by gordie | Jan 11, 2022 | College Basketball
Lee Melchionni left basketball behind a while back, having severed his player-agent ties to the game just over seven years ago and ending his on-court career well before that. Yet he still carries a good bit with him, even at age 37, even as he has settled into his...
by gordie | Dec 12, 2021 | College Football
A decade ago, a governmental agency deemed a young man’s life to be worth exactly $77,500. His name was Declan Sullivan, and he had literally been lost in the machinery of big-time college football one October day in 2010. Sullivan, then a 20-year-old student...
by gordie | Nov 23, 2021 | Journalism
The amusement park was somewhere in Florida. Orlando would be a good guess, because that’s where all the state’s amusement parks are, right? At any rate, that’s where I captured a snapshot years ago of Bill Fisher, then the sports editor of the Lancaster Sunday News...
by gordie | Oct 25, 2021 | NBA
The night of November 10, 1992, Bill Walton — raconteur, retired basketball star and renowned Deadhead (not necessarily in that order) — gave an address in Franklin & Marshall College’s Hensel Hall (now the Barshinger Center). It was followed by a...
by gordie | Oct 11, 2021 | NBA
One October day 60 years ago, a man named Tom Clausen happened to see Wilt Chamberlain emerge from a restaurant. Which is not surprising, given that Wilt was (shall we say) a man of enormous appetites. The greater surprise was that the restaurant was in Lititz. Wilt...
by gordie | Sep 26, 2021 | NBA, Philadelphia 76ers
Brett Brown, walking by himself in the Maine woods when he was reached by phone last Friday afternoon, pronounced himself “slightly beneath outstanding.” “Just a little bit,” the 76ers’ former coach said. “Just a sliver.” A slivah, in Brown’s distinctive New...
by gordie | Sep 15, 2021 | Writing
We have been advised over the years that it is best to compartmentalize when it comes to those involved in the arts — that while it is makes sense to savor that which an actor or author (or, let’s face it, even an athlete) produces, it is unwise to go too far in...
by gordie | Aug 31, 2021 | Uncategorized
This is the fifth and final entry in my recollection of my favorite scenes in my favorite sports movies, following Bull Durham, Hoosiers, Rocky and White Men Can’t Jump. Today we consider a great movie gone bad, much like the characters within it. Eight Men Out...
by gordie | Aug 31, 2021 | Uncategorized
This is the fourth entry in my recollection of my favorite scenes in my favorite sports movies, following, Bull Durham, Hoosiers and Rocky. Today we’re just gonna leave it up there as we visit the playgrounds of Southern California. White Men Can’t Jump (1992) The...
by gordie | Aug 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
This is the third entry in my recollection of my favorite scenes in my favorite sports movies, following Bull Durham and Hoosiers. Today we ponder whether you can in fact look up the spelling of “Del Rio” in the dictionary. Rocky (1976) The Choice: The obvious...
