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Duel of Aces Doesn't Materialize as Misfit Giants Carry the Day in Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA -- So no jersey or game ball will be making its way to Cooperstown. Doc didn't throw another gem, and the Freak failed to make your jaw hit the floor. It wasn't quite the pitching duel we so eagerly awaited, not that anyone who inhales baseball this time of year should be complaining. In the end, it was the...

Roy Halladay's Career Finally Rewarded With Postseason

PHILADELPHIA -- For all of his previous 11 years in the big leagues, Roy Halladay's season expired after 162 games. No matter how well he did out on that mound could ever alter the closing date. It would arrive like clockwork in Toronto, accompanied by hollow harangues about next year and the brisk autumn air. Forever...

In Crazy Sports World, Taser Fine by Me

When a suspected terrorist tries to set off a car bomb in Times Square, evacuating much of midtown Manhattan in a scene out of a fright movie, then it seems any sicko act is possible in any public area. It's the end of the world as we know it in 2010, and other than one old rock star, nobody feels fine. Which is why I...

Football, Baseball and Brotherly Love - Philadelphia Is Sports Heaven

PHILADELPHIA -- Mike Alvarez is a lifelong Philadelphian with a Cole Hamels haircut and a vintage maroon Phillies cap who spent his Sunday in a parking lot. Alvarez didn't have tickets to the Eagles-Giants game in the afternoon. He didn't have tickets to the Phillies-Yankees World Series game at night. What he did have was...

As Flu Spreads, Some Panic

First, the swine flu story line was about how many people didn't want the vaccine. Now that there's less of it than officials promised, people are clamoring for the vaccine and a type of public hysteria is becoming part of the story. "I've never seen it like this," a besieged doctor's office administrator in suburban...

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The Philadelphia Phillies are a Major League Baseball team. They are the oldest continuous, one-name, one-city franchise in all of professional American sports, dating to 1883. The Phillies are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's National League.

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