Best deals for the rest of the Sixers season

The 76ers have lost 11 games in a row, sit 27 games below .500 and just traded away two starters for nothing. So, good seats are still available!

-- Orlando at Philadelphia, 2/26
** Second deck, center: $12.80 for a pair of tickets

-- Utah at Philadelphia, 3/8
** Three rows behind the basket: $59.20 for a ticket

-- Detroit at Philadelphia, 3/29
** Floor level, row 26: $43.60 for a pair of tickets

-- Charlotte at Philadelphia, 4/2
** Second deck, center: $120.40 for 14 tickets

Most painful Olympic results

Because all hundredths of a second are not measured equally...

Gold medal results

Men's 1500M skating, Koen Verweij places 2nd by 0.003 seconds
-- 105.009 seconds total time, 1/35,003th of the race

Men's 500M skating, Jan Smeekens places 2nd by 0.01 seconds
-- 69.32 seconds total time, 1/6,932th of the race

Women's 4x5KM cross country, Finland places 2nd by 0.5 seconds
-- 3183 seconds total time, 1/6,366th of the race

Women's Giant Slalom, Anna Fenninger places 2nd by 0.07 seconds
-- 156.94 seconds, 1/2,242nd of the race

Men's downhill, Christof Innerhofer places 2nd by 0.06 seconds
-- 126.29 seconds total time, 1/2,104th of the race

** The men's 15K mass start biathlon ended in a photo finish for gold. Although not an official time, Martin Fourcade appeared to finish 0.001 seconds behind the gold medal winner. The race took 2549.1 seconds, which would make his margin of defeat about 1/2,549,100th of the race.

No-medal results

Men's 2x15KM skiathalon, Russia places 4th by 0.1 seconds
-- 4096.9 seconds total time, 1/40,969th of the race

Two-Man bobsled, Russia places 4th by 0.03 seconds
-- 226.3 seconds total time, 1/7,543rd of the race

Women's skeleton, Katie Uhlaender places 4th by 0.04 seconds
-- 234.34 seconds total time, 1/5,589th of the race

Men's alpine skiing, Otmar Striedinger places 4th by 0.02 seconds
-- 78.69 seconds total time, 1/3,935th of the race

Men's 10KM biathlon, Anton Shipulin places 4th by 0.7 seconds
-- 1479.9 seconds total time, 1/2,114th of the race

Best names from the 2014 Olympics

Names that are too fun to say
-- Yumie Funayama (Japan, women's curling)
-- Byambadorji Bold (Mongolia, men's cross country)
-- Jenni Asserholt (Sweden, women's hockey)

Names that sound like they must mean something else

-- Havard Bokko (Norway, men's speed skating)
-- Karoly Gombos (Hungary, men's biathlon)
-- Anna Haag (Sweden, women's cross country)

Names that were changed just for the Olympics
-- Arielle Gold (USA, women's snowboard)
-- Gracie Gold (USA, women's figure skating)
-- Taylor Gold (USA, men's snowboard)

Names that sound like celebration cheers
-- Grete Gaim (Estonia, women's biathlon)

-- Beat Hefti (Switzerland, men's bobsled)

-- Tim Hug (Switzerland, men's nordic combined)

Names that should be even longer
-- Ida Ingemarsdotter (Sweden, women's cross country)
-- Thomas Hundertpfund (Austria, men's hockey)
-- Gerhard Unterluggauer (Austria, men's hockey)

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