WYOMISSING, Pa. — A roller-coaster Pennsylvania campaign season careened toward a breathless finish Saturday as candidates raced to firehouses, diners, public parks, and an indoor rally, making a final push in some of the country’s most critical races….
Trump endorses Doug Mastriano in the Pa. governor’s race, a late boost for the far-right front-runner
PHILADELPHIA — Former President Donald Trump endorsed State Sen. Doug Mastriano in Pennsylvania’s Republican primary for governor, announcing his support for the front-runner just days before Tuesday’s election. The endorsement could very well put him …
David Murphy: Joel Embiid says the Sixers need tougher players like P.J. Tucker. They also need more of it from James Harden.
PHILADELPHIA — What now? The question had been swirling for weeks, two little words bubbling beneath the red-white-and-blue crust of the Sixers’ latest strategic pivot. They did what they could to make you ignore it, to fool yourself into thinking that…
Sixers’ Danny Green suffered ACL and LCL tears when Joel Embiid fell on his knee in Game 6
PHILADELPHIA — Danny Green was in good spirits on Friday, one day after the 76ers swingman suffered ACL and LCL tears in left knee in the opening minutes of a Game 6 loss to the Miami Heat in the Eastern Conference semifinals. Green suffered the injury…
Joel Embiid refuses to dwell on postseason injuries, but admits the Sixers must get tougher after another second-round exit
PHILADELPHIA — Joel Embiid wrapped close friend Jimmy Butler into a hug near the 76ers’ bench before walking off the court late Thursday, the physical representation of one All-Star and his team moving on to the Eastern Conference finals and the other …
About half the US population will likely miss out on the lunar eclipse Sunday night
PHILADELPHIA — Clouds and showers are poised to spoil not only another weekend in the Eastern United States, they are likely to ruin one of the year’s most anticipated astronomical events — a total lunar eclipse Sunday night into early Monday. During t…
Film experts from ‘The Micheaux Mission’ podcast pick the summer’s best movies
PHILADELPHIA — Two men. One podcast. Every Black movie. That’s the tag line for Philadelphia-based movie buffs’ Len Webb and Vincent Williams’ popular podcast, “The Micheaux Mission.” Named after Oscar Micheaux, the early 20th century Black indie scree…
David Murphy: Lay off Joel Embiid. The rest of the Sixers need to pull their weight in Game 6.
MIAMI — Sometimes, two simple words can capture an idea so completely that they become a permanent part of our lexicon. Carpe Diem. Love Endures. It’s Whatever. That last one might not yet be eligible for enshrinement, but Joel Embiid made his best cas…
Philly’s COVID cases are up since the mask mandate ended. Did the city make the right call?
PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia’s COVID-19 case counts have steadily risen since the end of the city’s indoor mask mandate, but hospitalizations and deaths have not followed suit, a striking change to a pandemic-long pattern of infections leading to seriou…
Flyers’ Oskar Lindblom reflects on his 2019 cancer diagnosis, recovery and goal to ‘feel like myself again’
When Flyers winger Oskar Lindblom underwent chemotherapy in 2020 to treat Ewing’s sarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer, he never doubted that he would come out the other side and be able to have a long, healthy NHL career. Naturally, however, he had a l…