by gordie | Jan 11, 2022 | College Basketball
Lee Melchionni left basketball behind a while back, having severed his player-agent ties to the game just over seven years ago and ending his on-court career well before that. Yet he still carries a good bit with him, even at age 37, even as he has settled into his...
by gordie | Apr 4, 2021 | College Basketball
The knee-jerk thing for a geezer like myself to say after Saturday’s Gonzaga-UCLA classic is that great as it was, it still doesn’t quite measure up to the 1992 Duke-Kentucky regional final. Gotta maintain perspective when it comes to a discussion of college...
by gordie | Mar 26, 2021 | College Basketball, MLB, Writing
On March 16, 2019, the East Stroudsburg University men’s basketball team lost an NCAA Division II first-round game to West Liberty, 106-99 in overtime. The silver lining for the Warriors that night at IUP was considerable, however: Freshman center Ryan Smith had...
by gordie | Jan 31, 2021 | College Basketball
John Chaney’s death on Friday at age 89 reminded me that I have held onto a cassette tape of a telephone interview I did with him in July 1999, when he was 17 years into his 24-year run as the men’s basketball coach at Temple. Took some rooting around to find it, but...
by gordie | Sep 26, 2020 | College Basketball
Distinguished author John McPhee wrote “A Sense of Where You Are,” the definitive book about Bill Bradley’s Princeton basketball career, in 1965. It only seems like McPhee’s seminal work had been sitting on my shelf that long. A pandemic makes for strange...
