Larry Brown Sports
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Some say The Masters is a tradition unlike any other. Well apparently, those folks have never had a limb broken in six different places, lost a par-5’s-worth of teeth along the boards, or donned a flak jacket instead of a green one. The NHL’s Stanley …
Avast ye, matey’s! It has been said that Halley’s Comet might appear on Earth twice in a typical human lifetime. The same could be said of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Somewhere on the spectrum of winning the lottery a few times in a row and finding one …
I can remember the seemingly halcyon days of my childhood spent at Dodger Stadium. None of us really minded during those years that Kal Daniels was patrolling the outfield, Rafael Bournigal was booting ground balls around the infield, or that Tommy …
Do you remember the time that you first felt the whip of a switch across your backside for spoiling your appetite with junk food before dinner? That might have been mankind’s first encounter with the phenomenon known as the unwritten rule. There is …
Oy. The agonizing few days remaining in March. Unless you went to a college situated in a Confederate stronghold, you probably lost interest in the NCAA tournament sometime after the tip-off of the opening games. If you’re looking for solace in the …
In honor of the coming baseball season, as well as the growing number of news sources and the subsequent collective shrinking of attention spans, here is the shortest and least informative 2011 Major League Baseball season preview you will find. …
Every year, during the month of March (and apparently a couple days into April) a condition afflicts many Americans. It is a condition that has yet to be recognized by the AMA despite its prevalence and the number of sick-days taken for ill-contrived …
You hear that sound of tires peeling out? Just call it the Kings’ screech. This confusing picture involving two cities and an NBA team is not likely to win any awards anytime soon. Sacramento is currently embroiled in a media feeding-frenzy the likes …
There are four words that send chills down the spine of a typical baseball degenerate: “Pitchers and catchers report.” As the waning moments of winter melt away (sounds almost poetic), baseball fans begin to rise from their 4-month cowhide …
He is the amazing Blake Griffin, able to leap tall Russians in a single bound. No one’s quite saying he is a superhero yet, after all he is a Clipper … Scavengers assemble! With Donald Sterling’s track record of nonchalance, the Spidey sense of LA …
Lockout. It’s the “L” word everyone’s talking about. Nope, it has nothing to do with the show, although I tried watching it in hopes of getting some information on the situation and left oddly confused about where the players and owners stand. Next …
Recently, OJ Mayo joined the long list of professional athletes who were caught using an illicit performance-enhancing substance and subsequently caught using a bad excuse to explain usage of said substance. Based on the now predictable response of …
We interrupt this championship event to bring you an innovative peanut commercial and a halftime show featuring non-threatening rock-and-roll coupled with the latest pop starlet. After two long weeks of waiting and wading … through the …
Remember when the All-Star Game meant something? I don’t either. There was a time when something impactful actually happened at these exhibitions, like the 1964 NBA All-Star Game, when the players threatened to not take the floor in the final minutes …
If only Mr. Blackwell were still alive… He probably would have had a heart attack and died, especially after seeing sports’ current version of the fashion statement. Uniforms. Watching last week’s Oregon-Auburn game, one might have gotten the …
Ah, January. ‘Tis the firing season in football, the holiday cheer just an enigma. Once the Hanukkah latkes and Christmas ham-induced haze wears off, reality sets in. Two sets of 8 crazy days and nights was about all that Mike Haywood had on the job …
