by gordie | Aug 28, 2021 | Uncategorized
This is the second entry in my recollection of my favorite scenes in my favorite sports movies. In Part One we rehashed Bull Durham. Today, we contemplate why four passes — four! — is the precise number every basketball team should throw before shooting:...
by gordie | Aug 28, 2021 | Uncategorized
For the dwindling few of us who still channel-surf on our TVs, the courtroom scene in the 1992 movie A Few Good Men inevitably brings our remote controls to a full and complete stop. More than likely you know the scene. Tom Cruise, playing the part of Lt. Daniel...
by gordie | Aug 9, 2021 | High School Sports
It is hardly overstatement to say that Brice Brown is a hero, as he often represents the best hope for the football players he coaches at Edna Karr High School, in the rugged Algiers section of New Orleans. That he has also made them wildly successful on the field is...
by gordie | Aug 1, 2021 | NBA, NFL, Writing
Last Wednesday in Green Bay, Aaron Rodgers discussed with reporters the discontent that had made it appear during the offseason that the reigning NFL MVP was headed elsewhere. The following day, news broke about the Los Angeles Lakers trading for Russell Westbrook....
by gordie | Jul 25, 2021 | NBA
OK, so we lost to France — France! — in men’s hoops on Sunday at the Olympics, and there is dismay upon the land. I mean, this ain’t dressage; this is our game. What are we to do here in the land of (World B.) Free and (former) home of the (Buffalo)...
by gordie | Jul 17, 2021 | NBA
At a critical moment in Game Four of the NBA Finals Giannis Antetokounmpo was first one place, then another, and now the same can be said of his career. The Greek Freak’s block of Deandre Ayton’s dunk attempt with a little over a minute left Wednesday night preserved...
by gordie | Jul 11, 2021 | NBA, Philadelphia 76ers
Mikal Bridges’ 27-point outing for Phoenix in Game Two of the NBA Finals afforded us all one more opportunity to have a chuckle at the expense of the Sixers: Behold the team that stupidly traded a hometown hero on draft night three years ago, and received next to...
by gordie | Jun 18, 2021 | NBA, Philadelphia 76ers
Wednesday’s Sixers disaster brings to mind those of the past. Consider, for instance, the night of May 21, 1982, when they entertained Boston in Game Six of the Eastern Conference Finals. Philadelphia, holding a 3-2 series lead and looking to close things out, built a...
by gordie | Jun 14, 2021 | NBA, Philadelphia 76ers
Know this about championship basketball seasons: They are the ultimate group project, requiring something from just about everyone on the roster. There is no better example of that than Game Two of the Sixers-Hawks playoff series. The Sixers, who definitely harbor...
by gordie | May 23, 2021 | NBA, Philadelphia 76ers, Writing
Deep into a recent 40-minute telephone interview with former Sixers president Pat Croce, I raised the subject of death: How did he, as a 66-year-old cancer survivor, regard such a thing? “It doesn’t bother me,” he said. Well, of course. He has always been Mr....
