by gordie | Jan 21, 2026 | College Basketball
Franklin & Marshall point guard Vakaris Grauslys hails from Vilnius, Lithuania, a place so unfamiliar to his teammates that they joke with him: Do they have cars there? Wifi? In point of fact Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, is home to over a half-million...
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 | Aug 27, 2022 | College Basketball, High School Sports
There was reportedly a murder in January at California’s High Desert State Prison. And another in February. And another in July. There was also reportedly a riot there in April. “It can be dangerous, but I don’t look at it that way,” Dennis Hurd said recently over the...
by gordie | Mar 5, 2022 | College Basketball
In the spring of 1975, Matt Brown was deep into his senior year at York Catholic High School and considering places where he might continue his basketball career. Villanova was recruiting him, he recalled over the phone the other day. Seton Hall, VMI and St. Peter’s,...
by gordie | Feb 26, 2022 | College Basketball
Glenn Stitzel admits to being blissfully unaware during one of the signature moments of his basketball career at Millersville University (then Millersville State College) over a half-century ago. Some context is in order, though. Playing for a team that ran...
by gordie | Feb 21, 2022 | College Basketball
Clearly Riiny Giir, a basketball player of some promise, needs to add weight, needs to carry more than the 185 pounds he currently carries on his 6-8 frame. But if Giir is carrying any additional burdens from all he has experienced in 20 years of life, he seems to...
