Topic: NBA Eastern Conference
JANUARY Jan. 1 Sixty-six New Year's revelers die and more than 200 are injured in a fire at a Bangkok nightclub. Longtime Rhode Island Sen. Claiborne Pell, creator of Pell Grants, dies at 90. Jan. 5 New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson withdraws his nomination to be commerce secretary. Jan. 8 Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine becomes chairman of Democratic National ...
A partial list of those who attended Sen. Edward Kennedy's funeral in Boston on Saturday: ___ President Barack Obama First Lady Michelle Obama Vice President Joe Biden and wife Jill Biden Former President George W. Bush and wife Laura Bush Former President Bill Clinton Former ...
BAILOUTS FOR SPORTS FANS
As the economic crisis worsens, sports franchises are tweaking marketing pitches to go after a new sort of customer: Joe the Unemployed Plumber. There are some bittersweet deals out there. On Nov. 29 the NHL's St. Louis Blues staged the first of 11 "Fannie & Freddie Mortgage Saturdays." The fan winning a drawing held ...
Many baseball fans here would not speak the "P" word in the anxious days leading up to the city's World Series title, lest they jinx the team. But now that the Philadelphia Phillies have claimed their second championship, everyone is talking about a parade ...
No longer the loveable losers that last year became the first American sports franchise to lose 10,000 games, the Philadelphia Phillies can put away their symbols of futility. The Phillies captured their first World Series title in 28 years by beating the Tampa Bay Rays 4-3 on Wednesday, in the completion of the first suspended game in World Series ...
Tens of thousands of horn-honking, high-fiving Phillies fans streamed into the streets Wednesday night after Philadelphia won the World Series, celebrating the championship by knocking down traffic signals, spraying beer and shooting off fireworks. Fans raced through downtown on their way to Broad Street, this title-starved city's ...
Geoff Jenkins provided the spark with a leadoff double and Brad Lidge ended it with another perfect outing as Philadelphia beat Tampa Bay 4-3 Wednesday to clinch their first World Series title in 28 years. Pedro Feliz knocked in the go-ahead run in the seventh for Philadelphia who had to endure an unprecedented mid-game weather delay that lasted two days ...
PHILADELPHIA - Two days later, the Phillies finished the job.
The thrilling three-inning conclusion of the rain-delayed Game 5 of the World Series saw the home team take, then lose, then retake the lead before holding on to conquer the Rays 4-3.
Their sprint to the finish brought home the second world championship in the Phillies' 126-year history, and their first ...
The Philadelphia 76ers have moved the start of their National Basketball Association season-opener on Wednesday in deference to the weather-disrupted game five of the World Series. The Sixers said Tuesday they would move up the start their contest Wednesday against the Toronto Raptors from 7 pm to 6 pm (2200 GMT). Baseball's Philadelphia Phillies, who are one win away ...
