by gordie | Dec 1, 2024 | College Football
The question I keep asking myself in the wake of the Penn State-Maryland game is this: How much is enough? How many points are enough to satisfy the College Football Playoff committee? How many reps do backups need? And how much revenge is necessary (if in fact that...
by gordie | Oct 29, 2024 | College Football
James Franklin is in his 11th season as Penn State’s head football coach, and every one of them seems to unfold in similar fashion. Early on the Lions play The Teams They Will Beat – Bowling Green and Kent State this season, Delaware, Massachusetts, Ball State, Idaho...
by gordie | Oct 25, 2024 | MLB
Not to get all gooey on you, but for some reason I was thinking the other day about my first time in a major league baseball ballpark. Yankees-Angels, Aug. 26, 1968, in the old Yankee Stadium. Second game of a double-header. Future Phillies manager Jim Fregosi at...
by gordie | Oct 16, 2024 | Journalism, Writing
In the spirit of Bill Maher’s HBO show “Real Time,” here are some new rules that need to be enacted within the sports media world: New Rule No. 1: If coaches and players use their children as human shields, they should be required to always do so, no matter the kids’...
by gordie | Aug 13, 2024 | NBA
The public face of most NBA players (non-Tyrese Maxey Division) is one of studied nonchalance. Nothing can surprise them, concern them, bring them true joy. Theirs is an impenetrable facade, or so they would have you believe. Then Steph Curry explodes, and all bets...
