by gordie | Dec 11, 2017 | Uncategorized
Phil Jasner was a sportswriter of another time and place. Yet the things he represented – thoroughness, fairness, decency – are worth remembering, worth preserving. His son Andy, himself a sportswriter, has done just that in a collection of Phil’s work called “On the...
by gordie | Nov 4, 2017 | Uncategorized
Destiny pivots on a pinhead. The tiniest of things – actions and reactions, decisions and moments of indecision – gather together like the flapping of so many butterflies’ wings to build a hurricane, pushing one this way or that. That’s true of great civilizations,...
by gordie | Oct 8, 2017 | Uncategorized
Before Joel Embiid was cleared to play five-on-five last Friday – some eight months after he tore the meniscus in his left knee and some six months after surgery – video surfaced of him playing tennis and jogging the streets of Philadelphia, both late at night. If...
by gordie | Sep 15, 2017 | Uncategorized
The latest indication of the buzz surrounding the 76ers came earlier this week, when Brett Brown held a coaches clinic in the team’s year-old practice facility in Camden, N.J. This was a Tuesday night in September, remember, about five weeks before Brown’s team would...
by gordie | Sep 11, 2017 | Uncategorized
His career has come to be defined by numbers. By the 94-by-50-foot rectangle upon which he has plied his trade for 46 seasons, with a 47th fast approaching. By 930 victories, more than any other Division III men’s basketball coach has ever accumulated. In June, while...
