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PITTSBURGH - Sometimes, you forget what this stuff can mean to people. It is just sports, after all - right? But then you hear the story of Matt Liczbinski getting up at the funeral of his father, the slain Philadelphia police officer, and leading a chant of "Let's go Flyers . . . " It was to honor a man, and to remember the place that a hockey team held in his life.
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Sam Donnellon: Flyers' Knuble knows feeling a Stanley Cup run can bring to a community
2:20am
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MIKE KNUBLE grew up in Kentwood, Mich., played hockey for the University of Michigan, held the Stanley Cup in his hands at the end of his first two NHL seasons with Detroit. "The passion it brings out in the city and the fans is something you never forget," he said after the Flyers' practice yesterday. "In Detroit they had all those flags hanging on the cars . . .
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Rich Hofmann: Coburn has to step up without Timonen in Flyers lineup
2:20am
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PITTSBURGH - Sitting here in a hotel room, trying to make sense of how the Flyers are going to survive without Kimmo Timonen, thinking back to a conversation the other day with Braydon Coburn, the 23-year-old revelation who has been Timonen's defense partner throughout the playoffs.
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Flyers-Penguins: Season series in review
2:24am
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Compiled by Daily News
Nov. 7, at Pittsburgh: Flyers 3, Penguins 1
Flyers scorers: Joffrey Lupul, Jeff Carter, Mike Richards
Penguins scorer: Ryan Malone
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Flyers-Penguins: Seven story lines
2:24am
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by Paul Vigna
1. This series lately has been feast or famine. The Flyers went 6-1-1 vs. the Penguins in 2005-06, then 0-8 the following season. They won the first four this season, then lost the next three before winning the finale. It would be hard to imagine these teams trading wins.
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Flyers' sales booming
2:20am
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DERRICK MORGAN, marketing manager for Modell's, said there's definitely a different feel between this wave of Flyers sales and the ka-boom that surrounded the Phillies.
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Flyers meet Penguins tonight without top defenseman Timonen
2:20am
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THE FLYERS have absorbed injuries all season without a significant decline in play.
They did it as recently as Game 5 in the Eastern Conference semifinals against the Washington Capitals, when forward Mike Knuble was lost for the rest of the series with a torn hamstring. They just plugged the hole and moved on.
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Flyers playoff goalies from Bernie Parent to Marty Biron
2:20am
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THE GODFATHER of Goal-tending has seen them all. He has been them, once.
Bernie Parent was the Flyers' goalie instructor when Ron Hextall, then an irreverent rookie, propelled the club to the 1987 Stanley Cup finals.
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How hockey writers see Flyers-Penguins series
2:20am
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Ed Moran
Beating a team that has a pair of superstars in Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin was going to be hard enough for the Flyers before the loss of defenseman Kimmo Timonen to a blood clot in his left ankle. But what was once difficult yet doable just became nearly impossible.
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Bill Conlin: So far, IronPigs are just minor league scrapple
2:20am
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IT IS A terrible thing for any professional baseball team to be 25 games under .500. That glaring minus number is code for a lost season, for 6 months of shattered dreams and an inexorable descent down the mineshaft leading to last place.
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Paul Hagen: Gavin-for-Freddy a Floydian slip for Phillies
2:24am
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by Paul Hagen
WHITE SOX righthander Gavin Floyd took a no-hitter into the ninth inning against the Twins this week. Last month, he had a no-no going into the eighth against Detroit. And you just know that's causing some indigestion down at One Citizens Bank Way.
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Phillies bats caught in Arizona's Webb
2:20am
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PHOENIX - It was a showdown between two Opening Day starters who have headed in opposite directions since their initial starts: Brandon Webb, the 2006 National League Cy Young winner, recorded his eighth straight victory to start the season, stymieing a Phillies lineup that couldn't seem to make solid contact with a variety of pitches that hitters say you can't appreciate unless you're standing in the box.
