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Flyers flounder against Devils in 7-0 shutout

NEWARK, N.J. — At the All-Star Game, New Jersey Devils star Jack Hughes vowed to get revenge on the Flyers in their final matchup of the season, as Philadelphia held the 2-1 series edge.

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Mike Sielski: Sixers guard Mac McClung’s slam-dunking rise to celebrity shows the evolution of basketball

WILMINGTON, Del. — All of them came to see him, all of them.

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Flyers fall flat in 5-2 loss to Canadiens

PHILADELPHIA — With four injured players watching from the press box, the Flyers reached the point where they chose to play a defenseman as a forward over any of their forward options and fell, 5-2, to the Montreal Canadiens, the fourth-worst offensive team in the league.

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Marcus Hayes: Jalen Hurts was almost perfect in the Super Bowl for the Eagles. Pay him. $250 million, guaranteed.

PHILADELPHIA — Jalen Hurts made the biggest mistake of any player at Super Bowl LVII when he fumbled in the second quarter and saw it returned for a touchdown. The play will haunt him for the rest of his career.

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Why does Swarthmore’s basketball team practice foul shots from 14 1/2 feet? Science.

PHILADELPHIA — Allen Schneider, longtime Swarthmore College psychology and neuroscience professor, is a basketball fan, but he wasn’t actively looking for ways to help out Swarthmore’s men’s basketball team. He’d just watched Garnet coach Landry Kosmalski enough to think the coach might be receptive to this theory in Schneider’s own…

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Sixers overcome poor start and Joel Embiid’s illness in 110-105 victory over Memphis Grizzlies

PHILADELPHIA — Right now, the 76ers plan to live life like a cliché.

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Sixers star James Harden sends game-worn shoes, video chats with Michigan State shooting survivor

PHILADELPHIA — James Harden reached out to John Hao, one of the students recovering from the shooting on Michigan State’s campus. The 76ers standout talked to him via video chat and sent several sneakers, including game-worn items, while Hao is recovering at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, Mich.

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4 people shot in Philly's Strawberry Mansion district

PHILADELPHIA — Four people — including two juveniles — were wounded in a shooting Thursday evening in the city’s Strawberry Mansion section, police said.

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7 people, including a 2-year-old girl and 5 teenagers, were shot in Philly's Strawberry Mansion district

PHILADELPHIA — Seven people, including a 2-year-old girl and five teenagers, were wounded in a shooting Thursday evening near a school in the city’s Strawberry Mansion section, police said.

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Marcus Hayes: The Sixers’ ‘Process’ era either pays off or fails for good in the next two months

PHILADELPHIA — Ten years ago, Josh Harris hired Sam Hinkie to clean up the Andrew Bynum mess and begin The Process. Hinkie failed in both transaction and culture, but reset the salary cap and asset cache, which he handed to Bryan Colangelo, who failed at everything except retaining coach Brett…

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Noah Song hasn’t pitched in three years, but the Phillies think his talent is worth the gamble

CLEARWATER, Fla. — A few months ago, Noah Song was sitting in his room at his rental house in Jacksonville, Fla., when he got a text from Bobby Applegate, his former pitching coach at the Naval Academy.

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A national forest site is now named after a Black paratrooper who died in a secret mission

PHILADELPHIA -- On the day that the United States stunned the world by dropping an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, a young Black man from the Main Line area of Philadelphia died in obscurity in a remote Oregon forest, the end of a brief military career that became enmeshed in some…

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Editorial: Social media companies must curtail the spread of misinformation

About 500 hours of video gets uploaded to YouTube every minute. The online video-sharing platform houses more than 800 million videos and is the second most visited site in the world, with 2.5 billion active monthly users.

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Alex Morgan, Mallory Swanson carry USWNT to 2-1 win over Brazil in SheBelieves Cup finale

FRISCO, Texas — It wasn't the first time that this edition of the U.S. women's soccer team didn't always look good against a big-time opponent. And it wasn't the first time that the Americans left the field winners anyway.

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Gov. Josh Shapiro expects John Fetterman to ‘come back stronger than ever’ after hospitalization for clinical depression

PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro expressed confidence this week in Sen. John Fetterman’s return to the U.S. Senate and said he wouldn’t entertain outside pressures for him to resign after his second hospitalization this month.

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David Murphy: The Sixers are about to show us who they are

One of the best things about the Eagles’ and Phillies’ playoff runs was not having to pay attention to the 76ers. Sometimes, the best therapy is a little distance. Not that we’re having problems. It’s just that, after six years together, things can start to feel a little stale. Don’t…

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Pitcher Noah Song discharged from the Navy, expected to report to Phillies Thursday

CLEARWATER, Fla. — Right-handed pitcher Noah Song was discharged from the Navy and will report to Phillies spring training camp on Thursday, the team announced on Wednesday.

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Joel Embiid’s MVP push, starting lineup among Sixers storylines to watch down NBA’s stretch run

PHILADELPHIA — The All-Star break is incorrectly billed as the NBA season’s midway point, given that the 76ers have only 25 regular-season games remaining before a crucial playoff run.

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This debate team has no coach and no budget. But it just scored a big national win

PHILADELPHIA — Masterman School's debate team has no budget or coach. It competes against teams from well-funded suburban districts and pricey private schools with long histories of big-stage victories.

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Historic 'Blue Plaque' for MLK unveiled: first in US by British Trust known for recognizing Black history

PHILADELPHIA — Unitarian Universalist clergy Hannah Capaldi and members of the First Unitarian Church at 21st & Chestnut Streets in Philadelphia always "knew" of the connection between their church and Martin Luther King Jr.

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Flyers blow a late lead and fall to the Edmonton Oilers, 4-2

EDMONTON, Alberta — Heading into the third period with a 2-1 lead over the Edmonton Oilers, the Flyers needed to stay out of the box and play smart defensively to pick up a second consecutive win. They did neither.

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MLS changes its playoff format again, now guaranteeing home games for more teams

Major League Soccer changed its playoff format yet again on Tuesday, after months of rumors and a lot of criticism from fans who liked how things were the last few years.

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The USWNT and Brazil are set for the latest in a history of star-studded clashes

FRISCO, Texas — At a World Cup draw, a country’s group-stage fate is decided in part by how the pingpong balls come out of the pots on stage. But friendly tournament schedules are human creations.

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Slain Temple officer Christopher Fitzgerald’s death an ‘extraordinary loss,’ officials say

PHILADELPHIA — Temple University Police Officer Christopher Fitzgerald was patrolling an area near campus Saturday night that had experienced a rash of recent carjackings and robberies when he noticed three people wearing black clothing with masks over their faces.

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Why did Kurt Vile’s record label send him a vegan cheesesteak sculpture?

PHILADELPHIA — Kurt Vile is the face of Philadelphia indie-rock, from his “Wakin on a Pretty Daze” mural in Fishtown to the sense of place that runs through Philly-proud songs like “Loading Zones” and “Mount Airy Hill (Way Gone).”

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