by gordie | Aug 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
The woman, a minister by trade, was standoffish: What were we doing in the graveyard adjacent to her church? Five of us stood there that day in the spring of 2022 – myself, my wife and another couple, as well as a tour guide, who tried to talk the woman down. They...
by gordie | Aug 4, 2023 | MLB
Orioles closer Felix Bautista stands 6-8, weighs 285 and routinely throws 100. Dubbed “The Mountain,” he looks like Shaq when he’s out there on the mound, or at least an NFL edge rusher. (And dare it be said that he’s now on the short list of great mountains, along...
by gordie | Jul 5, 2023 | MLB
Decades before Ted Lasso hung that iconic sign over his office door, another Hollywood venture into the sporting world taught us the value of belief. Again and again in Bull Durham, director Ron Shelton’s 1988 ode to minor league baseball, the characters invest...
by gordie | Jun 4, 2023 | NBA
Tyler Smith once played basketball at Penn State, and as a pro seemingly everywhere else. Gives him a wider worldview, one that is particularly valuable now, given the fact that a certain crew-cutted Serbian has turned the NBA playoffs into his own personal showcase....
by gordie | May 13, 2023 | NBA
Well, the Golden State Warriors were fun while they lasted. But Friday night’s series-deciding loss to the Lakers in the Western Conference semifinals feels like a crossroads moment. In a basketball sense, it feels like the Day the Music Died. A pity, because for the...
by gordie | May 12, 2023 | NBA
The mind goes back 41 years ago to another Sixers-Celtics Game Six, on another May night in another Philadelphia arena – the Spectrum, which used to sit across the parking lot from the Sixers’ current home, the Wells Fargo Center, but now is a parking lot. Then, as...
by gordie | May 8, 2023 | NBA
The Philadelphia 76ers continue to ride the James Harden Rollercoaster, a white-knuckle situation if ever there were one. The Boston Celtics appear to believe that time can be made to stand still. It is altogether fitting and proper, then, that an Eastern Conference...
by gordie | Apr 20, 2023 | NBA
While the popularity of posters has undoubtedly plummeted since the heydays of Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jordan and George “Ice Man” Gervin, posterization very much remains a thing, as was shown again Monday night, when Brooklyn’s Cam Johnson jammed on Joel Embiid late...
by gordie | Apr 1, 2023 | College Basketball, NBA
With the college basketball season nearing its culmination, I sat down earlier this week and churned out 1,318 words about how much better the NBA game is than the college game … in months other than March. Mentioned how much more talented pro players are (duh). Threw...
by gordie | Mar 16, 2023 | High School Sports
The yellow school bus, No. 40, departed from the rear of Reading’s Geigle Complex at 9:35 Wednesday night, destination Landisville. It carried members of the Hempfield boys’ basketball team, their season having ended a little while earlier in an alley fight of a PIAA...
