Saturday, November 24, 2007
SIXERS NEWS
Losses don't get much more heartbreaking than this one. The Sixers returned home to the Wachovia center tonight to face the Golden State Warriors. Offensively, Andre Iguodala with 26, Andre Miller with 23, and Louis Williams off the bench with 18 led the way. Defensively the Sixers held Golden State to just 39.1% shooting and turned the ball over just 16 times to the Warrior's 18 turnovers. However, Golden state outrebounded the Sixers 54-47, and shot better down the stretch. The Sixers jumped out to a quick start leading by 7(30-23) after the 1st period. The Sixers upped the lead to 12 at the half with a season high 57 points to the warriors 45. Unfortunately they cooled off in the 2nd half, as the Warriors cut the lead to 1 by the end of the 3rd quarter(76-75). Still, the Sixers kept fighting and hung on to force the game into overtime tied at 90 after Andre Iguodala missed a shot at the buzzer. In overtime the lead jockeyed back and forth between the two teams. The Sixers took a 98-97 lead with 13 seconds to play on layup by Iguodala. Then with 6 seconds to play Kelenna Azabuike hit a three pointer to put Golden state up 100-98. The Sixers had one last chance to tie or win, but as he was driving to the basket Louis Williams turned the ball over with one second to play and the Warriors hung on to defeat the Sixers 100-98. The Sixers drop to 3-9 overall and into a tie for last place in the Atlantic division.
FLYERS NEWS
While the Eagles face the NFL's best tomorrow, the Flyers faced off against the NHL's best tonight as they traveled to Ottawa to face the Senators. Thanks to 3 points from Daniel Briere(1 goal and 2 assists) and 29 saves by Antero Niittymaki in a rare start, the Flyers surprised the Senators and prevailed. Wade Redden scored early in the 1st period to put Ottawa up 1-0. R.J Umberger knotted it up at 1 for the Flyers a couple minutes later. Late in the period Danny Heatley scored to put Ottawa up 2-1. Early in the 2nd period Scott Hartnell scored to tie up again at 2. A few minutes later Chris Schubert put Ottawa back ahead 3-2. Mike Richards tied it up again at 3 a couple minutes later. Finally, late in the period Briere put the Flyers up 4-3 heading into the 3rd period. From there Niittymaki kept Ottawa from lighting the lamp and the Flyers hung on to win 4-3. So the Flyers improve to 13-7-2 overall and move back into a tie for 1st in the Atlantic division.
EAGLES NEWS
The Eagles are in a world of trouble now as they get ready to face the New England Patriots tomorrow night. Donovan Mcnabb will not be play in the game, as he is nursing a sprained ankle and a sore thumb. Instead A.J Feeley will get the start. So the Eagles chances of shocking the world by defeating the mighty Patriots have now gone from slim to none.
Friday, November 23, 2007
SIXERS NEWS
The Sixers traveled to Detroit tonight to face the always tough Detroit Pistons. As usual against the Pistons defense was the name of the game, but the Sixers were still productive offensively with Andre Iguodala's 17 points, leading 5 Sixers players scoring in double figures(Iguodala, Andre Miller, Samuel Dalembert, Willie Green, Louis Williams). Defensively, the Sixers ruled the boards with 47 to Detroit's 36. However the Sixers also turned the ball over 14 times to Detroit's 6, and shot just 39.1% from the field, while Detroit shot 41.5% from the field. Thus Detroit prevailed. Early on it was all knotted up at 17 after the 1st period. The Pistons led by 2 at the half, with the score at 40-38. By the end of the 3rd quarter Detroit was ahead by 10 with the score at 64-54. Finally, in the 4th quarter the Sixers rallied back and actually cut the Pistons lead to 1 with just under 15 seconds to play, as Iguodala nailed a 3 pointer. Unfortunately from there the Sixers did not score again and the Pistons made their free throws to hang on for a hard fought 83-78 victory. So the Sixers drop to 3-8 overall, but remain 4th in the Atlantic division.
FLYERS NEWS
In their usual post Thanksgiving matinee this afternoon the Flyers welcomed Alexander Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals to the Wachovia center. Thanks to 31 saves by Marty Biron the Flyers were able to make it a close game but Washington ultimately prevailed. Early on it was all Washington. Mike Green made it 1-0 Capitals early in the 1st period. Early in the 2nd period Chris Clark made it 2-0 Caps. Then late in the period all heck broke loose. Former Flyer Donald Brashear made it 3-0 Caps, but Daniele Briere and Jeff Carter scored goals minutes apart from each other and suddenly it was only 3-2 Caps heading into 3rd period. Late in the 3rd, Mike Richards knotted it at 3 to complete the Flyers rally and force the game into overtime. There, just under 2 minutes in Nicklas Backstrom scored for a 4-3 Capitals victory. So the Flyers drop to 12-7-2 overall, but remain in 2nd place in the Atlantic division, just 2 points behind the Rangers.
