by gordie | Jan 11, 2022 | College Basketball
Lee Melchionni left basketball behind a while back, having severed his player-agent ties to the game just over seven years ago and ending his on-court career well before that. Yet he still carries a good bit with him, even at age 37, even as he has settled into his...
by gordie | Dec 12, 2021 | College Football
A decade ago, a governmental agency deemed a young man’s life to be worth exactly $77,500. His name was Declan Sullivan, and he had literally been lost in the machinery of big-time college football one October day in 2010. Sullivan, then a 20-year-old student...
by gordie | Nov 23, 2021 | Journalism
The amusement park was somewhere in Florida. Orlando would be a good guess, because that’s where all the state’s amusement parks are, right? At any rate, that’s where I captured a snapshot years ago of Bill Fisher, then the sports editor of the Lancaster Sunday News...
by gordie | Oct 25, 2021 | NBA
The night of November 10, 1992, Bill Walton — raconteur, retired basketball star and renowned Deadhead (not necessarily in that order) — gave an address in Franklin & Marshall College’s Hensel Hall (now the Barshinger Center). It was followed by a...
by gordie | Oct 11, 2021 | NBA
One October day 60 years ago, a man named Tom Clausen happened to see Wilt Chamberlain emerge from a restaurant. Which is not surprising, given that Wilt was (shall we say) a man of enormous appetites. The greater surprise was that the restaurant was in Lititz. Wilt...
