by gordie | Jan 21, 2026 | College Basketball
Franklin & Marshall point guard Vakaris Grauslys hails from Vilnius, Lithuania, a place so unfamiliar to his teammates that they joke with him: Do they have cars there? Wifi? In point of fact Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, is home to over a half-million...
by gordie | Jan 12, 2026 | Uncategorized
Bob Weir died at age 78 Saturday, and CBS, in one of the network’s better decisions of late, re-released video of some of its recent interviews with the Grateful Dead co-founder and guitarist. Interviews in which Weir, as usual sporting abundant gray facial hair...
by gordie | Dec 27, 2025 | Journalism, Writing
Sunday marks another trip around the sun for me. That will be 68 of ‘em. One more than 67 (!), kids. Feel free to gazz out to your heart’s content. Anyway … Just for the sheer terror of it, I decided to look up the life expectancy for males in our great nation. And...
by gordie | Nov 23, 2025 | NFL
John Smith, a man with a common name and an uncommon tale, would like you to know that NFL kickers are not that much better than they were in his day, It is a sketchy premise from which to operate, seeing as somebody seems to nail a 60-yard field goal every other...
by gordie | Nov 14, 2025 | NBA
The way Wally Walker remembers it, he and the other members of the Seattle SuperSonics trudged into a Kansas City hotel room on Nov. 30, 1977, hours before a game against the host Kings, to meet their new coach. To say it was a dispirited group would be an...