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Phillies-Giants preview
2:24am
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by David Murphy
Phillies at Giants, 10:15, AT&T Park, San Francisco. TV: CSN. Radio: WPHT (1210-AM), WUBA (1480-AM) Spanish.
Phillies LHP Cole Hamels (3-3, 3.10)vs. Giants LHP Patrick Misch (0-0, 5.40).
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Cards' Lohse at a loss again
2:20am
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He started the season so strong that Phillies observers grumbled, "Why didn't they keep Kyle Lohse?"
His recent work with the Cardinals might provide a good answer.
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Beckett gets 1,000th K as Red Sox beat Tigers
2:20am
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Josh Beckett got eight strikeouts, including the 1,000th of his career, and Kevin Youkilis homered to lead the visiting Boston Red Sox to a 5-1 win over the Detroit Tigers last night.
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CSN drops puck for Flyers-Penguins coverage
2:20am
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Comcast SportsNet starts early today in getting viewers ready for the Eastern Conference finals.
At 3 p.m., CSN will air an abbreviated replay of the 2000 Flyers-Penguins playoff game that ended at 2:35 a.m. after a goal by Keith Primeau in the fifth overtime.
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KEYS to the SERIES
2:20am
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1 Breaking serve.
Pittsburgh has won its five home playoff games by a combined score of 19-9 and hasn't lost at Mellon Arena in the 13 home games since goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury returned from an ankle injury on March 2.
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Duquesne's James to enter draft
2:20am
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PITTSBURGH - Shawn James, one of five Duquesne University basketball players shot on campus in September 2006, is passing up his senior season to enter the NBA draft.
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Red Wings take Game 1 over Stars
2:20am
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Johan Franzen, Brian Rafalski and Tomas Holmstrom scored power-play goals for the Detroit Red Wings, who built a big lead in the second period and coasted to a 4-1 win over the visiting Dallas Stars in Game 1 of the Western Conference finals last night at Joe Louis Arena.
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3 WINNERS
2:20am
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There were three winners in the Daily News Home Run Payoff contest yesterday.
Each winning a Phillies gift pack in the third inning were:
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Mosley-Judah fight canceled
2:20am
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Sugar Shane Mosley's fight with Zab Judah on May 31 was canceled yesterday after Judah seriously injured his arm in an accidental fall.
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Argentina's NBA stars to defend gold
2:20am
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - NBA stars Manu Ginobili, Fabricio Oberto, Luis Scola, Carlos Delfino and Andres Nocioni were selected for a preliminary 10-man roster to defend Argentina's basketball gold at the Beijing Olympics.
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Flyers' Upshall is feisty and talented
05/08/2008
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PATRICE BRISEBOIS was skating past the Flyers' bench near the end of Game 4 in the Wachovia Center just about the same time Scottie Upshall was coming off the ice and sitting down.
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Flyers-Penguins preview: Long games in other sports
05/08/2008
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by Ed Barkowitz
The longest contests all-time and in the last 25 years in the other professional sports:
Major league baseball
All time: May 1, 1920 - Brooklyn and host Boston's game is called a 1-1 tie after 26 innings. Leon Cadore of Brooklyn and Joe Oeschger of the Braves each pitched the full 26 frames.
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Stars have a prayer in series vs. Wings
05/08/2008
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The Detroit Red Wings just about lapped the competition in the regular season and have rolled to six straight wins in the playoffs, heading into the Western Conference finals.
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Nadal's run cut short
05/08/2008
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IT WAS ONLY HIS second loss on clay in
105 matches. Spaniard Rafael Nadal's quest for a trophy at the Rome Masters ended yesterday when he fell to countryman Juan Carlos
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Stars-Red Wings: How we see it
05/08/2008
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by Daily News
Ed Barkowitz
After seeing what the Red Wings did to Colorado, it's hard not to pick Detroit to win - and win very quickly. But I like Dallas, which has faced tougher competition the first two rounds and has had 4 days off to nurse any wounds. Nobody can match the Red Wings in talent, but I like the Stars' grit. Dallas in 6.
