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....
by gordie | Jul 28, 2017 | Uncategorized
In Ezra Edelman’s Academy Award-winning 2016 documentary, O.J.: Made in America, attorney Carl Douglas discusses O.J. Simpson’s 2008 conviction on armed robbery and kidnapping charges. And in doing so, he draws an analogy to high school football. Douglas, a member of...
by gordie | Jul 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
The photo below, from Fightonstate.com, confirms I was among the media members lurking about at Penn State’s Lift for Life last Saturday, where it was almost as impossible to avoid the optimism surrounding the upcoming season as it was the players engaged in one...
by gordie | Jul 12, 2017 | Uncategorized
In this most uplifting of 76ers’ offseasons, the biggest reason for pause is not the ankle sprain suffered by top overall pick Markelle Fultz in a summer-league game Saturday in Las Vegas. It doesn’t appear to be a big deal. Really, it doesn’t. Honest. Just keep that...
by gordie | Jun 22, 2017 | Uncategorized
I am embedded here at the Sixers’ practice facility in Camden, N.J. – though not in the (shudder) war room – for what is arguably the best non-event on the sports calendar: the NBA Draft. It is the best because it is shorter than the NFL selection process, while...
by gordie | Jun 17, 2017 | Uncategorized
Twitter exploded around dinnertime Friday night, as only Twitter can, with word of a proposed Celtics-Sixers trade that would allow Philadelphia to draft a 19-year-old point guard who led his college team to a 9-22 record in his only year on campus. Excited yet? OK, I...
