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NBA players rejected the league’s latest offer Monday and began disbanding the union, likely jeopardizing the season. “We’re prepared to file this antitrust action against the NBA,” union executive director Billy Hunter said. “That’s the best situation where players can get their due process.”

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NBC worked feverishly to spread the word about Bob Costas’ exclusive interview with former assistant Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky, who is accused of sexually assaulting boys, even as the two men were still on the phone together.

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I’ve always thought that it was silly to have a fictional character to represent the city’s toughness when you had the real thing in one “Smokin'” Joe Frazier. If anybody embodied heart and soul of this city in the ring, it was Frazier, who died earlier this week of liver cancer.

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Dallas Cowboys defensive coordinator Rob Ryan will need a few antacids along with a couple of stiff drinks with a slice of humble pie when he reviews film of how Michael Vick, LeSean McCoy and the Eagles offense carved up his defense before a national television audience.

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It will be hard to imagine the Phillies without Jimmy Rollins in red-pin stripes patrolling shortstop at Citizen’s Bank Park. That’s a concept Rollins himself can barely come to grips with.

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If there is any conclusion that you can come to with the Eagles 20-13 victory over the Washington Redskins is that they not only have a pulse, but they still have a legitimate shot, even at 2-4, at winning the NFC East. Huh? Did I really say that?

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In the end, the scene looked straight out of an ultimate Broadway encore. One and two owners on the stage turned into seven, eight, nine, all single file and holding enough personalized 76ers jerseys to fill a few racks at the merchandise store.

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The week of Oct. 2 to Oct. 9—which included two-game slide of the Eagles, part of a four-game losing streak, and the Phillies unceremonious exit from the Major League Baseball playoffs, represent arguably one of the most miserable weeks to be a Philadelphia sports fans in the city’s storied sports history.

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Suffice it to say that after three straight weeks of blowing fourth quarter leads, the 1-3 Philadelphia Eagles are in desperate need of a win before their season spirals into the abyss.

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After venting his spleen about the lack of roughing the passer penalties he gets, Michael Vick took a day or two to calm down from getting knocked around by the New York Giants defense last weekend. Vick, who is expecting to start on Sunday against San Francisco despite a bruised hand, backed off his comments…

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