The Daily Numbers - Jan. 4

The Daily Numbers: 0 points scored by the Eagles yesterday in their debacle of a loss in Dallas.
1 touchdown scored by the Eagles against the Cowboys defense in 2 games so far this year.
6 seed, where the Eagles find themselves in the NFL playoff pecking order, as opposed to No. 2, where they would have been with a win.
1 fatal shooting recorded already in 2010 in the county. Police in Chester say a 28-year-old man was shot at as he sat in a car on the 11 block of Kerlin Street. He later died.
70, age of woman whose body was found in the 1600 block of West Front Street Saturday. She is believed to have died of exposure.
24 degrees, the overnight low, which feels like single digits when you factor in wind gusts of up to 40 mph. It will continue through the middle of the week.
9 percent tax hike in the Newtown Township budget.
4.5 percent tax hike in Clifton Heights.
10,000 dollar reward for information in shooting of off-duty officer last Wednesday. His friend was killed in the robbery try.
17,000 dollars stolen from a state store employee as she tried to deposit the money at a bank in Philly. It’s the 2nd incident recently in which a state store worker was held up.
5 days, how long Gov. Ed Rendell is giving the state Legislature to deliver a bill approving table games before he moves to lay off state workers.
3 percent hike in tolls on the Pa. Turnpike that went into effect on Sunday.
1 person killed in fire in Philly over the weekend.
2 New Jersey state troopers injured when they were hit by a driver who resisted arrest.
45, age of woman in critical condition after she was hit in the head repeatedly with a hammer yesterday in North Philly. A man is under arrest.
1, number of black D.A.s in Philly history, after Seth Williams takes the oath this morning.
150 firefighters who responded to blaze that destroyed home of state Sen. Stewart Greenleaf in Montgomery County early Sunday. The senator and his family were home but escaped the blaze.
2 Philly police officers injured when their cruisers collided at an intersection in the Logan section Sunday night.
5 days, how long the Eagles have to wait before they get another shot at the Cowboys, Saturday night in Dallas.
100,621, how many people were jammed into Jerry Jones’ new stadium to watch yesterday’s Eagles-Dallas game.
17 points for Allen Iverson as the Sixers topped the Nuggets in Denver, 108-105.
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Call me a Phanatic: A look at the ups and downs of being a Philadelphia sports fan.Everybody who believes the Eagles are suddenly going to reverse their fortunes against the Cowboys and win this Saturday, raise your hands.
Thought so.
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I Don’t Get It: Allen Iverson decided to walk into the arena in Denver for last night’s Sixers-Nuggets game wearing a wool Dallas Cowboy’s hat.
I don’t get it.

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Today’s Upper: They say there are no do-overs in life. Not so for sports. The Eagles get another shot at the Cowboys, with even more on the line, in a Wild Card game Saturday night.

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Quote Box: “We all have to look at ourselves individually and make sure
this doesn’t happen again.”
- Eagles QB Donovan McNabb after Sunday’s debacle in Dallas.

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