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Feds seize $60,000 in fake sports merchandise

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Published June 9, 2010 at 10:22 a.m.

Federal authorities in Philadelphia say they have seized nearly $60,000 worth of counterfeit sports merchandise, most of it NHL gear, since the Flyers began their post-season run for the Stanley Cup ...

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Flyers Looking To Ground The Blackhawks In Game 6

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Published June 9, 2010 at 8:44 a.m.

Scrubbed and polished, the Stanley Cup will be in the arena for Game 6.The Philadelphia Flyers hope it will stay in its case ...

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Daily News Online Extra: For Flyers, already the greatest comeback in city's history

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Published May 13, 2010 at 12:07 p.m.

The Flyers have survived more elimination games in the last week (three) than the Phillies have in the last 28 seasons (two). Just to put this into a little bit of perspective. Whatever happens from here, this is already the greatest post-season comeback in Philadelphia sports history ...

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Fans pick 2008 World Series as top Philadelphia sports moment

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Published May 7, 2010 at 1:10 p.m.

ONE THING THAT quickly became clear to Ryan Howard when he came to Philadelphia was how starved the city was for a championship. It had been decades. Philadelphia had not won a championship since Julius Erving led the Sixers to one in 1983 and it had been 3 years before that since the Phillies had won the only one in their dismal history. The Flyers had gone even longer since their back-to-back Stanley Cups in 1973-74 and 1974-75. The Eagles? The 1960 NFL title was their last ...

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Daily News writers split on Flyers' outcome vs. Bruins

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Published April 30, 2010 at 11:03 a.m.

Ed BarkowitzTuukka Rask may not be a household name in Philadelphia, but it sure is in Buffalo. The Bruins goaltender outplayed Buffalo's Ryan Miller and is the primary reason Boston won that series in six games ...

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Flyers throw Philly's hat in ring for All-Star Game

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Published Feb. 9, 2010 at 3:30 p.m.

NHL commissioner Gary Bettman had two special visitors yesterday in New York.That's because the Flyers, on behalf of Comcast-Spectacor, sent Rocky Balboa and Ben Franklin impersonators to league headquarters to hand out soft pretzels and officially throw Philadelphia's hat in the ring to host the 2012 or 2013 All-Star Game and entry draft. The rest of the NHL's event applications arrived in FedEx boxes ...

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Ailing Haitians become Flyers' guests

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Published Feb. 11, 2010 at 9:52 a.m.

NEWARK, N.J. - While most Flyers fans who planned a trip up the New Jersey Turnpike were stuck in Philadelphia, a group of brand-new fans joined the team at the Prudential Center from an even farther distance: Haiti ...

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With Kovalchuk trade, Devils-Flyers home-and-home series just got more interesting

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Published Feb. 5, 2010 at 12:05 p.m.

After nearly 5 months and perhaps thousands of phone calls and text messages, the Ilya Kovalchuk sweepstakes are over.Not surprisingly, Kovalchuk is not a Philadelphia Flyer ...

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Time with Flyers left permanent mark on Umberger

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Published Jan. 20, 2010 at 8:32 a.m.

R.J. UMBERGER'S story sounds like a beer commercial gone wrong.Feeling safe after four seasons in Philadelphia, including one with the Phantoms, Umberger got a Flyers logo tattooed on his leg ...

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Flyers' Richards critiques the media

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Published Jan. 18, 2010 at 8:23 a.m.

WASHINGTON - Mike Richards has made it clear that he loves playing in Philadelphia.He made it more clear during a heated exchange with reporters yesterday in the doorway of the Flyers' locker room at the Verizon Center that he just doesn't like the media coverage of the Flyers in Philadelphia ...

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