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Sam Donnellon: Playoff success is icing on cake for Flyers
05/08/2008
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STORIES ALREADY abound about John Stevens, the man and the coach. Switching the lockers around during that March slump got a lot of attention, and the other day there was talk about an exercise in which the players were assigned scouting duties for the upcoming Pittsburgh series.
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Phillies Notebook: Besides Utley and Burrell, Phillies' lumber slumbering
05/08/2008
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AWELL-OILED baseball offense calls to mind Chinese water torture, with runs coming at a steady, even pace as hitters reach base and are subsequently cycled around toward home. For the first 5 weeks of this season, however, the bulk of the Phillies' production has come in the form of a pair of tidal waves named Pat Burrell and Chase Utley.
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Phillies hit at the right times against Arizona
05/08/2008
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PHOENIX - All season, the Phillies' offense has somehow found ways to push runs across the plate. They haven't always done it in the most traditional fashion, but they have scored.
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Marlins' Olsen showing signs of maturity
05/08/2008
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By ISRAEL GUTIERREZ , McClatchy Newspapers
MIAMI - Scott Olsen settles onto the home dugout bench at Dolphin Stadium, shades and ballcap on, both legs fidgeting, staring straight ahead at a field beginning to stir with pregame activity.
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Phillies have grand old time on back-to-back nights
05/08/2008
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On back-to-back nights, the Phillies have made someone in the Delaware Valley $1,000 richer.
This time, the lucky recipient was Susan Fryer, of Little Egg Harbor, N.J., who has third baseman Pedro Feliz to thank. His one-out, two-run blast in the seventh inning last night momentarily tied the third game in a four-game series with Arizona at 3-3 in a game the Phils won, 5-4.
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Phillies-Diamondbacks preview
05/08/2008
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by David Murphy
Phillies at Diamondbacks, 3:40, Chase Field, Phoenix. TV: CSN. Radio: WPHT (1210-AM), WUBA (1480-AM) Spanish.
Phillies RHP Brett Myers (2-2, 4.70) vs. Diamondbacks RHP Brandon Webb (7-0, 2.49)
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John Smallwood: Sixers becoming team with strong identity
05/08/2008
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FROM THE MOMENT he took the job, Sixers president/general manager Ed Stefanski envisioned the type of team he wanted.
Sticking to the building plan was one of the primary reasons he traded veteran shooter and popular teammate Kyle Korver to the Utah Jazz.
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NFL to receive Patriots tapes
05/08/2008
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NEW YORK - Former Patriots video assistant Matt Walsh sent the NFL eight videotapes that show New England violated league rules by recording opposing coaches' playcalling signals.
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Lewis leads Magic over Pistons
05/08/2008
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Rashard Lewis scored a career playoff-high 33 points and the Orlando Magic broke down the visiting Detroit Pistons' stout defense in a 111-86 victory last night.
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Indians' Lee wins battle of unbeatens
05/08/2008
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Cliff Lee met Chien-Ming Wang in a matchup of unbeaten starters, but only Lee remained unbeaten.
Lee (6-0) threw seven sharp innings last night and became the first Indians pitcher to win his first six starts since Greg Swindell in 1988 as Cleveland beat host New York, 3-0. The lefthander lowered his major league-best ERA to a microscopic 0.81 and has allowed just four earned runs in 44 2/3 innings after a rough 2007 that included a stint in the minors.
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La Salle can't weight for Mansion's Devon White to join basketball team
05/08/2008
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Shortly after reading a prepared statement telling family, friends and teammates of his intention to attend La Salle University in the fall on a basketball scholarship, 6-8, 220-pound Devon White stood up from the table set up near the front entrance of Strawberry Mansion High and pulled a La Salle basketball T-shirt over his school-mandated white polo shirt.
