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For us here at Phillyist, the images of one particular cold Tuesday night at the Palestra a few months ago are still seared on our memory. When the halftime buzzer sounded in the annual Holy War clash between Saint Joseph's and Villanova, the Hawks held a stunning 12-point lead over the then-No. 4-ranked Wildcats. The sellout crowd was in a state of shock -- the blue half almost silent, the red half delirious.

by Jonathan Tannenwald

The most interesting facet about the Phillies' just-concluded search for a new general manager isn't that they hired a proven winner who had built three other franchises into playoff teams and was the architect of the fantastic Blue Jays squads of the early '90s, squads that won a pair of World Series.