by gordie | Feb 14, 2018 | Uncategorized
Any self-respecting media type entering the locker room of a pro basketball team knows the drill: You speak to the stars out of obligation, the lesser lights out of interest. An Everyman – a guy like Tyler Smith, for instance — is more relatable, more...
by gordie | Feb 6, 2018 | Uncategorized
It has been a Monday like no other. A Monday when so many in Philadelphia (and well beyond) awakened with a literal hangover, flush with the knowledge that the figurative one has finally – finally — subsided. For the first time in their tortured history, the...
by gordie | Jan 8, 2018 | Uncategorized
The rumor has made the rounds through the years that San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich, an Air Force Academy graduate who received intelligence training back in the day, was once a spy. He seemingly put the kibosh to that talk in a 2013 Sports Illustrated profile...
by gordie | Dec 11, 2017 | Uncategorized
Phil Jasner was a sportswriter of another time and place. Yet the things he represented – thoroughness, fairness, decency – are worth remembering, worth preserving. His son Andy, himself a sportswriter, has done just that in a collection of Phil’s work called “On the...
by gordie | Nov 4, 2017 | Uncategorized
Destiny pivots on a pinhead. The tiniest of things – actions and reactions, decisions and moments of indecision – gather together like the flapping of so many butterflies’ wings to build a hurricane, pushing one this way or that. That’s true of great civilizations,...
by gordie | Oct 8, 2017 | Uncategorized
Before Joel Embiid was cleared to play five-on-five last Friday – some eight months after he tore the meniscus in his left knee and some six months after surgery – video surfaced of him playing tennis and jogging the streets of Philadelphia, both late at night. If...
