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...
by gordie | Sep 15, 2017 | Uncategorized
The latest indication of the buzz surrounding the 76ers came earlier this week, when Brett Brown held a coaches clinic in the team’s year-old practice facility in Camden, N.J. This was a Tuesday night in September, remember, about five weeks before Brown’s team would...
by gordie | Sep 11, 2017 | Uncategorized
His career has come to be defined by numbers. By the 94-by-50-foot rectangle upon which he has plied his trade for 46 seasons, with a 47th fast approaching. By 930 victories, more than any other Division III men’s basketball coach has ever accumulated. In June, while...
by gordie | Sep 2, 2017 | Uncategorized
As wrenching as others might have found the video coming out of Houston this week, it was just a little more so to Donnie Marsh. And as touching as others might have found some of the humanitarian gestures made in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, they hit far closer to...
by gordie | Aug 12, 2017 | Uncategorized
Early Wednesday afternoon Lyle Krall’s green SUV (vanity plate: “BASBALL”) was parked alongside Elco’s baseball field – a field that bears his name – and he was shuffling about the place, well aware how important it is for an 84-year-old to be up and moving. It’s hard...
by gordie | Aug 2, 2017 | Uncategorized
While Philadelphia sports fans have drawn their share of criticism over the years – and let’s face it, not without reason – it’s hard to envision a more shameful chapter in fandom than the treatment of one Steve Bartman by a certain segment of Chicago Cubs followers....
