by gordie | Oct 16, 2024 | Journalism, Writing
In the spirit of Bill Maher’s HBO show “Real Time,” here are some new rules that need to be enacted within the sports media world: New Rule No. 1: If coaches and players use their children as human shields, they should be required to always do so, no matter the kids’...
by gordie | Aug 9, 2024 | Journalism, NBA
Some 450 people jammed into Congregation Ohev Shalom in Wallingford for Andy Jasner’s memorial service on Monday. Of course it was unspeakably sad, because Andy – son of Phil, the late, legendary Sixers beat writer and an accomplished sports journalist himself – died...
by gordie | Nov 18, 2023 | Journalism
Many years ago I received a phone call from a high school basketball coach who claimed that while he was quoted in a game story that appeared in a publication competing with mine, the sportswriter covering the game never interviewed him. “I mean, it sounded like...
by gordie | Oct 21, 2023 | Journalism
Some 40 years after the fact, I can still remember the substance of the note, if not the exact wording. It was written out on paper – no email or online reader comments then – and came from Ron Lauretti, whose son Scott was a Carlisle High School football player....
by gordie | Nov 23, 2021 | Journalism
The amusement park was somewhere in Florida. Orlando would be a good guess, because that’s where all the state’s amusement parks are, right? At any rate, that’s where I captured a snapshot years ago of Bill Fisher, then the sports editor of the Lancaster Sunday News...
