by gordie | Feb 27, 2026 | College Football, Journalism, Writing
We’re on a road to nowhere Come on inside Takin’ that ride to nowhere We’ll take that ride – The Talking Heads Way back when, somebody was writing about how you get to Penn State. Might have been Bill Conlin. Probably was Bill Conlin. Long before he...
by gordie | Feb 25, 2026 | NBA, Philadelphia 76ers, Writing
Label Luke Epplin however you please. He’s the dreamer from small-town Illinois who once came to New York City with two suitcases in hand, knowing if he could make it there, yada, yada, yada. He’s also the writer who went from fledgling poet/playwright to struggling...
by gordie | Feb 22, 2026 | MLB
Mike Sarbaugh began his career in professional baseball as an undrafted minor league infielder in 1989, in Helena, Mont. He has remained in the game ever since, and will remain at least one year longer. The Donegal graduate, who was not retained by the Mets as a coach...
by gordie | Jan 21, 2026 | College Basketball
Franklin & Marshall point guard Vakaris Grauslys hails from Vilnius, Lithuania, a place so unfamiliar to his teammates that they joke with him: Do they have cars there? Wifi? In point of fact Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, is home to over a half-million...
by gordie | Jan 12, 2026 | Uncategorized
Bob Weir died at age 78 Saturday, and CBS, in one of the network’s better decisions of late, re-released video of some of its recent interviews with the Grateful Dead co-founder and guitarist. Interviews in which Weir, as usual sporting abundant gray facial hair...
