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Avenging pizza delivery cops; an alleged murderer's apology; a farewell to a Philly TV icon; and more.

The 2008 Phillies were a surprising and welcome departure from the Philly sports norm. Let's face it: We've gotten used to coming up short—whether short or barely short. Not long after the Phillies paraded down Broad Street last Halloween, the Eagles returned the cosmos to their rightful balance. (Villanova's Final Four appearance was an unexpected bonus that threatened to upset the recently-restored natural order of things. Fortunately for the universe, North Carolina did not allow the end of days to come about.)

Hey, Mid-Morning Philly! We know your mind is probably a one way street down Broad here, so we'll hit up some other headlines quickly so you can get back to finishing all your work before 2:30 this afternoon.

The Inquirer reported on Saturday that Slovakian hockey player Scurko, a 23 year-old center who was a sixth-round draft pick for the Flyers in 2004, has confessed to killing a referee last year and burying the body in a forest. There's no word on a motive yet, but Scurko, whose team took the Slovak Ice Hockey League championship earlier this month, may serve as many as 20 years for the killing. He had never actually signed with the Flyers.

Okay, so the Flyers are still on the brink of elimination, but if they keep bringing hits like this, they might be able to do a good ol' fashioned comeback. (We've got to admit, we're more than a little disappointed that Crosby popped back up after this hit.)

So the Phillies are just getting spring training underway. The Sixers are hovering right around .500, but let's face it, they're dead in the water when it comes playoff time. So that means it's time to pay attention to the Flyers.

• Former CBS3 news anchor Larry Mendte was sentenced yesterday to six months of house confinement, along with three years of probation and a $5,000 fine for obsessively and illegally reading the e-mails of his former co-anchor, Alycia Lane. Lane also attended the sentencing.
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But clearly not Philadelphia's.

We recently posted about the promising state of the Philadelphia Flyers this season, but we never thought they would be this good.

Soon after the Flyers signed Briere, they were able to pull the trigger on another deal sitting on the table. Defenseman Joni Pitkanen and winger Geoff Sanderson were traded to the Edmonton Oilers for defenseman Jason Smith and center Joffrey Lupul. Pitkanen regressed last year, and didn't seem as if he would be able to find the focus needed to be a premiere player in Philadelphia. In return, the Flyers received Smith, a hard-hitting veteran blue-liner.

Hockey was gone for a year and a half, but you wouldn't know it judging from the first half of last night's opening game between the Philadelphia Flyers and the New York Rangers. Sure, a lot of the names and numbers were different, but the standard that we had gotten used to in Philadelphia over the pst 4 or 5 years pretty much held true: the Flyers were very good and the Rangers weren't (in other words, they sucked).

The Philadelphia Flyers return to the ice tonight, playing a nationally broadcast game to kick off the NHL's new season.

As the Flyers practice without the injured Peter Forsberg and the injured Derian Hatcher, we have to get our hockey fix in other fashions since Comcast Sportsnet inexplicably doesn't cover preseason hockey practices in HD.

ESPN is reporting that Peter Forsberg, former center for the Colorado Avalanche, has signed with the Philadelphia Flyers for 2 years and over $10 million dollars. The move will put the Flyers over the salary cap, thus reports are surfacing that the Flyers will deal center Jeremy Roenick, the team's highest paid player, to the Los Angeles Kings for draft picks. Roenick, you might recall, was outspoken during the lockout.