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The Phillies amicably avoided arbitration with one outfielder Friday and signed another who could bring speed to the bench.

Hunter Pence agreed to a one-year, $10.4 million contract for 2012, settling at the midpoint between salary figures the two sides submitted for a potential arbitration hearing. And Juan Pierre, a 12-year veteran, signed a minor-league contract with the Phillies for a chance to make the team in spring training.

Pence's signing was ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP)—Deron Williams had a reason to love this one.

Williams scored 34 points, including a go-ahead 3-pointer with 26.8 seconds left in overtime, to help lift the New Jersey Nets to a 97-90 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers on Wednesday night.

Kris Humphries had 13 points and a season-high 19 rebounds, and Jordan Farmer added 12 points as the Nets (6-13) snapped an eight-game losing streak against the Sixers. Anthony Morrow had 16 points ...

MANCHESTER, N.H. -- The Adirondack Phantoms discovered just how long every painful second of 2 minutes, 22 seconds is on Wednesday night.

Manchester scored three goals in that span during the second period to run away with a 5-1 win over the Phantoms at Verizon Wireless Arena.

If Adirondack had won, it would have tied Connecticut for first place in the Northeast Division. That prize will have to wait for another day, because Wednesday belonged to the ...

SUNRISE, Fla. (AP)—Claude Giroux’s minor adjustment gave the Philadelphia Flyers their first shootout victory of the season.

Giroux scored the only goal in the shootout and the Flyers beat the Florida Panthers 3-2 on Tuesday night.

The All-Star forward beat Scott Clemmensen on the stick side to give the Flyers their first shootout victory in four tries this season. He paused before he got to the crease and found an opening.

“I just wanted ...

FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Shortly after Sunday’s 6-5 shootout loss to the Boston Bruins, Scott Hartnell was asked whether he had made any plans for the All-Star break.

Hartnell paused for a second, then replied that he hadn’t made any definitive plans he couldn’t change if he got a call.

Well, the call finally came today, as the Flyers’ power forward was added to Sunday’s All-Star roster in Ottawa as an injury substitute.

Hartnell will ...

Scott Hartnell's natural hat trick against Boston earned him the second star of the week from the NHL on Monday.

It also capped a weekend during which Hartnell, the Flyers' leading goal scorer (25) scored five goals in just two games.

Pittsburgh's Evgeni Malkin was voted No. 1 star and Islanders goalie Evgeni Nabokov was voted No. 3 star.

Hartnell has 25 goals this season but was not selected to this weekend's All-Star Game in Ottawa. ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP)—Once it came down to a shootout, this was no contest.

Tyler Seguin scored the decisive goal against Ilya Bryzgalov in a shootout and Tim Thomas and the Boston Bruins beat the Philadelphia Flyers 6-5 on Sunday.

Thomas finally allowed a shootout goal after going 9 for 9, but he stopped Wayne Simmonds to end it.

Meanwhile, Bryzgalov has allowed goals on all five shots he’s faced in shootouts this season.

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Mike McKenna of Binghamton held off a furious Adirondack blitz in the third period and the Senators escaped with a 4-3 victory on Sunday evening at the Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena.

The Phantoms blasted away for 17 shots in the third period in their continued push to notch the tying goal but McKenna made one tremendous save after another for another victory against the Phantoms.

Jason Akeson wheeled at center-point with just one second remaining ...

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP)—Joe Paterno, the longtime Penn State coach who won more games than anyone in major college football but was fired amid a child sex abuse scandal that scarred his reputation for winning with integrity, died Sunday. He was 85.

His family released a statement Sunday morning to announce his death: “His loss leaves a void in our lives that will never be filled.”

“He died as he lived,” the statement said. “He fought hard until the end, ...