by gordie | Aug 13, 2026 | NBA
The Milwaukee Bucks of the 1980s are one of the NBA’s great forgotten teams. These were the Bucks of Sidney Moncrief, an all-around dynamo and deserving Hall of Famer (who nonetheless doesn’t get quite enough love). Also of great players like Marques Johnson and Terry...
by gordie | Jul 13, 2026 | College Basketball
Seated in his office recently, Tim Sweeney, the newly hired Franklin & Marshall men’s basketball coach, was talking about starting over. About patience and persistence and staying the course. In a roundabout way, that led to a discussion of Stephen Curry, a player...
by gordie | Jun 16, 2026 | NBA
New York City is what it is – imperious, intimidating, self-important. It is a place that is big and brash, loud and (way, way too) proud. Please, New Yorkers, tell us again why Derek Jeter should have gone not just to Cooperstown, but straight into heaven, to sitteth...
by gordie | Jun 9, 2026 | Uncategorized
Near as I can tell, the last time I ran the Red Rose Run before Saturday was in 2002. In between the clock kept ticking, same as it does on the course itself. There had been a job change, a layoff and several other U-turns and detours. And finally, blessedly,...
by gordie | May 31, 2026 | NBA
Thirty bailiffs work at the Lancaster County Courthouse, myself included. Thirty people, retirees mostly, doing the all-rise thing on a part-time basis, after doing something else most of their lives. So everyone has a backstory, and everyone has stories, period –...
by gordie | May 14, 2026 | NBA
Draymond Green sat in for Shaquille O’Neal on “Inside the NBA” one day last week, and besides making the show 20 percent better engaged in some verbal sparring with Charles Barkley. Barkley declared that the run by Green’s Golden State Warriors – “one of the greatest...
by gordie | May 11, 2026 | NBA, Philadelphia 76ers
So here we are again. Trade Joel Embiid. Trade Paul George. Trade everybody. And while you’re at it, fire Nick Nurse and Daryl Morey, too. In the minds of many, that’s how the Sixers can cleanse their palates after being embarrassed by the Knicks in the second round...
by gordie | Apr 21, 2026 | NFL
The NFL Draft begins Thursday, and the consensus is that Nolan Rucci will either be taken in the last round of the three-day, seven-round selection process, or scooped up by a team as an undrafted free agent. Whatever the case, Rucci, an offensive tackle from Warwick...
by gordie | Apr 1, 2026 | NBA
Anthony Edwards, the Minnesota Timberwolves’ best player (and indeed one of the finest players in the NBA), recently missed six games due to an inflamed knee, a potentially crippling blow for a team grappling for playoff seeding in the rugged Western Conference. The...
by gordie | Mar 27, 2026 | College Basketball, Journalism
To get to the media room within the Sixers’ arena on game night, you enter through the north side of the building a couple hours before tip-off, exchange how-ya-doins with the always-affable attendants at the security checkpoint, wade through the empty stands to court...
