Larry Brown Sports
Brown Bag it, Baby
It was 1995. I can remember watching those precious few seconds tick away as Tyus Edney drove the length of the floor against Missouri in the Final Four. For some reason, I watched the end of the game in Solvang, California, apparently a dose of …
You can call off the search. It looks like Roger Goodell has found his Messiah. Nope, it’s not a really tall guy, wearing sandals, sporting a snowy, white beard. (If my religious imagery has been formulated through years of watching cartoons, I …
It’s becoming harder and harder to find a saving grace in college sports. Personally, I’d like to believe that the arena of college athletics is still the bastion of fine, upstanding amateur student-athletes and coaches who not only lead their teams …
If you discount people occupying things, high-profile court cases, and celebrity divorces, there is not a whole lot to talk about as far as news in Los Angeles. Sure, you have the occasional kook trying to convince the town’s sports peons that the …
Being the Number Two in anything is never an enviable task. Besides the penchant for sophomoric jokes focusing on one being a “Number Two” to begin with, having to deal with being a sub-celebrity is no doubt a humbling experience. (I’ve …
Ah, yes, it’s that time of year. The leaves have long ago begun to change color. Winter is not too far away. And the American viewing public is knee-deep in promotional ads for FOX television shows that are destined to be canceled before the next …
Lockout. It’s a noun quickly gaining in popularity in the English dictionary, along with “Kardashian.” Just when you thought it was safe to come out from the heap of collective bargaining rhetoric from the NFL, now basketball is knee-deep …
Oh, the trials and tribulations of being a punter or kicker in football. The positions stand as the Rodney Dangerfield of the sport: no respect, no respect at all. They are the butt of every joke on the gridiron. What do you call the guy that hangs …
“Choking” is not a very nice term to use, especially with respect to sports teams. That is why I am using it right now. Thanks to CPR training, I can tell you that choking refers to an obstruction leading to a blockage of the airway …
As if the nomenclature in the world of sports didn’t make it tough enough already to distinguish football from football, which needs an “American” qualifier preceding it or a “FOOT-bowl” pronunciation change to separate the two from classifying …
Let’s face it folks, Twitter is apparently here to stay. If Martin Luther King, Jr. had delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech some fifty years later, he might have needed to amend it to include the content of people’s 140 characters. It used …
As if you needed Boseephus, fueled on a methamphetamine binge, screaming “Are you ready for some football?” to excite you anymore than humanly possible for the arrival of football. Well, that is if you’re not a proud member of the UCLA Alumni …
“Dear Mr. Fantasy, play me a tune, something to make us all happy.” With apologies to Traffic, I imagine Steve Winwood was not singing about my latest foray into fantasy football; and, if he was, the tune was discordant, and the only people being …
Remember the days when a sports injury could be easily treated with a Band-Aid, a soothing balm, and large handfuls of Excedrin? Well, apparently, those days are gone, ever since baseball players have found new and inventive ways to hurt themselves, …
According to reliable sources (Wikipedia), “The Kansas City Royals are a Major League Baseball team based in Kansas City, Missouri.” Only part of that is true. Here is a toast to one of the only teams in professional sports to defy the laws of …
The roar of the crowd. The anticipation of a game-changing play. The elation of victory. These were all things I knew nothing about after a truncated and disconsolate career in the game of baseball, a career which drove me to a Big League Chew …
