The Daily Numbers: 46,967 people packed into Citizens Bank Park yesterday for Winter Classic between Flyers and Rangers.
2 hours, 46 minutes, length of game. The memories will last a lifetime.
3-2 win for the Rangers. They now lead the Flyers by 4 points in the standings.
0 how much I care about the score or who won or lost yesterday’s game. It was a spectacle for the city and region. A Classic!
2:30, when Mr. Winter Classic Buttinsky, Jeff Lurie, will hold press conference to discuss future of Eagle and Andy Reid. Don’t be on much changing.
24, age of suspect charged in hit-run that left a 32 year-old Collingdale father of 2 in critical condition.
1 man shot outside Chester bar last night.
91, age of Penn State Brandywine founder John Vairo, who died on Jan. 1.
1.5 million shoelaces being collected by kids at Ridley Middle School as part of a charity project.
8 p.m. tonight, when Iowans go to their caucuses to cast votes in crucial GOP presidential race.
1 foot of snow expected in some parts of northwestern Pa. We are getting flurries.
11 minutes into the new year, how long it took Philly to record its first homicide of 2012.
120 more police officers on the streets promised by Mayor Michael Nutter as he was sworn in for 2nd term.
3 people killed in the city on New Year’s Day.
20 cars involved in pileup on I-80 in Jefferson County, Pa.
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Call me a Phanatic: A look at the ups and downs of being a Philadelphia sports fan.Now that was a Classic weekend. Kudos to the Flyers and NHL for a first-class event.
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I Don’t Get It: What is it with the sudden rash of incidents involving hit-and-runs. There was another one over the New Year’s Weekend.
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Today’s Upper: Kudos to the person who stepped up and gave police the information they needed to make an arrest in the Folcroft hit-run case.
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Quote Box: “The expectations were great and the game was awesome.”
- Havertown resident Paul Melniczek, on the Winter Classic.
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