by gordie | Oct 23, 2025 | College Football
Freelance sportswriting being what it is in the 21st Century, I have worked for over 30 outlets since my last full-time gig in 2008 – and hope to add to that total before they pry my laptop from my cold, dead fingers. One of those outlets was ESPN.com, or at least a...
by gordie | Oct 9, 2025 | College Football
It’s homecoming this weekend at Penn State. Time to remember the good times. Time to look back. Yeah, not so much. The alums figure to be in a foul mood, given the football team’s struggles. And not even the scheduling of perennial Big Ten doormat Northwestern will...
by gordie | Aug 29, 2025 | NFL
When you fly into Green Bay, Wisconsin, you descend from 35,000 feet and land in 1967. Such is the aura of Packers history that you half-expect to be leveled by the block of Jerry Kramer or Fuzzy Thurston as you exit the jetway. The team plays in Lambeau Field, on...
by gordie | Aug 23, 2025 | Journalism, NBA
John Wall just retired, and Lee Corso is about to do so. My question: Were they good? They were significant – Corso, the college football analyst, more so than Wall, the NBA point guard. They were entertaining, I guess. But were they good? I admit to watching ESPN’s...
by gordie | Aug 3, 2025 | MLB
Having watched on TV as new Phillies closer Jhoan Duran made his electric entrance Friday night, I think that just once, I’d like to have my own walk-up music. Just once I’d like to stroll into whatever they’re calling the Sixers’ arena these days and as I head toward...
by gordie | Jul 28, 2025 | NFL
My cell phone sat atop a dresser in a cramped dorm room at Lehigh University, where I was covering Eagles training camp one July day in 2008. I was getting ready to go to dinner with Les Bowen, then of the Philadelphia Daily News, when it rang. What followed was the...
by gordie | Jun 25, 2025 | High School Sports
Dell Jackson, the founder and driving force of LLHoops.com, died a month ago. And when his obituary appeared, I was struck by how many things I didn’t know about him. He was from Wyalusing? Huh. He liked beekeeping? No way. He crafted stained glass? Whoa. None of that...
by gordie | Jun 24, 2025 | NBA
There is a runway now for the Oklahoma City Thunder, one that extends beyond the NBA championship they won Sunday night and into the foreseeable future. One that could enable them to build a mini-dynasty, to soar over a league weighed down by parity. The roster, led...
by gordie | Jun 22, 2025 | NBA
It hardly seems appropriate to discuss the made-up drama of a Game 7 shortly after American bombs have fallen in Iran, but here we are. At a time like this, I can’t help but think of the immortal words that appeared on the satirical website The Onion, shortly after...
by gordie | Jun 20, 2025 | NBA
The Oklahoma City Thunder holds the ultimate hole card – Game 7 at home in the NBA Finals – and that might be enough. But if we have learned nothing else from this series, it is this: Expect the unexpected. We began this exercise believing the 68-victory Thunder held...
