by gordie | Jan 8, 2018 | Uncategorized
The rumor has made the rounds through the years that San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich, an Air Force Academy graduate who received intelligence training back in the day, was once a spy. He seemingly put the kibosh to that talk in a 2013 Sports Illustrated profile...
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...
