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Joining the esteemed ranks of Philadelphia boxing champions Joe Frazier and Bernard Hopkins is the newest world champion from the City of Brotherly Love, newly crowned WBC super lightweight titleholder Danny “Swift” Garcia. More >

The Eagles will open on the road in the midwest for the second year in a row, beginning their 2012 season with a ho-hum matchup Sept. 9 against the Browns in Cleveland. But things get intense pretty quickly. Six of their next seven games, beginning with the Sept. 16 home opener against the Ravens, are against teams that made the postseason in 2011. The only one that’s not requires a long road trip to Arizona to play the Cardinals in Week 3. More >

If only Roy Halladay and the Philadelphia Phillies had gotten this 1-0 win last October. Halladay was nearly flawless for eight innings Thursday and the Phillies showed off their pitching from the start, opening a new season by edging the Pittsburgh Pirates. More >

The city of Philadelphia must pay nearly $900,000 after a failed effort to evict the Boy Scouts of America because of the group’s ban on gays, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. More >

Scott Hartnell needed every last tick of the clock to score the timeliest of goals for the Flyers. Hartnell scored his second goal of the game with less than one second left in overtime to lift the Flyers to a 3-2 victory over the Penguins in Philadelphia Sunday, snapping Pittsburgh’s 11-game winning streak.

Hartnell took a nice cross-ice feed from Danny Briere to beat Marc-Andre Fleury with 0.9 seconds left on the clock.

First patient is Ryan Howard, the slugging first baseman of the Phillies. Howard traveled to Baltimore to see specialist Dr. Mark Myerson about a slight issue with his rehabbing Achilles tendon injury.   More >

Defensive tackle Cullen Jenkins has agreed to restructure his contract with the Philadelphia Eagles. Jenkins signed a $25 million, five-year deal last offseason and had 5.5 sacks, seven tackles for loss, and 61 total tackles in his first season with the team. More >

All of the talk surrounding the NBA is in regards to whether or not the Chicago Bulls are Miami Heat are the best team in the Eastern conference. More >

The Philadelphia Union have traded Sebastien Le Toux to the Vancouver Whitecaps in exchange for allocation money. Per MLS and club policies, the terms of Tuesday’s trade were not disclosed.

Le Toux was selected by the Union in the 2009 MLS expansion draft and quickly became the most productive offensive player on the team, scoring 14 goals with 11 assists in 2010. For his efforts, Le Toux was voted to the MLS Best XI and was named Philadelphia’s first All-Star selection. He started every match last season, scoring 11 goals with nine assists.

According to Director of Public Relations, Michael Preston, the Sixers have officially announced the signing of veteran big man, Francisco Elson.

With Spencer Hawes and Nikola Vucevic out with injury, and Marreese Speights shipped to Memphis earlier this season, the Sixers were in desperate need for a big man. Since Vooch went down with a leg injury against the Heat Tony Battie and Lavoy Allen have been receiving significant minutes in the front court, leaving the Sixers vulnerable on the glass, which explains the team’s abysmal rebounding numbers in Wednesday’s loss against the Nets.