by gordie | May 14, 2025 | NBA
The Sixers earned the third pick in the June 25 NBA draft courtesy of Monday’s lottery, and that’s, I guess, good (?). Good because a scan of recent No. 3 picks shows a lot of stars, and few duds. Bad because they are, ya know, the Sixers. The years pass. The...
by gordie | May 10, 2025 | NBA
Several hours before a Sixers-Warriors game in early March, Jerry Stackhouse sat astride the court in what was then known as the Wells Fargo Center and waxed poetic about Draymond Green. Good Draymond, that is. Stackhouse, who began his playing career in 1995 as a...
by gordie | May 6, 2025 | NBA
Behold the streak shooter, who can at once be the most uplifting and confounding of basketball players, a guy capable of taking his team to untold heights and relegating it to the deepest depths. There are only two spigots with such a guy – one spewing lava, the other...
by gordie | May 3, 2025 | NBA
One of the truly glamorous aspects of sportswriting is standing in the middle of a professional team’s locker room, watching guys changing their clothes. They don’t want you there. You don’t want to be there. But you have to be, so you can be one of many to interview...
by gordie | May 1, 2025 | NBA
“Inside the NBA” remains the best watch in sports television, even though – let’s face it – the show’s principals have precious little inside information to share. (And in fact don’t even seem interested in watching the games that appear on their air. Ever notice how...
by gordie | Apr 28, 2025 | NBA
An NBA officiating crew blew a critical call at the end of a playoff game Sunday – you’re shocked, I’m sure – and the result was a “my bad” and … and … AND? Well, nothing. Maybe the crew in question, led by David Guthrie, will be barred from doing games for a time....
by gordie | Mar 3, 2025 | NFL
Dear Eagles Fans: First of all, congrats on your Super Bowl victory. Speaking as a part-owner of the Green Bay Packers, I commend your team. I mean, two Vince Lombardi Trophies. Imagine that. Along the way, your team fended off mine in much the same way that your...
by gordie | Feb 18, 2025 | Journalism, NBA
There are those who claim age is just a number, but that seems reductive. Age adds and subtracts – adds some physical wear and tear, subtracts (if you’re lucky) the sharp edges that can make your younger years a rough go. It also multiplies and divides – multiplies...
by gordie | Feb 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
OK, so this evening we’ll have Say Say performing before Tay Tay. A cultural convergence, disguised as a football game. We’ve got the potentially dynastic Chiefs on one sideline, the nobody-loves-us Birds on the other. (“And we don’t care,” Jason Kelce, another...
by gordie | Jan 5, 2025 | College Football, Journalism
They tore down the Beaver Stadium pressbox Saturday morning (as shown in this video shot by Lions247 editor Mark Brennan), at least 25 years after they should have done so. And one of the better tales involving that rickety old structure was related to me several...
