by gordie | Jun 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
Major League Baseball’s death knell has been sounding for a while, and now it is louder than ever, as the owners and players resume their familiar dance. In other years these billionaires and millionaires have squabbled over such things as free agent compensation and...
by gordie | Jun 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
George Floyd’s dying words — “I can’t breathe” — have echoed across hundreds of protests, and across time. I can’t breathe — it was the very same thing another African-American man, Eric Garner, had said while being choked out by a police officer six...
by gordie | May 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
Michael Jordan’s actual last dance — the encore following the elegant waltz depicted in the just-completed “Last Dance” documentary — came not with championship glory as a Chicago Bull but with irrelevance as a Washington Wizard. And the final discordant...
by gordie | May 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
The email from Glenda, a deputy editor at Forbes.com, flitted into my inbox at precisely 8:31 a.m. on April 21. That’s right — Glenda the Deputy Editor (as opposed to Glenda the Good Witch, of Wizard of Oz fame) was writing to say we needed to talk over the...
by gordie | May 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
Unlikely as it may seem, the circle of life took a few backward revolutions when Tom Gilburg was out walking with his wife Joanne on Monday afternoon. If during his 81 years he has alternately been a football player and coach — as well as a husband, father and...
