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Author: Rick Pettine

Rick Pettine is an experienced sports, music, nature, and events photographer from the Philadelphia region. He covers Philly and the surrounding tri-state area, including Chester, Montgomery, and Delaware counties. He also serves as the Sports Director & Chief Photographer for "Independent Philly"

Penn Defense Shuts Down Temple

[ Photos and story by Rick Pettine ] January 25 – PHILADELPHIA — Although it was a non-league matchup, the home-turf battle went to the Penn Quakers, as they shut down a strong Temple scoring machine to win 66-59 at The Palestra. Prior to the game at center court, Penn honored former Penn AND Temple coach […]

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Wings Lacrosse turned up the heat on Local Heroes Appreciation Night

[ Story and photos by Rick Pettine ] January 24, 2020 – PHILADELPHIA — The Wings, Philadelphia’s professional National Lacrosse League team, defeated the NY Riptide 14-6 on Local Heroes Night, a salute to our men and women in the military and first responders. If you’ve never been to a professional indoor lacrosse game, you owe […]

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Philadelphia hosts World Championship Boxing Matches

[ Story and photos by Rick Pettine ] January 18, 2020 – PHILADELPHIA –– Temple University’s Liacouras Center was the host venue for the World Super Welterweight Championship and World Super Featherweight Championship boxing matches. But a hopeful homecoming win for West Philadelphia native and World Super Welterweight champ Julian “J-Rock” Williams ended as a title […]

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Flyers fall at home to red hot Lightning

[ Story and photos by Rick Pettine ] PHILADELPHIA – January 11, 2020 — If there was any good news in the 1-0 loss on home ice to Tampa Bay, it was that the Flyers limited the Lightning to only 1 goal. And that fluky goal was a bouncing puck from Anthony Cirelli that slipped past […]

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The Struts return to Philly for two sold-out shows at The Fillmore

[ Story and photos by Rick Pettine ] December 29, 2019 – PHILADELPHIA — It’s official…The Struts love Philadelphia, and Philadelphia loves The Struts! The four member, high energy band from Derby England rocked The Fillmore with back-to-back capacity-crowd shows. Opening for The Struts was Philadelphia native band, The Underground Thieves, whose 6 members all hail […]

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