NHL: Players offer new plan on 67th day of lockout
NEW YORK - NHL players gave management a new proposal Wednesday that the union said left sides less than $40 million apart annually over a five-year contract.After a day away from bargaining for...
View ArticleNHL cancels games through Dec. 14, All-Star game
NEW YORK - The NHL has called off all games through Dec. 14, plus the 2013 NHL All-Star Weekend scheduled for Jan. 26-27 in Columbus, Ohio.The league made the announcement Friday, the 69th day of the...
View ArticlePhiladelphia Eagles: Nnamdi Asomugha reflects on the teams defensive...
PHILADELPHIA - There is right and wrong, good and bad and somewhere between those extremes, Eagles cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha.The decision to sign Asomugha to a five-year $60 million contract with $25...
View ArticlePhiladelphia Eagles Notebook: Michael Vick and LeSean McCoy not ruled out...
PHILADELPHIA - Eagles quarterback Michael Vick has graduated to Phase 2 in the five-step concussion protocol program he must complete without symptoms in order to be cleared to play.While head coach...
View ArticlePhiladelphia 76ers: Sixers back to work after holiday break
PHILADELPHIA - Whether it was their coach's intent, or if it was instead a form of flagellation for their string of rocky openings to games, the Sixers practiced for two and a half hours Friday.The...
View ArticleBoxing: Hector Macho Camacho dies in Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Former championship boxer Hector "Macho" Camacho died Saturday at the hospital in Puerto Rico where he has been unconscious since he was shot in the face in an attack in his...
View ArticlePhiladelphia Eagles: Michael Vick makes progress in concussion rehab
PHILADELPHIA - You haven't seen the last of Michael Vick this season.The veteran Eagles quarterback has made significant progress rehabbing from the concussion he suffered two weeks ago.While Vick...
View ArticlePhiladelphia Eagles Notebook: Jon Grudens arrival could stir up fan reaction
PHILADELPHIA - Even the hint of a Jon Gruden arrival gets motors running at the Eagles' practice facility.And so it was Saturday.The ESPN bus, with the words "IT ALL COMES DOWN TO MONDAY NIGHT" printed...
View ArticlePhiladelphia 76ers: Sixers dropped by Thunder in overtime
PHILADELPHIA - Thad Young added nearly 15 pounds of muscle in the offseason, probably for games like Saturday night's. It helped, but only to a degree.Young's big-time effort, which included a number...
View ArticlePhiladelphia 76ers Notebook: Evan Turner lagging in first quarter
PHILADELPHIA - Counting the 2012 playoffs, Evan Turner has started the 76ers' last 25 games.For Turner's sake, he hopes that streak doesn't end any time soon, even though his coach has hinted at...
View ArticlePhiladelphia Eagles: When it rains, it pours odds not in birds favor against...
PHILADELPHIA - Change appears to be inevitable for the Eagles, who take on the Carolina Panthers Monday night at Lincoln Financial Field (8:30, PHL 17, ESPN, WIP 94.1-FM).For perspective, the Eagles...
View ArticlePhiladelphia 76ers Notebook: Collins sends rookies into trial by fire
PHILADELPHIA - Having lost more games than they'd won in the last week, the 76ers decided to turn loose their rookies.Forward Arnett Moultrie and point guard Maalik Wayns were added to the Sixers'...
View ArticlePhiladelphia 76ers: Holiday leads Sixers to victory over Suns, 104-101
PHILADELPHIA - Nothing like playing the league's worst defense to charge up your offense. Well, sort of.The Sixers, behind a sterling effort by Jrue Holiday, weathered a few shaky series in the fourth...
View ArticlePhiladelphia 76ers: No rest for weary as Holiday nets 33
PHILADELPHIA - It's not unusual for Doug Collins to send Jrue Holiday to the 76ers' bench, in a clandestine fashion, at the start of the fourth quarter.Give the guy credit. He's trying to rest his...
View ArticlePhiladelphia Eagles Notebook: Reid, players disagree about leadership deficit
PHILADELPHIA - A six-game losing streak and a head coach in distress should activate the airbags.After all, that qualifies as a wreck.Yet only a few Eagles have gone above and beyond their duties to...
View ArticlePhiladelphia Eagles Notebook: Vincent can sense lack of leadership with Birds
PHILADELPHIA - Troy Vincent was inducted into the Eagles Hall of Fame Monday night with long-time ticket manager Leo Carlin.The five-time Pro Bowl cornerback barely had thanked everyone for the honor...
View ArticlePhiladelphia Eagles: Jeffery Lurie still not pulling the plug on his head...
PHILADELPHIA - Rightly or wrongly, fair or not, from kickoff in Week 1 until their 30-22 loss Monday night to the Carolina Panthers, the Eagles were under one 2012 mandate: Lose fewer than eight...
View ArticlePhiladelphia Eagles: Birds cut Jason Babin
PHILADELPHIA - One of the most difficult players for Eagles fans to love was defensive end Jason Babin.You could almost hear critics of the high-priced pass rusher shout "yes!" after he was cut...
View ArticlePhiladelphia Eagles Notebook: DeSean Jackson out for the year
PHILADELPHIA - Eagles wide receiver DeSean Jackson is out for the season with two cracked ribs.X-rays Monday night completely missed the damage as the preliminary report was negative.At any rate...
View ArticlePhiladelphia 76ers Notebook: Elton Brand empathizes with Andrew Bynum
PHILADELPHIA - Whatever's going through Andrew Bynum's head these days, Elton Brand said he's shared those thoughts.Brand battled through a ruptured left Achilles' tendon to play the final eight games...
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