Basketball
A Last-Second Interception Sent Penn to the Final Four. Six Days Later, It Faced Magic.
The two free throws gave Penn the lead. They did not give Penn the game.
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Seven Titles, One Ballroom: The SPHAS and Philadelphia’s Early Basketball
On Saturday nights at the Broadwood Hotel, basketball was only part of the evening. The Philadelphia SPHAS played in the ballroom; afterward, fans could stay to dance. The arrangement placed a professional team in the middle of a neighborhood social life, in a room that served more than one purpose.
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Hal Greer Stayed. In His Last Sixers Season, He Ended Up on the Bench.
By the time the Philadelphia 76ers finished with nine wins in 1972–73, Hal Greer had occupied almost every kind of place a player could hold in the franchise’s history. He had come with the team from Syracuse. He had been a star on its championship team. He had remained as other pieces of that team disappeared.
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The Fight, the Handshake and the Finals Portland Took Back
Before Game 3 of the 1977 NBA Finals, Maurice Lucas walked across the court to Darryl Dawkins and offered his hand.
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Before the Big 5 Was a Tradition, It Was a Plan for the Palestra
The Big 5 began with schedules, renovations and a modest crowd—not an instant tradition.