Gheorghe: The Blog

Sports fans share a common visual vocabulary. There are iconic images that we recognize instantly. Neil Leifer's shot of Muhammad Ali st...

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The world has changed quite a bit since I started writing this post. In the span of a week - A FUCKING WEEK - we witnessed an assassination ...

Gheorghe will explain the radically changed Presidential election landscape in a future post, but in an effort to bide some time and avoid h...

During the course of his recent podcast trilogy about William Shakespeare (which, by the way, is really excellent - I had no idea, for exam...

At the request of the site’s benevolent curator, I pondered competitive connections with primo athletes and relationships with illustrious f...

File Under: things you don't need explained to you.  30 years is quite a long time. Like, really long. A generation-plus for humans. Th...

It is de rigueur for American footie fans to weigh in on the search for the next USMNT manager, and we're nothing if not rigueurous, so ...

Mark sent me a text last week about a kid he played pickup hoops with getting an invite to the Sixers' summer league squad, which led me...

I have no fewer than three post concepts in the works, and I think you'll quite enjoy them. At the same time, I have a fuckton of intere...

It’s a safe bet that mostly monks and scholars would consider the life and writings of ruminator extraordinaire Henry David Thoreau a breezy...

Several of your favorite Gheorghies (and Dave) are in a group chat solely dedicated to sharing daily results of various online quiz games we...

Been an exciting few weeks in the reflected glory department, as several athletes from my home county (and that of Marls) did cool stuff on ...

There has been a great disturbance in the force of late, exacerbated enormously and precipitously by Uncle Joe Biden's disastrous perfor...

Martin Short has been guest hosting for Jimmy Kimmel this week, and I'm here to tell you that the 74 year-old legend has not lost an inc...

Yes, use this post to discuss what promises to be a messy NBA Draft tonight. But really this post was just an excuse to recognize the grand ...

In the summer of 2005, on an overcast day in Brewster, MA, my wife took a picture of me walking down the beach with my kids, then 4 and 15 m...

Rum, as it turns out, is a surprisingly effective part of a healthy training regimen. Let me explain. I'm staying at my cousin's pla...

Athletic achievements and careers are often parsed with an auditor’s eye and a toddler’s energy due to the delightful human tendency to view...