BPR at the Giant Center
Tomorrow, an annual tradition ignored more thoroughly than any other begins anew- I hang out at the Giant Center for a week watching District Three semifinal and championship basketball games. That’s...
View ArticleGiant Center: Monday
5 p.m. – AAAA girls semifinal, Manheim Twp. (27-0) v. Wilson (20-7) This matchup is a good example of the limits of District Three’s power-rating system, which is based on the enrollment class of a...
View ArticleGiant Center: Wednesday
Girls AAA Semifinals, Fleetwood-Susquehannock and Lancaster Catholic-West Perry; AA boys’ semifinals, Trinity-Columbia and Hanover-Delone. The Lancaster Catholic girls are just unique. Uniquely...
View ArticleLNP at the Blue-White game
An outline of our coverage of tomorrow’s edition of the annual intrasquad scrimmage: My 10 things to watch tomorrow is on the web site now and will be in Saturday morning’s paper. Gordie Jones,...
View ArticleNBA finals prediction
Two great teams, veteran teams with a place in their sport’s history already secure, will play for a championship starting tomorrow night. It feels like that happened all the time when you were a kid....
View ArticleSpurs in five …. who said that?
Yes, I have noticed the recognition of my NBA Finals pick (thanks, @gordonwjones and @chrisottolnp) on social media. I would like to also note that before the series, Michael Wilbon said the “only...
View ArticleU.S. Open post-mortem
PINEHURST, N.C. – U.S. (Men’s) Open post-mortem, or at look at last week’s big winners, losers and in-betweens: Martin Kaymer – Kaymer probably wasn’t really No. 1 in the world when he held the...
View ArticleMike Williams’ career W-L, revisited
After I wrote the column for Wednesday’s paper on MW’s career numbers, the following list came in from the intrepid Josh Funk of Pa. Football News. It’s the 20 winningest coaches in Pennsylvania...
View ArticleLive district hoops from the Giant Center: Monday
7:13 p.m. After two-plus hours of software fails (which are undeniably my fault), I am back to BPR for live stuff from the Giant Center. It’s early second half of game two, which is the Boys’ AAA semi...
View ArticleMarch Madness market breakdown, part two
Part two features my brackets, No. 1 and No. 2. You can follow along with both on ESPN’s tournament challenge. I usually do two every year, with some sort of thematic contrast between them. This year,...
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