Gordon Engelhardt

Former News/Senior sports reporter and columnist, Evansville Courier & Press. Contributor Evansville Living. Pro baseball fanatic and rock 'n roll historian.

[Gordon Engelhardt @EngGordon]

‘Smallville’ at 25: Tom Welling and Michael Rosenbaum on Clark Kent and Lex Luthor’s Origin Story, the Journey to Superman and That Final Moment https://t.co/dVTdINLZyU via @variety

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May Cliff Hagan, master of the hook shot long before Kareem, RIP. The Owensboro, Ky., native helped lead UK to 1951 NCAA championship and St. Louis Hawks to 1958 NBA title. Hagan was a five-time NBA All-Star and ABA All-Star.

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A Gridiron Legacy https://t.co/3mSNiqaCxR via @Evansville Living Magazine

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A Gridiron Legacy https://t.co/3mSNiqaCxR via @Evansville Living Magazine

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Update: Phillies sign Mattingly to two-year contract this morning.

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Don Mattingly is expected to be named the Phillies full time manager sometime this week, according to The Athletic. He guided the Phils to a 79-55 record and NL Wild Card berth as interim.

[Gordon Engelhardt @EngGordon]

Don Mattingly is expected to be named the Phillies full time manager sometime this week, according to The Athletic. He guided the Phils to a 79-55 record and NL Wild Card berth as interim.

[Soul Power & the ABA @abathrowbacks]

So, if we’re gonna celebrate the ABA all season long, we’re also gonna include ABA stats in the NBA records. Right?!

@NBAHistory @NBA @Pacers @spurs @BrooklynNets @nuggets @RebBrownell

[Robby Incmikoski @RobbyInc62]

This is the most brutal honesty you’ll ever hear from a Major League Baseball player.

Cameron Maybin was drafted 10th overall, spent 15 years playing at the highest level, won a World Series and is well-respected around the game.

Anyone who spends enough time around a major league clubhouse knows that what Cameron is saying is a very common sentiment around the league from those who play it and coach it!

Many are afraid to say it because of obvious reasons, so take a moment and appreciate Cameron’s honesty.

He is 1,000,000% spot on!

[The Sporting News @sportingnews]

Jackie Young ties the game at 71 with a bucket that eventually sent the game to overtime 👏

(via @LVAces)

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Here’s my Ditka story. A young reporter in N. Illinois I covered the Bears on verge of greatness in early 80s. They lost to Landry and Cowboys and Iron Mike was breathing fire. Chicago TV guys baited him and he says, “Yes, next question.” Then “No, next question” and on it went!

[Chicago Bears @ChicagoBears]

Player. Coach. Legend.

Mike Ditka embodied the spirit of Chicago and will be deeply missed.

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I asked Bobby Dylan, I asked the Beatles. I asked Timothy Leary and he couldn’t help me either…

[Let Us Now Praise... The Beatles @BeatlesPraise]

"There were bands that I loved, and songwriters that I loved, like Ray Davies and Townshend — lots of people. But you know, when it’s all said and done, there was the Beatles and then there was everybody else. I don't think anyone ever put anything together as incredible as those guys. They were the band of all bands.

"I don’t think that the phenomenon of a band like the Beatles can ever be repeated. I just don’t think that you can get someone like John Lennon, someone like Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, you know, that kind of talent in one band. When you listen to the music and listen to all the parts, and you listen to the way the records sound, you think: 'there’s something else going on.' It creates something else . . . I think it has to do with how long they played together, the fact that they sang and played like — well, like brothers — but also there was just something divine about it, you know? I mean I’m not a religious person, but there was something.

"And I think that’s the thing that won’t be repeated. You know, you can get different people together and play those same songs and replicate everything and it’ll just sound nothing like them. That’s the remarkable thing."
--#ColinHay

#MenAtWork #Songwriter #ARIAHallOfFame #Actor #Beatles #TheBeatles #Influence #Unicorn #GOAT

Sources: SiriusXM, 2018, 2021; NBC San Diego, 2011

[Yahoo Sports @YahooSports]

Don Mattingly on whether he earned the right to return as the Phillies manager.

Mattingly was named interim manager in April after the team started 9-19.

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Not only do surprising Sox have Colson Montgomery and SIU product Tristan Peters, they boast four former Cardinals, not three, in Hicks, Grichuk, Pham and Fedde. After three 100-plus losing seasons, Sox win first playoff series since 2005. Go Sox go.

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Colson Montgomery homers in his first postseason game. Not bad.

[Chicago White Sox @whitesox]

sent that one 432 feet 💥

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Don Mattingly guides Phils to playoffs, averting visions of 1964 collapse in which surging Cards took advantage and beat Yanks in World Series.

[CBS Sports MLB @CBSSportsMLB]

Phillies survive scare, clinch playoff berth in Game 162: Three reasons why they can win the World Series

https://t.co/Yfl3sYOhM5

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Great run by the Otters, who fell short of their goal of winning Frontier League title every 10 years, trying to join 2006 and ‘16 champions.

[IHSAA @IHSAA1]

The Princeton Community HS graduate became our state's all-time girls career scoring leader in 2016 finishing with 3,268 points! @PCHSTigers

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Glad for Southridge HS product Colson Montgomery, SIU product Tristan Peters and three former Cardinals.

[MLB Network @MLBNetwork]

The @whitesox are back in the Postseason for the first time since 2021! 🍾

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And rebuild the bullpen.

[Brandon Kiley @BKSportsTalk]

Just mentioned this on the show: Andre Pallante is the 1st #STLCards starter to throw at least 150 innings with a sub-3.7 ERA since Jack Flaherty did so in 2019.

The Brewers, meanwhile, have had 10 individual seasons meet that criteria from 2021-2026.

That's the gap to close.

[Gordon Engelhardt @EngGordon]

Asterisk-Cards were under .500 in 1994 and ‘95 as well, but ‘94 was not a full season because of the stupid strike ended play after 114 games.

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If Cards don’t win out, they will finish below .500 in back to back years for first time since 1958-59, per ESPN, 2nd longest stretch between successive losing seasons in N. American pro sports.