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Bad Omen? Every Time A Philadelphia Baseball Team Wins The World Series, There's A Severe Recession

The Houston Astros have a lot of haters following the team’s infamous cheating scandal that broke in 2019. But maybe, just maybe, the Astros are who we all should be rooting for in this year’s Fall Classic. Dating back to the early 20th century, every single time a Philadelphia baseball…

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Pa. gubernatorial candidate Josh Shapiro early on showed knack for networking, regimented messaging in politics

PHILADELPHIA — Looking back now, former U.S. Sen. Robert Torricelli said the amount of responsibility he gave the young legislative aide who was fresh off a college internship on Capitol Hill “seems ridiculous.”

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Philly’s new chief pathologist contends with understaffing, disorder and a troubled legacy at medical examiner’s office

PHILADELPHIA — Soon after starting her job, Philadelphia’s newest chief medical examiner was dismayed to learn some of the city’s dead arrived at her office in the back of a police car.

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Mike Sielski: The Phillies are in the World Series. Miles Teller and John Middleton remember what it was like. Do you?

PHILADELPHIA — Atop the celebratory stage quickly constructed on the Citizens Bank Park infield Sunday night, Rob Thomson clasped his hands behind his back, and several Phillies players rubbed the head of their closer-in-a-pinch, Ranger Suárez, and Bryce Harper cradled the trophy he had won, as the 2022 National League…

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Autism services for adults in Philly area still haven’t rebounded from COVID shutdowns

PHILADELPHIA -- When state officials approved Devon Geiger for the most comprehensive benefits Pennsylvania offers for adults with autism and intellectual disabilities, her mother, Deb Geiger, had peace of mind. She thought her daughter would get the services she needed.

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The Betsy Ross House offers plenty of horrors on its Halloween tours. And they’re all true

PHILADELPHIA — Halloween tales told at the Betsy Ross House have nothing to do with flag making — or even ghosts. There are no cheap scares amid the lantern light — no colonial-costumed ghouls emerge in the courtyard fog or surprise in the shadows of creaky rooms.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Can learning about ghosts help us cope with pandemic losses? A Penn professor says yes

PHILADELPHIA — Justin McDaniel, a professor of religious studies at the University of Pennsylvania, teaches a popular course called "Gods, Ghosts and Monsters," a comparative religion course about death and the afterlife. He's long been fascinated with ghost stories — and why they fascinate us.

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Steelers open as 10.5-point underdogs to Eagles

Pittsburgh is going to have its work cut out for them this week in Philadelphia.

USA Today Sports Media Group

NFL Expert Picks, Predictions, Lines: Week 8

NFL Expert Picks and Predictions for Week 8 of the season including Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, Green Bay at Buffalo, New York Giants at Seattle

USA Today Sports Media Group

Sixers beat Pacers for first win as James Harden scores 29

PHILADELPHIA — The pesky Indiana Pacers would not lay down, until James Harden sent Bennedict Mathurian to the floor.

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Bryce Harper will forever be a legend in Philadelphia after that dramatic home run

Bryce Harper will never have to pay for a drink in Philly again.

USA Today Sports Media Group

The Houston Astros and Philadelphia Phillies will face each other in the World Series

Major League Baseball has its World Series lineup cards set, as the Houston Astros will face the Philadelphia Phillies.

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Bryce Harper’s Legend Grows as He Sends the Phillies to the World Series

His pennant-clinching home run goes on the short list of greatest homers hit by the greatest of players.

Sports Illustrated

MLB World Reacts to Phillies Clinching World Series Berth

Somehow, Philadelphia went from firing their manager midseason to winning the National League pennant.

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9 awesome photos of Bryce Harper’s dramatic home run that sent the Phillies to the World Series

Bryce Harper will forever be a legend in Philadelphia after this home run.

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Bryce Harper’s homer lifts Phillies past Padres and on to the World Series

PHILADELPHIA — As Bryce Harper stepped to the plate in the eighth inning Sunday, a runner on base and the Phillies trailing by one run, Rhys Hoskins stood in the dugout and swayed, arms behind his back, occasionally bobbing up and down on his tiptoes, a 240-pound mass of nervous…

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Eagles players react on Twitter to the Phillies advancing to the World Series

Philadelphia Eagles players react on social media to the Phillies advancing to the World Series with a 4-1 #NLCS win over the San Diego Padres

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Bryce Harper Is Keeping His Promise to the Team of Destiny Phillies

Just four years into his 13-year contract, his dramatic home run Sunday brought a pennant back to Philadelphia. Next up: the Astros or the Yankees.

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Phillies come back twice to take commanding 3-1 lead over Padres in NLCS

PHILADELPHIA — Elation. Disaster.

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Sixers fall to 0-3, losing to Spurs despite 40-point effort from Joel Embiid

PHILADELPHIA — The 76ers had another unimpressive performance, and, surprisingly, another loss.

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Doug Mastriano adviser Jenna Ellis questions Josh Shapiro's faith — 'at best a secular Jew'

PHILADELPHIA — Jenna Ellis, the senior legal adviser to Doug Mastriano's Republican bid for Pennsylvania, serves in that role primarily to stir his deeply conservative base and to agitate controversy on social media.

France 24

Democrats in Pennsylvania take up the fight for abortion rights

In the battleground US state of Pennsylvania, Democrats hope that defending abortion rights will mobilise their electorate, especially women, and allow them to win votes in the November 8 midterm elections.

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Jenice Armstrong: The new Emmett Till movie is hard to watch. See it anyway, and take teens with you

PHILADELPHIA — Some movies are more important than others.

Sports Illustrated

Phillies Manager Rob Thomson Is Having One Heck of a Postseason

The 59-year-old rookie manager made all the right decisions as Philadelphia edged out the Padres for a critical NLCS Game 3 victory.

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Jean Segura’s Wild Ride Takes Phillies Closer to World Series

It was a dramatic performance from the second baseman full of ups and downs. But ultimately it was just enough for Philadelphia to take a series lead.

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