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Meet the Sixers Player Who Refuses to Take Airplanes

This summer, the Sixers’ new GM Sam Hinkie traded for a promising, versatile, fascinating 22-year-old power forward named Royce White. Last season, White played for […]

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Eight Philadelphia Athletes Who Said “F— You, Fans”

University of Nebraska football coach Bo Pelini is under fire this week after a nearly 2-year-old audio recording of him bashing the team’s fans surfaced. […]

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Sixers Owner Josh Harris Makes It Onto Forbes “400 Richest” List

The Sixers may be the least successful of Philly’s four pro sports teams over the past 10 years, but their newish majority owner, Josh Harris, […]

Property

Kobe Bryant’s “Mediterranean” Estate, With Hair Salon and Shark Tank, Is on Sale for $8.6M

Curbed National, via Curbed LA, reports that former local boy Kobe Bryant has put this home up for sale for about $8.6 million. There’s no […]

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Iverson and McNabb: A Tale of Two Retirements

The tale of two retirements speaks volumes about Philadelphia and our relationship with our sports stars. Allen Iverson is finally calling it quits after running […]

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Gary Payton Takes Credit for Iverson’s “Practice” Rant

Via Philly.com, Donovan McNabb and Gary Payton weigh in on Allen Iverson’s impending retirement. And Payton, in particular, gives the backstory behind Iverson’s famous “practice” […]

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Allen Iverson Set to Retire From NBA…Really Soon

Ever since his mozzarella stick-heavy trip to Turkey, it’s kind of a foregone conclusion that Allen Iverson’s NBA days are over. But he hasn’t officially […]

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It Seems an NBA Player Threw a Very Debaucherous Pool Party in Bucks County

21-year-old Cleveland Cavs point guard and Philly native Dion Waiters is said to have thrown a massive party on August 11th at a pool in […]

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The List: 5 Philly Sports Promotion Fails

To get fans pumped for the upcoming season, the Philadelphia Flyers invited fans to the Wells Fargo Center today to … watch paint dry. The […]

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WATCH: Short Film on Wilt Chamberlain’s Weird First Job

ESPN’s 30 for 30 documentary series has released a short film on Wilt Chamberlain’s first job, as a bellhop at Kutsher’s Country Club, a Jewish […]

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3 Reasons Not to Hate the Sixers’ Owner for Buying the Devils

For a team that’s supposedly irrelevant in this town, the Philadelphia 76ers sure have made a lot of news the last couple of months. Philly’s […]

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Roy Rubin, Who Coached Worst-Ever 76ers Team, Is Dead

Fox Sports reports: Roy Rubin, the coach of one of the most memorable teams in NBA history, died of cancer on Aug. 5 at the […]

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The List: 5 Terrible Philadelphia Sports Contracts, Chase Utley Edition

With Chase Utley close to signing an extension for the Phillies, a contract for two years and — wait for it — $27 million, many […]

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The Sixers Still Don’t Have a Coach. Has Anybody Noticed?

We’re occasionally surprised to discover that people root for/care about/are aware of the existence of the Philadelphia 76ers—the number of free tickets we’ve been offered […]

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One of These Two Men Will Be the New Coach of the 76ers

Drum roll, please…. Meet the next head coach of the Philadelphia 76ers…Brett Brown or Michaelllllll Curry! (Sorry, didn’t mean to get you too excited.) Brown […]