Larry Brown Sports
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I have to admit: I felt a wee bit patriotic on July 4. Never mind that my last name is Lee, that I have an unhealthy fixation with udon, or that every article of clothing I’m currently wearing was probably made in a country that helped comprise the …
Typically, it is not an easy thing to define one’s legacy, especially in this day and age. (I’ve tried with my own, but nothing printable for a family audience can be written in this space.) For athletes, there was a time where their impact on a …
When I have the time (read: about every waking hour of the day) I usually contemplate many of life’s seemingly unanswerable questions. What felled the dinosaurs? Why do “flammable” and “inflammable” mean the same thing? How …
It takes place once every two years, around the time it usually takes for me to get a pay stub — emphasis on stub — for writing one of these articles: the Olympics. The event comes as a reminder when people all of a sudden start getting …
Wait, so Devils were playing in Los Angeles and it wasn’t a home game? (I really could have used a response from a sidekick like Ed McMahon for that one.) It’s almost official. The L.A. Kings are having their name removed from a rather lengthy list …
Sports marketing has come a long way since the days of Abe Stark’s curtly-worded “Hit Sign, Win Suit” in right centerfield at Ebbets Field. Perhaps, one could say, fashion has also come a long way since the days of showing up to the …
It’s a word that has long and deeply-rooted negative connotations in sports and society writ large. To even mention the word during the Middle Ages was grounds for a jousting duel. Flopping in the Old West was commonly seen during the counting off of …
Just in case you have just arisen from a quarter-century nap, don’t be so alarmed by all the changes: Jamie Moyer is still pitching. If you have to re-read that sentence, don’t worry because, at 49, Moyer probably would have to, a result of …
It is a funny thing sometimes how sports and acronyms go hand-in-hand. Sure, you have the network jumble from ABC to ESPN, as well as the alphabet soup of sports leagues. People who follow baseball throw around ERA and OBP a lot. Some who have never …
One month of the baseball season has passed. Albert Pujols has as many home runs on May 2nd as he did on December 2nd. The Dodgers are in first place, this time not just for being one of the Major Leagues’ most mismanaged teams. Who would have …
Almost as soon as Ron Artest changed his name last year, someone had to expect the headline was coming: “World Peace Suspended”. Now, taken out of context, this caption would probably cause folks in parts of North Korea and Sudan to jump for joy. …
Have you ever wondered why baseball players simply walk to first base after not having to swing the bat at four bad pitches? When was the last time anyone stopped to consider the grammatical legitimacy of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game”? Who ever …
Sometimes it’s great to live in a country where Presidents forget the definition of is, Jimmer becomes a popular baby name, and the closest our children come to learning mathematics begins and ends with Octomom. But, sometimes the best part about …
March is now, like my usual communiqués, a distant memory. In my household we know that the month of April has arrived as it comes annually at some point between the strains of “One Shining Moment” playing over old summer camp footage of me and just …
Have you ever found yourself sitting around, lamenting about the good old days, when bounties were prevalent and harsh justice was being served? Well, perhaps now would be a good time to get that bowler hat out of storage. If you missed it, last week …
This week, the city of Denver was hit with the biggest news since John Denver purportedly founded the city (my grade school had massive cutbacks on reputable history textbooks). Or, at least since Brady Quinn agreed to terms with the Kansas City …
