The Sixers returned to action tonight as they welcomed the New York Knicks to the Wachovia center. From the beginning it was a shootout and as in their last meeting the Sixers' firepower proved to much for New York. Offensively, Andre Iguodala led the way with 24 points, while Andre Miller added 21 points, and Sammy Dalembert registered his first double double in a while with 10 points and 17 rebounds, as the Sixers shot another hot 53% from the field. Neither team really played much defense, although the Sixers did rack up 10 steals, 8 blocks, and 41 rebounds and thus the win. The Sixers took the early lead after a quarter of play with the score 36-30. The Knicks rallied back in the 2nd quarter to take a 3 point lead, with the score 66-63. In the 3rd quarter the Sixers rolled back ahead by 5 with the score 86-81. In the 4th quarter the Sixers simply maintained their lead eventually hanging on to win 116-110. So the Sixers again move to an even .500 at 21-21 overall and remain 7th in the Eastern conference.
Saturday, January 24, 2009
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009
FLYERS NEWS
Even though the All-star break is over a week away, the Flyers played their last game of the season's first half tonight, as they welcomed the Atlanta Thrashers to the Wachovia center. Not surprisingly Antero Niittymaki got the start in goal and for two periods he was impenetrable, then in the 3rd period the Thrashers snuck a few bye him, but with 28 saves out of the 31 shots he faced it was enough. Meanwhile, Mike Knuble scored a couple of late goals, both set up by Simon Gagne, to help push the Flyers to victory. About halfway through the first period Scott Hartnell scored for a 1-0 lead. Late in the period Darroll Powe scored for a 2-0 lead. Early in the 3rd period Randy Jones made it 3-0. Early in the 3rd period the Thrashers gave the Flyers ascare with quick scores by Eric Perrin, Ilya Kovalchuk, and Chris Thorburn to knot it up at 3, less than 11 minutes into the period. From there Knuble righted the ship with a quick score to put the Flyers up 4-3 a minute later, and then put away a 5-3 win with just under a minute to play. So the Orange and Black improve to 25-12-9 for 59 points and now 6th in the Eastern conference, thanks to all their down time.
PHILLIES NEWS
The Phils continued to avoid arbritration today, signing Jayson Werth to a 2 year deal and reliever Chad Durbin to a one year deal. All of which means that Ryan Howard is only remaining arbritration eligible player that has not yet come to terms with the Phils, and he probably won't for a while.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
PHILLIES NEWS
The Phils continued to avoid arbitration today signing Shane Victorino to a one year 3.1 million deal and Joe Blanton to a one year 5.4 million deal. Unfortunately Ryan Howard remains arbitration eligible as he seeks a 18 million deal while the Phils offer him a 14 million deal. Uh oh. Sorry Ruben looks like you're not getting out of this one.
Monday, January 19, 2009
SIXERS NEWS
Well it had to come to an end some time. After an impressive 7 game winning streak got them back to .500 the Sixers finally ran out of magic this afternoon as they welcomed the Dallas Mavericks to the Wachovia center. While the defense remained solid the hot shooting finally cooled off a bit as the Sixers shot just 42% from the field and a still impressive 40% from beyond the arc. Lou Williams led the way with 25 points off the bench, while Andre Iguodala added 18 and 12 rebounds. Defensively, the Sixers again ruled the boards 46-39 and forced 16 turnovers including 7 steals. So it was another a+ plus effort for the Sixers, certainly deserving of their 8th win in a row but they came up just a little bit short. The Sixers actually had the early lead 22-16 after the first quarter. By the half they still led by 4 with the score 46-42. In the 3rd quarter Dallas rallied ahead by 11 with the score 74-63. Finally in the 4th quarter the Sixers put together a furious comeback tying it up at 93 with 8 seconds to play, only to watch Dirk Nowitzki swish in a 17 footer at the buzzer for a 95-93 Mavs win. So the Sixers drop back under .500 at 20-21 but remain 7th in the Eastern Conference.
PHILLIES NEWS
The Phils avoided arbritration with yet another key player today as they signed reliever Ryan Madson, "the Bridge to Lidge", to a 3 year deal.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
EAGLES NEWS
The Birds met the Cardinals this afternoon in the NFC championship game, just 60 minutes of good football away from the Super Bowl. Unfortunately it wasn't meant to be. The Eagles defense had no answer for Kurt Warner and Cardinals high powered offense, well at least not in the first half. It was a different story in the 2nd half with Donovan Mcnabb coming back to life to throw 3 TD passes en route to a 375 yard passing day, rallying the Eagles back ahead, but it wasn't enough. Other major contributors on offense for the Eagles included Desean Jackson with 6 catches for 92 yards and a TD, Brent Celek with an Eagles record 10 catches for 83 yards and 2 TDs, and Kevin Curtis with 4 catches for 122 yards. Defensively, it just wasn't the Eagles day, although they shut down the Cardinals offense for most of the 2nd, half Larry Fitzgeral had already shredded them for 3 TDs and over 100 yards receiving. Also after the Birds finally got the lead in the 4th quarter, they were not able to get that last defensive stop that they needed for the win. The Cardinals began the afternoon with a bang, as Warner capped off the opening drive of the game with TD pass number 1 to Fitzgerald. The Eagles answered with a field goal to cut it to 7-3, and then got in position for another field but David Akers missed from 47 yards out, giving Arizona good field position. The Cards than ran a little flea flicker on which Warner hit Fitzgerald for TD pass number 2 for a 14-3 lead. The Eagles answered with another field goal to cut it to 14-6. Then the Cards put together another drive capped off by Warner to Fitzgerald number 3 for a 21-6 lead. Finally Neil Rackers drilled a 49 yard field as time expired to give the Cards a 24-6 halftime lead. All seemed lost for the Eagles but they responded big time in the 2nd half. Mcnabb hit Celek to cap off consecutive TD drives late in the 3rd quarter cutting the lead to 24-19, as Akers missed an extra point on a bad hold. After another defensive stand relatively early in the 4th quarter Mcnabb hit Jackson with a 62 TD pass and suddenly the Eagles led 25-24. It seemed destiny was on their side after all, but after stopping the Cardinals on a 3rd and short on the ensuing drive, they couldn't stop them on 4th and short and the Cards were able to chew up clock and drive to the go ahead score with just under 3 minutes to play. So the stage was set, the Eagles trailed 32-25, with under 3 minutes to play, and needed Mcnabb to engineer one more TD drive to force overtime and keep the game live. After driving to their own 47 yard line the Birds stalled and on 4th and 10, the officials missed an obvious interference call on ex Eagle Roderick Hood, as Kevin Curtis dropped what would have been a first down. The Cardinals took over and were able to run the clock down but the Eagles defense held the and the Birds had one last shot from inside their own 20. They tried to lateral the ball the down the field but couldn't get far past the 20 yard line before the Cards took the ball away and eventually fell on it to end a heart breaker. So once again the Eagles come up empty and their wait for a championship will now balloon to at least 49 years and who knows perhaps they can get it to an even 50.
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