by gordie | Jun 16, 2026 | NBA
New York City is what it is – imperious, intimidating, self-important. It is a place that is big and brash, loud and (way, way too) proud. Please, New Yorkers, tell us again why Derek Jeter should have gone not just to Cooperstown, but straight into heaven, to sitteth...
by gordie | Jun 9, 2026 | Uncategorized
Near as I can tell, the last time I ran the Red Rose Run before Saturday was in 2002. In between the clock kept ticking, same as it does on the course itself. There had been a job change, a layoff and several other U-turns and detours. And finally, blessedly,...
by gordie | May 31, 2026 | NBA
Thirty bailiffs work at the Lancaster County Courthouse, myself included. Thirty people, retirees mostly, doing the all-rise thing on a part-time basis, after doing something else most of their lives. So everyone has a backstory, and everyone has stories, period –...
by gordie | May 14, 2026 | NBA
Draymond Green sat in for Shaquille O’Neal on “Inside the NBA” one day last week, and besides making the show 20 percent better engaged in some verbal sparring with Charles Barkley. Barkley declared that the run by Green’s Golden State Warriors – “one of the greatest...
by gordie | May 11, 2026 | NBA, Philadelphia 76ers
So here we are again. Trade Joel Embiid. Trade Paul George. Trade everybody. And while you’re at it, fire Nick Nurse and Daryl Morey, too. In the minds of many, that’s how the Sixers can cleanse their palates after being embarrassed by the Knicks in the second round...