by gordie | Jun 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
George Floyd’s dying words — “I can’t breathe” — have echoed across hundreds of protests, and across time. I can’t breathe — it was the very same thing another African-American man, Eric Garner, had said while being choked out by a police officer six...
by gordie | May 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
Michael Jordan’s actual last dance — the encore following the elegant waltz depicted in the just-completed “Last Dance” documentary — came not with championship glory as a Chicago Bull but with irrelevance as a Washington Wizard. And the final discordant...
by gordie | May 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
The email from Glenda, a deputy editor at Forbes.com, flitted into my inbox at precisely 8:31 a.m. on April 21. That’s right — Glenda the Deputy Editor (as opposed to Glenda the Good Witch, of Wizard of Oz fame) was writing to say we needed to talk over the...
by gordie | May 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
Unlikely as it may seem, the circle of life took a few backward revolutions when Tom Gilburg was out walking with his wife Joanne on Monday afternoon. If during his 81 years he has alternately been a football player and coach — as well as a husband, father and...
by gordie | Sep 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
Basketball, Dick Barnett said, was always his “mistress” growing up — his word. Wooed him to the playground the night of his senior prom. Served as his steady during a college career that featured more gym time than classroom time. The first time around, anyway....
by gordie | May 27, 2019 | Uncategorized
The classroom was at the end of a short, wide hallway, on the right-hand side. That much I remember. But was I in sixth grade or seventh? Was the teacher named Kline? Adams? Something else? A half-century has clouded my memory of that long-ago English class, and my...
