by gordie | Feb 14, 2022 | NBA
On Sunday night, we were reminded anew of the value of sports franchises taking big swings, when the Los Angeles Rams beat the Cincinnati Bengals to win the Super Bowl. The victory came not quite 11 months after the Rams traded their previous starting quarterback,...
by gordie | Feb 7, 2022 | NBA
Free Ben Simmons. Please, please, please free Ben Simmons. What’s that? You say that Brooklyn Nets coach Steve Nash said Sunday that his team wasn’t going to trade veteran guard James Harden, the Sixers’ apparent target in a Simmons trade? And that ESPN’s Adrian...
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...
