Larry Brown Sports
Brown Bag it, Baby
If you have ever happened upon a big dance, we would like to hear from you. If you know someone who has had their ticket punched, please let us know. Has your bubble burst lately? If it has, perhaps you should consult a gastroenterologist or, barring …
These must be trying times for sports enthusiasts. As if the rising cost of peanuts wasn’t bad enough, there is plenty of talk about how coaches are offering bounties to free your team of its star players. And, here I thought, bounties went out with …
If something notable had occurred in the sports world over the weekend, I probably would have used this space to wax inexorable on the first players ever involved in a benches-clearing brawl at the NBA All-Star Game. Or, barring that, the first ever …
This week marked the opening of the NFL’s post-lockout franchise tag window. If that sentence all but made you plotz then let’s face it, you are a diagnosable football fan. If you are not at that level yet perhaps you are aware that Wednesday is the …
I am going to be honest for a moment, which, given my track record, is almost impossible. When I sat down to write this article, I had absolutely no idea about what I was going to write. Think about it. The NFL is in the midst of its three-week …
I have never been big on gambling on sports, which is to say that I’ve never been very good at it. This past weekend once again delivered one of the world’s largest annual sporting exhibitions, the Super Bowl. It also enabled a global viewing …
New York. Boston. The Evil Empire. The ‘Roid Sox. Knickerbockers and Chowderheads. The Big Apple and Beantown. Put those two together, and not only will you get a bad case of flatulence with the latter but you also end up with one of the most …
Many years ago — actually it might have been last week — I was given a piece of sage advice from my parents: Two issues you never bring up in the company of strangers are religion and politics. Seeing as how I have never really been big …
Joe Paterno’s death on Sunday added yet another tumultuous twist to a story that has already seen a roller coaster’s share of turns. Following the passing of one of the most iconic figures in the history of college sports, it now remains to be seen …
The best way to describe Kobe Bean Bryant is half-man, half-mamba, half-ay caramba. Of course, to make the math work you have to understand that certain sportswriters flunked math in college. That’s partly why I’m discoursing on this subject and not …
Anyone who has spent some portion of their life watching a sporting event has seen it in the past. Whether it has come in the wake of a scoring play, a postgame comment, or a fumble that apparently cost the game for a non-believing running back, it …
The drumbeat grows louder. Presumably, by this time, the average college football fan has all but ruined their appetite by filling up on the crudités that is every other bowl contest leading up to the BCS National Championship Game on Monday. (In …
Ah, yes, New Year’s resolutions. They’re an American staple like tinsel and store credit. To some, the notion causes more consternation than having to find out what poor sap will get that re-gifted brand of poorly-aged scotch received as a holiday …
So the NBA has returned; and, fittingly, controversy has not been too far behind. While the nuances of the new collective bargaining agreement continue to be disseminated to a non-legalese American public hell-bent on recording leagues games without …
It’s bowl season. Time to get bowled over by terrible puns and off-beat references. Ah yes, a respite for all the hullabaloo of college sports. Or, perhaps a medium for exploiting the craziness. While San Diego State prepares to join the Big East …
The times they are a-changin’. Amen, Bob Dylan. (Or is that Robert Zimmerman? I forget.) Just as with life itself, sports are simply not what they once were. You can’t buy a bleacher seat for a nickel anymore, but a Jose Canseco autograph could …
