by gordie | Mar 3, 2025 | NFL
Dear Eagles Fans: First of all, congrats on your Super Bowl victory. Speaking as a part-owner of the Green Bay Packers, I commend your team. I mean, two Vince Lombardi Trophies. Imagine that. Along the way, your team fended off mine in much the same way that your...
by gordie | Feb 18, 2025 | Journalism, NBA
There are those who claim age is just a number, but that seems reductive. Age adds and subtracts – adds some physical wear and tear, subtracts (if you’re lucky) the sharp edges that can make your younger years a rough go. It also multiplies and divides – multiplies...
by gordie | Feb 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
OK, so this evening we’ll have Say Say performing before Tay Tay. A cultural convergence, disguised as a football game. We’ve got the potentially dynastic Chiefs on one sideline, the nobody-loves-us Birds on the other. (“And we don’t care,” Jason Kelce, another...
by gordie | Jan 5, 2025 | College Football, Journalism
They tore down the Beaver Stadium pressbox Saturday morning (as shown in this video shot by Lions247 editor Mark Brennan), at least 25 years after they should have done so. And one of the better tales involving that rickety old structure was related to me several...
by gordie | Dec 23, 2024 | Journalism, NBA, Philadelphia 76ers, Writing
One night in October 2022, I was seated by myself at a table in the large banquet room of a local hotel when I felt someone’s hands around my neck. That was obviously unsettling in the extreme, not only because I had been approached from behind but because of the...
