After dozens of showings and 22 offers in one day, a Northeast Philadelphia rowhouse left the market after two days. The house was listed at $175,000 — a popular price point. The winning bidder will pay more than $210,000. Besides paying above asking p…
Sixers swingman Matisse Thybulle ruled ineligible to play road game against the Toronto Raptors
TORONTO — Asked back on March 31 if all of his players were fully vaccinated, 76ers coach Doc Rivers said: “I think you will figure it out eventually.” Well, eventually came Wednesday night when swingman Matisse Thybulle was listed as ineligible to pla…
Marcus Hayes: Lame-duck Phillies manager Joe Girardi has the hottest seat in baseball
TAMPA, Fla. — After a flurry of offseason activity, the Phillies have one more move to make: Pick up Joe Girardi’s option. The manager is entering the franchise’s most important season in a decade but the team has put him in a powerless position. Give …
2-year-old picks up gun and accidentally kills 4-year-old sister in Pennsylvania, police say
PHILADELPHIA — A 4-year-old girl was killed by her 2-year-old brother in an accidental shooting outside a Chester gas station Tuesday morning, police said. The child, whose name was not released, was found shot just before 11 a.m. inside a vehicle park…
Dawn Staley’s NCAA championship is a triumph beyond basketball
MINNEAPOLIS — All season long, South Carolina carried an air of dominance, almost to the point of inevitability. The Gamecocks were the No. 1 team in the nation from start to finish, 27-1 in the regular season before losing the SEC tournament final by …
David Murphy: Coach K’s legacy at Duke will long outlive the defeats, and the critics who envied his greatness
NEW ORLEANS — It came for him as it comes for all of us, that line of zeroes, sudden as a scream. The minutes became seconds, and the seconds became fractions, and then the void arrived. The most anybody can hope for is to see it coming. Now, here it w…
Marcus Hayes: God guides Phillies pitchers Aaron Nola, Kyle Gibson, and Zach Eflin
PHILADELPHIA — Number Two pitches with a rosary in his back pocket. Number Three broke his arm as a kid, lost baseball, but found himself. Number Four has a tattoo of praying hands on the outside of his left arm, a sacred memorial. Pitching is what Phi…
Sixers and Harden get back on track in 144-114 rout of Hornets
PHILADELPHIA — This was a nice bounce-back game for the 76ers. They followed up Thursday’s dismal performance against the Detroit Pistons with Saturday’s scintillating 144-114 victory over the Charlotte Hornets. The blowout win at the Wells Fargo Cente…
Conor Lamb says John Fetterman’s afraid to debate, calling shotgun incident ‘a huge problem’
PHILADELPHIA — U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb issued a direct attack Thursday against Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, signaling a clear shift in Pennsylvania’s Democratic primary for Senate as it enters the final stretch. Lamb accused Fetterman, the front-runner in the…
YouTube apologizes for yanking Pa. GOP governor forum video
PHILADELPHIA — The biggest news in the Republican primary for governor this week was Big Tech backing down when called out for censorship. YouTube has apologized for yanking the video of a forum last week for Republicans running for governor in Pennsyl…