by gordie | Jul 5, 2023 | MLB
Decades before Ted Lasso hung that iconic sign over his office door, another Hollywood venture into the sporting world taught us the value of belief. Again and again in Bull Durham, director Ron Shelton’s 1988 ode to minor league baseball, the characters invest...
by gordie | Jun 4, 2023 | NBA
Tyler Smith once played basketball at Penn State, and as a pro seemingly everywhere else. Gives him a wider worldview, one that is particularly valuable now, given the fact that a certain crew-cutted Serbian has turned the NBA playoffs into his own personal showcase....
by gordie | May 13, 2023 | NBA
Well, the Golden State Warriors were fun while they lasted. But Friday night’s series-deciding loss to the Lakers in the Western Conference semifinals feels like a crossroads moment. In a basketball sense, it feels like the Day the Music Died. A pity, because for the...
by gordie | May 12, 2023 | NBA
The mind goes back 41 years ago to another Sixers-Celtics Game Six, on another May night in another Philadelphia arena – the Spectrum, which used to sit across the parking lot from the Sixers’ current home, the Wells Fargo Center, but now is a parking lot. Then, as...
by gordie | May 8, 2023 | NBA
The Philadelphia 76ers continue to ride the James Harden Rollercoaster, a white-knuckle situation if ever there were one. The Boston Celtics appear to believe that time can be made to stand still. It is altogether fitting and proper, then, that an Eastern Conference...
