Confessions of a Baseball Agnostic (and by the way, whatever became of Celerino Sanchez?)

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...

Some New Rules to Govern Sports Media (with Apologies to Bill Maher)

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’...

The Latest Curry Flurry Looms as the Signature Moment of His Career … and Another Instance When The Warriors’ Star Brought Us All Along for the Ride

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...

A Sad Yet Hopeful Sendoff for Andy Jasner: “Until We Meet Again”

by gordie | Aug 9, 2024 | Journalism, NBA

Some 450 people jammed into Congregation Ohev Shalom in Wallingford for Andy Jasner’s memorial service on Monday. Of course it was unspeakably sad, because Andy – son of Phil, the late, legendary Sixers beat writer and an accomplished sports journalist himself – died...

RIP to Andy Jasner, A Good Guy and a Good Hang … No Matter the Pressbox

by gordie | Aug 2, 2024 | NBA, Philadelphia 76ers

There’s a photo I adore that dates back to at least the 1980s. It shows the late Phil Jasner, then the Sixers’ beat writer for the Philadelphia Daily News, seated on a folding chair in the locker room at St. Joe’s, where the team practiced at the time. Phil, cradling...