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
FLYERS NEWS
So far this month with one of their top goal scorers, Simon Gagne, on ir the Flyers had struggled. They hadn't been getting many shots on goal ,and very few goals. The defense had likewise begun to slow down somewhat, leaving Marty Biron to fend for himself against a barage of shots. So all that said, as the Flyers traveled to Charlotte, to face the Carolina Hurricanes and their former comrade Rod Brindamour, they sorely needed a win and a clean performance to restore their own belief in themselves. Thanks to a hat trick by Daniel Briere and 32 saves from Biron the Flyers got their win and perhaps some much needed confidence. In the first period Brindamour put the Canes ahead 1-0 with a power play goal late in the period. In the 2nd period the Flyers forged ahead 2-1 on goals from Mike Knuble and Kimmo Timonen. The 3rd period was a sea saw battle. First Briere scored 21 seconds in for a 3-1 Flyers lead. Eric Staal answered for the Canes with a power play to cut the lead to 3-2. Briere responded with his 2nd goal 1 minute later for a 4-2 lead. A couple minutes later Matt Cullen scored another power play goal for the canes, cutting the lead to 4-3. Briere responded again late in the period with his 3rd goal for a 5-3 lead. later with under a minute to play Scott Hartnell fired yet another goal into the Canes empty net to cap off the 6-3 Flyers victory. So the Flyers improve to 12-7-1(the one refers to an overtime loss, rather than a tie) overall but remain 2nd in the Atlantic division two points behind the NY Rangers.
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
SIXERS NEWS
After a key win over the Trailblazers in their last game, the Sixers were looking to keep things rolling tonight against the Washington Wizards. Unfortunately the Wizards were just red-hot tonight from the field, shooting a combined 57.3%, and the Sixers just had no answer for this stellar offense, falling to Washington in a laugher. Offensively, Louis Williams led the way with 25 points off the bench, Thaddeus Young chipped in with 14 points off the bench, and Andre Iguodala, and Rodney each added 10 points. Defensively, due to the above shooting stats, the Sixers were nothing short of abysmal. Early on the Sixers actually led 26-24 after the 1st quarter. Then Washington took over. By halftime the Wizards led by 16 points. By the end of the 3rd quarter Washington was up 30 points and a Wizards victory was all but a formality. Still the Sixers kept fighting in the 4th quarter and actually managed to cut the lead down to 15, but it was to no avail, as the Sixers fell to Washington 116-101. The Sixers now drop to 3-7 overall, and stay in 4th place in the Atlantic Division just the ahead of the struggling New York Knicks.
PHILLIES NEWS
The Phils have brought in a lot of hardware this offseason, but today they got the big prize as Jimmy Rollins was named NL MVP by a slim margin over Matt Holiday of the Colorado Rockies. Rollins wins largely on the strength of becoming just the 4th player in major league history to have 20 homers, 20 doubles, 20 triples, and 20 stolen bases in the same season(Curtis Granderson, Frank "wildfire" Shultze, and the Say Hey kid, Willie Mays were the others). Rollins becomes just the 5th Phillies player to be named NL mvp, after Ryan Howard, Mike Schmidt(3 times), Jim Konstanty, and Chuck Klein. Also JRoll, and Howard are the 1st teammates to be named MVP in back to back seasons, since the San Francisco Giants Barry Bonds and Jeff Kent in 2000-2001. In all, this off season Rollins has been awarded with a silver slugger award, a gold glove award, and now the NL MVP. It seems the only thing missing is that world series ring. We'll have to fix that.
Monday, November 19, 2007
Sunday, November 18, 2007
EAGLES NEWS
For the second week in a row, it wasn' t pretty but against the winless Dolphins the Eagles did just enough to win, clinching their first back-to-back wins of the season. On offense the key contributors were as usual Brian Westbrook with 32 carries for 148 yards, and A.J Feeley with 13 completions out of 19 pass attempts for 116 yards and a TD(Mcnabb went down late in the 2nd quarter with a knee sprain, but chances are he'll be back next week against the Pats). On defense the Eagles simply played well as a whole, keeping the Dolphins offense out of the endzone, and limiting it to just 186 yards. Initially, the winless Dolphins actually led 7-0 on an 84 yard punt return by Ted Ginn early in the second quarter. After 3 consecutive turnovers in the redzone, the Eagles finally got on the board late in the 2nd quarter as David Akers booted a 34 yard field goal to cut the lead to 7-3 at the half. The Eagles then opened the second half with a long drive capped off by an 8 yard Touchdown plunge by Correll Buckhalter for a 10-7 Eagles lead. It stayed that way until the Eagles opened the 4th quarter with another long time consuming drive, capped off by Feeley's 4 yard TD pass to Jason Avant, for a 17-7 Eagles lead. Later after the Eagles held the fins on the 4 downs at the Eagles 1 yard line, Feeley and the offense ran out the clock for win. So the Eagles improve to 5-5 overall, just 1 game out of the final playoff spot in the NFC. They're chances of getting that spot are still pretty slim though, as the brutal final stretch of games to finish their season can attest.
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