by gordie | Mar 26, 2021 | College Basketball, MLB, Writing
On March 16, 2019, the East Stroudsburg University men’s basketball team lost an NCAA Division II first-round game to West Liberty, 106-99 in overtime. The silver lining for the Warriors that night at IUP was considerable, however: Freshman center Ryan Smith had...
by gordie | Mar 14, 2021 | NBA, Philadelphia 76ers
The way Michele (Telfair) Ramsey remembers it, there were two ways for a junior-high-aged girl to stand out in Canyon, Texas in the late 1970s — either become a cheerleader, or a basketball player. She was neither, but set out to become the latter. It was a...
by gordie | Feb 22, 2021 | NBA, Philadelphia 76ers
Charles Barkley turned 58 on Saturday, and I couldn’t help but think of something Jim Lynam, Barkley’s last coach with the Sixers, once told me about the Chuckster. “He’s a Hall of Fame player, so people have to appreciate it, but he’s special among that group,” Lynam...
by gordie | Feb 16, 2021 | High School Sports
Among other things, Leon “Buddy” Glover was known for walking everywhere — for lacing up his trademark black hightop Chucks and venturing out from his Green Street home in Lancaster. Didn’t matter how far he had to go. Didn’t matter if someone offered a ride....
by gordie | Jan 31, 2021 | College Basketball
John Chaney’s death on Friday at age 89 reminded me that I have held onto a cassette tape of a telephone interview I did with him in July 1999, when he was 17 years into his 24-year run as the men’s basketball coach at Temple. Took some rooting around to find it, but...
