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Full marks to the Arizona Cardinals. You don’t hear that very often, do you? But they deserve it for this tweet in the wake of Brian Urlacher’s announcing his retirement Wednesday: “You were who we thought you were.’’...

Earlier this week, the Lehigh Valley Conference held a breakfast get-together at Moravian College to salute its scholar-athletes in each sport for the soon-to-end school year. It's great to honor the best athletes and we do it all the time with our all-...

Two pitchers from two of the most memorable Phillies teams in the last 20 years will be honored during Alumni Weekend in August at Citizens Bank Park. Brad Lidge, one of the many heroes on the 2008 World Champion Phillies,......

As long as the thunderstorms stay away, the District 11 baseball tournament will be down to its final four in all four classifications after today. Here's my best guess at who will still be playing Friday in the three biggest......

San Fernando Valley teams have won 39 of the last 40 City Section Division I championships, but if Wednesday's opening playoff games were any indication, it's going to be an unpredictable two weeks ahead. L.A. Marshall eliminated defending champion El.......

The Southern Section has removed Shadow Hills from the Division 6 softball playoffs for holding an illegal batting practice before defeating Mary Star Tuesday. Mary Star has been reinstated to the playoffs and will play at Pomona Catholic in a......

MIAMI It doesn't take fancy formulas to determine Justin Ruggiano plays a pretty good center field. The metrics in Ruggiano's case confirm what the eyes see. Ruggiano entered Wednesday's series final against the Phillies leading the Marlins with seven...

For the past 31 years, the old Big East Conference staged its men's basketball tournament at Madison Square Garden. For the past 10 years, the conference held its women's tournament in Hartford's downtown arena. So for the administrators in the league...

SportsDirect Inc. Recap: Reds 7, Mets 4 Reds 7, Mets 4: Brandon Phillips drove in the go-ahead run with a check-swing double in the eighth as visiting Cincinnati completed a three-game sweep of New York. Phillips sent a grounder down the line off Bobby...

After playing his entire 13-year NFL career with the Bears, Brian Urlacher announced his retirement Wednesday. Boiling his career down to his five most memorable games is tricky, but here's what made our list.   Sept. 17, 2000: N.Y. Giants 14, Bears 7...

William and Mary went five years without appearing in the Colonial Athletic Association baseball tournament. What’s one more day of waiting? The Tribe, the CAA’s No. 2 seed, earned a first-day bye and begins play Thursday at the conference...

Elvis Dumervil had just settled in to meet the media after the Ravens' workout Wednesday when a voice rang out behind the semi-circle of TV cameras, tape recorders and notebooks. "What the hell, Elvis?!" Joe Flacco yelled in mock outrage. The Ravens'...