LeBron James’ Pleas For Respect Seem Unseemly, Until You Look Deeper

by gordie | Oct 13, 2020 | NBA

So this seemed a little odd: LeBron James, standing alongside his Lakers teammates and various other team personnel (including general manager Rob Pelinka, a Rob Lowe lookalike and former Fab Five adjunct) after the team closed out Miami to win the NBA title Sunday...

How Ken Shank’s 15 Minutes of Fame Have Lasted a Lifetime (with Help from Bill Bradley, and John McPhee)

by gordie | Sep 26, 2020 | College Basketball

Distinguished author John McPhee wrote “A Sense of Where You Are,” the definitive book about Bill Bradley’s Princeton basketball career, in 1965. It only seems like McPhee’s seminal work had been sitting on my shelf that long. A pandemic makes for strange...

Cal Ripken Jr., Remembered For One Big Moment, Was Really All About the Little Ones

by gordie | Sep 14, 2020 | MLB

When the Baltimore Orioles last won the World Series, all the way back in 1983, the decisive blows in their decisive Game Five victory over the Phillies were struck by their glowering first baseman, Eddie Murray. Murray homered twice that day off Charles Hudson...

Was Kyle Lowry’s Pass the Best in NBA Postseason History? Nah, that Honor Goes To Alex Hannum

by gordie | Sep 6, 2020 | Uncategorized

Dangerous and fruitless as it often is to speak in absolutes, the pass by Toronto guard Kyle Lowry to teammate OG Anunoby at the end of Game Three of the Raptors’ playoff series against Boston last Thursday night has to rank among the best in NBA postseason history....

Why, Pray Tell, Would Jay Wright Ever Want to Coach the Sixers?

by gordie | Aug 25, 2020 | Uncategorized

John Beilein can’t say he wasn’t warned. Last offseason he signed on to coach the lowly Cleveland Cavaliers, after a long, successful run as a college head man, highlighted by two NCAA championship-game berths in 12 seasons at the University of Michigan. He lasted 54...