It’s Philadelphia Flyers day at PHT

The year of the Ghost.

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DeMarre Carroll lives with, plays through liver disease; working to spread awareness

A year before he was drafted into the NBA, DeMarre Carroll thought his NBA dreams were dead. He was diagnosed with a rare liver disease, something he opened up to Jared Zwerling of the NBPA about. It was July 2008, and DeMarre Carroll, then a rising senior at Missouri, started having an itching feeling all […]

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Phelps 'honored' to be U.S. Olympic flag-bearer

Michael Phelps will have the honor of carrying the U.S. flag on Friday as he competes at his fifth Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

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Rio Olympics: $10 million sprint -- cashing in on gold

What is the true value of an Olympic gold medal?

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USA will win gold, here are five other men’s hoop teams that could medal in Rio

The USA is going to win the gold medal in men’s basketball in Rio. (And in women’s basketball, where we may be even a bigger favorite. But that’s another post.) There is no need to couch that statement — short of the ship Team USA is staying on in Rio’s port sinking, there is no […]

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Battle of the sexes: sport's unequal language

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Novak Djokovic chases elusive Olympic gold medal

Can Djokovic win Olympic gold in Rio after Stanislas Wawrinka announced he will miss the Olympics due to injury, leaving just five of the world's top-10 men competing for the title?

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