by gordie | Feb 27, 2026 | College Football, Journalism, Writing
We’re on a road to nowhere Come on inside Takin’ that ride to nowhere We’ll take that ride – The Talking Heads Way back when, somebody was writing about how you get to Penn State. Might have been Bill Conlin. Probably was Bill Conlin. Long before he...
by gordie | Feb 25, 2026 | NBA, Philadelphia 76ers, Writing
Label Luke Epplin however you please. He’s the dreamer from small-town Illinois who once came to New York City with two suitcases in hand, knowing if he could make it there, yada, yada, yada. He’s also the writer who went from fledgling poet/playwright to struggling...
by gordie | Feb 22, 2026 | MLB
Mike Sarbaugh began his career in professional baseball as an undrafted minor league infielder in 1989, in Helena, Mont. He has remained in the game ever since, and will remain at least one year longer. The Donegal graduate, who was not retained by the Mets as a coach...
by gordie | Jan 21, 2026 | College Basketball
Franklin & Marshall point guard Vakaris Grauslys hails from Vilnius, Lithuania, a place so unfamiliar to his teammates that they joke with him: Do they have cars there? Wifi? In point of fact Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, is home to over a half-million...
by gordie | Jan 12, 2026 | Uncategorized
Bob Weir died at age 78 Saturday, and CBS, in one of the network’s better decisions of late, re-released video of some of its recent interviews with the Grateful Dead co-founder and guitarist. Interviews in which Weir, as usual sporting abundant gray facial hair...
by gordie | Dec 27, 2025 | Journalism, Writing
Sunday marks another trip around the sun for me. That will be 68 of ‘em. One more than 67 (!), kids. Feel free to gazz out to your heart’s content. Anyway … Just for the sheer terror of it, I decided to look up the life expectancy for males in our great nation. And...
by gordie | Nov 23, 2025 | NFL
John Smith, a man with a common name and an uncommon tale, would like you to know that NFL kickers are not that much better than they were in his day, It is a sketchy premise from which to operate, seeing as somebody seems to nail a 60-yard field goal every other...
by gordie | Nov 14, 2025 | NBA
The way Wally Walker remembers it, he and the other members of the Seattle SuperSonics trudged into a Kansas City hotel room on Nov. 30, 1977, hours before a game against the host Kings, to meet their new coach. To say it was a dispirited group would be an...
by gordie | Nov 9, 2025 | College Football
While understanding that the mere invocation of Joe Paterno’s name elicits strong feelings on both sides of the equation, please remember that there were more than a few times when it was clear the late Penn State football coach knew what he was talking about. Exhibit...
by gordie | Nov 1, 2025 | High School Sports
Nobody rides the bench on a high school cross country team. There are no reserves, no backups, no scrubs. Everybody runs, in every dual meet. Everybody competes against the opponent, the clock, themselves. That said, you don’t have to be Steve Prefontaine to ascertain...
