by gordie | Jul 28, 2025 | NFL
My cell phone sat atop a dresser in a cramped dorm room at Lehigh University, where I was covering Eagles training camp one July day in 2008. I was getting ready to go to dinner with Les Bowen, then of the Philadelphia Daily News, when it rang. What followed was the...
by gordie | Jun 25, 2025 | High School Sports
Dell Jackson, the founder and driving force of LLHoops.com, died a month ago. And when his obituary appeared, I was struck by how many things I didn’t know about him. He was from Wyalusing? Huh. He liked beekeeping? No way. He crafted stained glass? Whoa. None of that...
by gordie | Jun 24, 2025 | NBA
There is a runway now for the Oklahoma City Thunder, one that extends beyond the NBA championship they won Sunday night and into the foreseeable future. One that could enable them to build a mini-dynasty, to soar over a league weighed down by parity. The roster, led...
by gordie | Jun 22, 2025 | NBA
It hardly seems appropriate to discuss the made-up drama of a Game 7 shortly after American bombs have fallen in Iran, but here we are. At a time like this, I can’t help but think of the immortal words that appeared on the satirical website The Onion, shortly after...
by gordie | Jun 20, 2025 | NBA
The Oklahoma City Thunder holds the ultimate hole card – Game 7 at home in the NBA Finals – and that might be enough. But if we have learned nothing else from this series, it is this: Expect the unexpected. We began this exercise believing the 68-victory Thunder held...
