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Armen Gilliam, who was part of the UNLV Runnin’ Rebels basketball team that made a run to the Final Four in 1987 and played for several NBA teams, has died. He was 47. Gilliam died Tuesday night at the LA Fitness gym in Bridgeville while he was playing basketball.

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If you’re reading this particular post-mortem NBA Finals column to see if I am going to join the LeBron James lynch mob and to call him a selfish choker, you’re sadly mistaken. At the same time, I am not here to praise or defend him either.

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ormer New York Giants star Plaxico Burress was released from prison on Monday after spending nearly two years behind bars on a gun charge and headed to Florida to be with his family as he contemplates his chances of playing again in the NFL.

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Shaquille O’Neal, who struggled to get on the court for the Boston Celtics because of leg injuries, said on Twitter on Wednesday that he is going to retire after a 19-year career in which he won four NBA titles and the 2000 league Most Valuable Player award.

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After spending much of the season at Triple-A Lehigh-Valley, Phillies outfielder Domonic Brown is back with the big league ball club, looking to provide a much-needed spark for an anemic Phillies offensive that’s had trouble scoring runs.

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When the Los Angeles Lakers were eliminated by the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA’s Western Conference semi-finals, it likely signaled the end of the coaching career of Phil Jackson.

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Phillies manager Charlie Manuel had to look for a solid right-handed bat that could fill the speed/power/RBI void that Werth left either as a member of the starting lineup or off of the Phillies bench. John Mayberry Jr. is hoping to be that guy.

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In a recent study of graduation rates among the colleges and universities that participated in the 2011 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, Philadelphia’s Temple University men’s basketball team was cited as a school having a graduation rate at below 50 percent.

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Philadelphia lost a sports hero and ambassador for baseball when Stanley “Doc” Glenn, former catcher of the Negro League’s Philadelphia Stars died of natural causes last Saturday He was 84.

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Wake Forest junior Cheyenne Woods, whose uncle is all world golfer Tiger Woods, fired a superb bogey-free 3-under 68 on Sunday to seal her first ACC Individual Title. Woods finished the 54-hole event at 5-under par, which was seven shots better than Allie White of North Carolina.

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