We’ve had some amazing athletes grace our city in the last 25 years. Some of the greatest to ever play their game have suited up and thrilled the fans of Philadelphia. We’ve seen the likes of Charles Barkley, Tim Kerr, Ron Hextall, Randall Cunningham, Reggie White, Eric Lindros, Allen Iverson, and Donovan McNabb. With one more Phillies win, Chase Utley and Co. will be remembered as bigger legends than any of them. Nothing against those......

Eliot Spitzer was a tireless crusader for the cause of cleaning up Wall Street corruption. He also was a sex-crazed fiend who would spend the gross per capita of the average Third World country on a blow job. O.J. Simpson was one of the greatest running backs in the history of both college and professional football. He also enjoyed wasting away his spare time by nearly decapitating people who pissed him off. Barack Obama may......

Philadelphia, let's start acting like real basketball fans. For those who don't know, we'll point it out: the Sixers currently hold the seventh place spot in the Eastern Conference. They’ve won 10 of their last 13 games. With 21 games left to play before the season goes post-style, the Sixers are playing good basketball, and are on their way to the playoffs. Yes, it might seem a little premature to say the word that should......

Governor Rendell has proclaimed January 11, 2008 “Sister Rosetta Tharpe Day” in the State of Pennsylvania. There will be a benefit concert to honor the gospel music legend that night at the Keswick. (Via Bob) You can catch a film profile of Allen Iverson by rapper Nelly tonight at 10:30PM on IFC. The Inquirer has a short interview with A.I. about the project. "A federal judge refused yesterday to release on bail the five men......

Please welcome to the ranks of the Phillyist staff Mr. Chris Zakorchemny, who'll be helping us fill in the gaps in our sports coverage this summer. Chris found us (and we found him) through Flickr. Yay, sports! Yay, Flickr! Where’s Pat Croce when you need him? Per usual, the 76ers are without luck, and ended up with the twelfth pick in the 2007 NBA draft. But before we start to feel like the Sixers should......

Someone should tell the news directors at ABC 6 and NBC 10 that the possibility of a thug basketballer being traded is not the story you should lead your newscast with, as they did Friday at 11 p.m. It isn’t like there weren't more important stories, like the E. coli outbreak or the congressional report on the Mark Foley scandal. About the only thing this did was make CBS 3’s story about the cold......

Yes, you read the headline right -- it was a pretty good night for Philadelphia basketball in the NBA Draft. Not as good as it could have been, but at the moment, we aren't complaining. The 76ers came into the night with one pick, the 13th in the first round. They used it to select Thabo Sefolosha, a swingman who ESPN analysts touted as a very good choice. But while the talking heads were raving......

If you were planning on going deer hunting in Pennsylvania this autumn with your atlatl...first of all, we think you're a little crazy. And second of all, it's looking like you'll be out of luck, as a proposal to allow the use of the Stone Age weapon (which "consists of a wooden pole about two feet long that, when wielded like a lacrosse stick, releases a spear about six to seven feet long") has......

It's been a while since any of the Sixers got in legal trouble, so I guess we're due: forward Lee Nailon remains in prison in Lower Merion right now on charges that he assaulted his wife. Arraignment on the simple assault and harrassment charges is expected today. No one is saying much of anything - not the team or Nailon's attorney. The story is that police were called to Nailon's home yesterday afternoon after Nailon......

As you may have heard, the local pro football team has fallen upon some tough times of late. An absurd, surreal contract dispute, the quarterback's myriad physical ailments, the head coach's puzzling play calls, and a defense that somehow forgot how to be nasty have all combined to produce an Eagles squad that is, one season after advancing to the Super Bowl, in serious danger of missing the playoffs altogether. Any day now we're expecting......

When the Sixers started their year with a dismal 0 - 3 record, we promised ourselves that we wouldn't get too down on them. After all, they lost only 3 games in their long, arduous 82-game schedule. Now that the tables have turned, we have to promise ourselves that we won't get too excited about this Sixers team, which won their fifth straight game tonight against the winless Toronto Raptors, 104 - 92. The Sixers......

It's not that we don't like watching Allen Iverson play. The guy is an absolute warrior - wants to play hurt, wants to play when the Sixers are up, wants to play when the game's close, wants to play when they're getting hammered. Time and time again, he gets knocked to the court, and you just wait for him not to get up, because he's not the burliest guard in the league, after all, but......

We've passed the era where we'd start new blog posts with something along the lines of, "If you haven't noticed, everyone has a blog now." Cause let's face it, everyone has two blogs now. Except, well, the 76ers. But they do have one. 76ers television personality Marc Zumoff is following (yeah, the headline is wrong, he's not stalking anyone) Allen Iverson throughout the star's promotional Reebok tour in Asia. It's sort of like that blog......

The Sixers, in the wake of re-signing free agents Kyle Korver and Willie Green, finally sealed the deal with their top priority, center Samuel Dalembert. The six-year deal will reportedly pay Dalembert something in the range of $60 to $80 million dollars. Dalembert is regarded by many as a project still in the works, but one that has already paid great dividends. Dalembert still needs to work hard on his offensive game, but on the......