by gordie | Oct 22, 2022 | NBA
Game point, Sixers down one. Final seconds melting away. James Harden with the ball in his hands, Jrue Holiday in a defensive stance. Such a delicious matchup, on so many levels. Harden is an elite scorer, Holiday an elite defender – “the head of our snake on...
by gordie | Aug 27, 2022 | College Basketball, High School Sports
There was reportedly a murder in January at California’s High Desert State Prison. And another in February. And another in July. There was also reportedly a riot there in April. “It can be dangerous, but I don’t look at it that way,” Dennis Hurd said recently over the...
by gordie | Aug 18, 2022 | NFL
Let the record show that even at age 10, Ray Didinger did his homework. Of course he did, just as he would years later, during his half-century covering pro football as a writer and broadcaster. So renowned for his tireless research that his retirement cake earlier...
by gordie | Aug 8, 2022 | NBA
In 1987, Bill Russell was not quite 20 years removed from his dominant days with the Boston Celtics when he embarked on an ill-fated 58-game run as coach of the Sacramento Kings. Sports Illustrated’s Jack McCallum came calling just as the season was getting under way,...
by gordie | Jun 20, 2022 | NBA
Pigeonholing Stephen Curry as a point guard seems foolhardy, a matter of placing limits on a basketball player who refuses to be limited, whether by his program height, the geometry of a game played on a 94-by-50-foot rectangle, 75 years of NBA history or, really,...
