by gordie | Feb 27, 2026 | College Football, Journalism, Writing
We’re on a road to nowhere Come on inside Takin’ that ride to nowhere We’ll take that ride – The Talking Heads Way back when, somebody was writing about how you get to Penn State. Might have been Bill Conlin. Probably was Bill Conlin. Long before he...
by gordie | Dec 27, 2025 | Journalism, Writing
Sunday marks another trip around the sun for me. That will be 68 of ‘em. One more than 67 (!), kids. Feel free to gazz out to your heart’s content. Anyway … Just for the sheer terror of it, I decided to look up the life expectancy for males in our great nation. And...
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 | 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 | 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...
by gordie | Dec 23, 2024 | Journalism, NBA, Philadelphia 76ers, Writing
One night in October 2022, I was seated by myself at a table in the large banquet room of a local hotel when I felt someone’s hands around my neck. That was obviously unsettling in the extreme, not only because I had been approached from behind but because of the...
