The Press Box

Personal reflections on sports and sportswriting, the games I’ve covered, and the many people I’ve met along the way.

For Charlie, Johnny and guys like us

Sep 7, 2021

I had no idea who Charlie Fisher was until a few months ago, when I was covering Conrad Weiser is a District 3 basketball playoff game. Fisher was coaching Manheim Central, which was at a considerable size disadvantage but able to…

Time for a new approach

Aug 1, 2021

Time and space. Those are the dual enemies every sportswriter faces in a daily battle that is almost never won. When you're covering sports for a daily print product there's never enough space to fully tell the story … never…