Author Bio & Stories

Gregg Gethard

Gregg Gethard is a writer who lives in Philadelphia and also co-hosts The Holding Court Podcast, which only sort of talks about basketball. He can be followed on twitter @holdingcourtpod.

  • March 28, 2013
    The Family Hour

    La Salle University's basketball program has had its happy moments, but very few over the last two decades. After storming from the play-in game to the Sweet 16, this most family-oriented of March Madness underdogs is having one now, and sharing it widely.

  • March 4, 2013
    It's All Fake: My Life In Virtual Wrestling

    Pro wrestling demands an unusual suspension of disbelief, but Efedding—online, role-playing virtual wrestling—requires something more profound of the people who are obsessed with it: actual, total belief in the wrestlers and rivalries that they've collaborated in making up.

  • July 17, 2012
    A Handball Nation with a Basketball Problem

    Imagine if there was a sport at which the United States should be the best in the world, but instead of being the best in the world, they lose (routinely) to Greenland. Welcome, friends, to the world of team handball.