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Last season, fans missed out on a chance to see LeBron James play in Philadelphia. With a meeting scheduled last January, James was dinged up with a knee injury and took a few weeks off, including that game. It left many fans unsatisfied as tickets for some areas approached triple digits in cost. Tonight, however, […]

  View image | gettyimages.com The Phillies completed their coaching staff on Monday with the hiring of an organization staple.  Mickey Morandini, who played second base for the Phillies from 1990 through 1997 and once again in 2000 will be returning to the big league club as a coach.  Morandini will serve as the Phillies […]

  View image | gettyimages.com Take in these stats. Defenseman Mark Streit leads the team in points with seven in 10 games. Defenseman Luke Schenn has more goals, one, and more points, four, than Jake Voracek — no goals and three points — and Schenn has been a healthy scratch for four games. Expected secondary scorers are […]

  View image | gettyimages.com The New York Mets have an outstanding young pitching rotation and an outstanding young closer.  But that was not enough to defeat the Kansas City Royals, who took the World Series from the Mets in five games last night at Citi Field in New York.   While Phillies fans might […]

  View image | gettyimages.com Despite one of the highest payrolls in baseball, the team was not winning.  The core was aging and falling apart; only the attendance was falling as much as the core's production.  The fans became angry with their general manager, and ultimately he was relieved of his duties.  No, that does […]

  View image | gettyimages.com According to ESPN's Adam Schefter, the Philadelphia Eagles are looking to make some moves before the trade deadline. 

October 27, 1971 On this day in 1971, Mike Ricci, the first-round pick of the Flyers in the 1990 NHL Draft –fourth overall — was born. The 1990 NHL Draft was considered to be one of the deepest in years and some 25 years later and those predictions rang true. Ricci was one of the many […]

  View image | gettyimages.com When the Phillies acquired Rangers catching prospect Jorge Alfaro, he was out with an ankle injury that required surgery.  Alfaro did not return in time for the 2015 season at any level.   Alfaro now is just about ready to play baseball again: Jim Salisbury of CSN Philly reports the […]

SWISH pic.twitter.com/1ZqNbtlo5B — Alessandro Gasparro (@sandrogasparro) October 29, 2015 Big Jah had a blast stream rolling Tyler Zeller into the floor of the Boston Garden, but the Stifle Tower won't go down so easily.   The Sixers' Twin Towers of Nerlens Noel and Jahlil Okafor had an impressive debut agains the Celtics on Tuesday, with […]