimed they couldn’t make ends meet in the current system. Then they refused to back their claims by actually showing their books.

The players were at least more sympathetic, with the physical dangers

they face and the strong limitations on the length of their careers. Of course, they embarked on a brilliant campaign to alienate the fans — first by hiring a confrontational labor boss, DeMaurice Smith, and then by dragging out the deal for an extra week for no good reason.

The bottom line on this appalling mess is that neither side cares at all about you. If they did, they would have found a common ground long before this. If they did, they would have avoided the layoffs and the missed paychecks of so many innocent bystanders — and prevented a lockout that was about ego and greed.

So I’m sitting out the high fives and cartwheels.

When I watch the NFL, I will be cheering for the game, not the people.

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Truth be told Sports talk radio lines were still lighting up about it yesterday, a day after a report said the Eagles were pursuing Brett Favre.

But Favre’s agent, Bus Cook, tried to dispel the rumors, saying that Favre “hasn’t talked to anybody else about a comeback.”

The 41-year-old quarterback suffered through a dismal and injury-filled 2010, throwing 11 touchdowns against 19 interceptions.

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Kevin Kolb could be signing the mortgage on his new home right now.

With the NFL lockout over, teams may begin trading today. All indications are the Eagles want to waste no time in dealing their backup quarterback.

The rumor with the most legs has Kolb headed to Arizona for Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie and a draft pick. The Cardinals cornerback appeared on 610 WIP radio yesterday, but didn’t say much.

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