by gordie | Feb 18, 2025 | Journalism, NBA
There are those who claim age is just a number, but that seems reductive. Age adds and subtracts – adds some physical wear and tear, subtracts (if you’re lucky) the sharp edges that can make your younger years a rough go. It also multiplies and divides – multiplies...
by gordie | Feb 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
OK, so this evening we’ll have Say Say performing before Tay Tay. A cultural convergence, disguised as a football game. We’ve got the potentially dynastic Chiefs on one sideline, the nobody-loves-us Birds on the other. (“And we don’t care,” Jason Kelce, another...
by gordie | Jan 5, 2025 | College Football, Journalism
They tore down the Beaver Stadium pressbox Saturday morning (as shown in this video shot by Lions247 editor Mark Brennan), at least 25 years after they should have done so. And one of the better tales involving that rickety old structure was related to me several...
by gordie | Dec 23, 2024 | Journalism, NBA, Philadelphia 76ers, Writing
One night in October 2022, I was seated by myself at a table in the large banquet room of a local hotel when I felt someone’s hands around my neck. That was obviously unsettling in the extreme, not only because I had been approached from behind but because of the...
by gordie | Dec 1, 2024 | College Football
The question I keep asking myself in the wake of the Penn State-Maryland game is this: How much is enough? How many points are enough to satisfy the College Football Playoff committee? How many reps do backups need? And how much revenge is necessary (if in fact that...
by gordie | Oct 29, 2024 | College Football
James Franklin is in his 11th season as Penn State’s head football coach, and every one of them seems to unfold in similar fashion. Early on the Lions play The Teams They Will Beat – Bowling Green and Kent State this season, Delaware, Massachusetts, Ball State, Idaho...
by gordie | Oct 25, 2024 | MLB
Not to get all gooey on you, but for some reason I was thinking the other day about my first time in a major league baseball ballpark. Yankees-Angels, Aug. 26, 1968, in the old Yankee Stadium. Second game of a double-header. Future Phillies manager Jim Fregosi at...
by gordie | Oct 16, 2024 | Journalism, Writing
In the spirit of Bill Maher’s HBO show “Real Time,” here are some new rules that need to be enacted within the sports media world: New Rule No. 1: If coaches and players use their children as human shields, they should be required to always do so, no matter the kids’...
by gordie | Aug 13, 2024 | NBA
The public face of most NBA players (non-Tyrese Maxey Division) is one of studied nonchalance. Nothing can surprise them, concern them, bring them true joy. Theirs is an impenetrable facade, or so they would have you believe. Then Steph Curry explodes, and all bets...
by gordie | Aug 9, 2024 | Journalism, NBA
Some 450 people jammed into Congregation Ohev Shalom in Wallingford for Andy Jasner’s memorial service on Monday. Of course it was unspeakably sad, because Andy – son of Phil, the late, legendary Sixers beat writer and an accomplished sports journalist himself – died...
