Columnists

Phil Sheridan: New Flyers fans missed a lot: The team that thrives on adversity got a fresh dose of it on the eve of its Eastern Conference finals series against the Pittsburgh Penguins.
On Local Colleges: Local College Season Honors: Michael Blodgett, Penn, all-Ivy League men's golf team, league champion. Catherine Carr, Holy Family, ECAC Division II women's basketball rookie of the year.
On Local Colleges: Local College Season Honors: Michael Blodgett, Penn, all-Ivy League men's golf team, league champion. Catherine Carr, Holy Family, ECAC Division II women's basketball rookie of the year.
Paul Hagen: Gavin-for-Freddy a Floydian slip for Phillies: 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.
Sam Donnellon: Flyers' Knuble knows feeling a Stanley Cup run can bring to a community: 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 . . .
Rich Hofmann: Coburn has to step up without Timonen in Flyers lineup: 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.
Bill Conlin: So far, IronPigs are just minor league scrapple: 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.