Larry Brown Sports
Brown Bag it, Baby
Yeah, sure, it’s all well and good for roses. But, let’s face it, colleges by other names just, well, stink. Have you ever turned on the television during the early part of college basketball season only to find your favorite team playing a school …
It’s about that time of year again. Time for that annual resolution, the most pointless endeavor this side of a weigh-in for a heavyweight fight. My previous New Year’s declarations have included increasing career prospects, becoming more optimistic, …
It almost feels like Christmas in December. It’s baseball’s annual right of passage, winter free agent signings that net sums of money so ghastly even hedge fund managers are blushing. At this rate, the good folks at Major League Baseball may have to …
Conference jumping. It’s the latest trend hitting the world of college sports. Perhaps it will one day become an official Olympic sport, featuring slightly more polyester pants than golf and certainly less coordination and nose plugs than …
Perhaps LeBron James would have been more prophetic (or is that pathetic?) if he had just told America he was taking his talents SOUTH. Who knew that, when Sire James went off on his Electric Company rant- “Not 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, but 7”- he was …
Here’s to you, Terry Donahue. We interrupt this USC rules violation to bring you a football game. While the University of Statutory Cheating squares off against a football team Undergoing Currently Languid Athleticism, collegial loyalties are split …
Isn’t the holiday season grand? People slipping in and out of a gravy-induced coma, gathering around the television to watch the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys try to figure out the rules of football, and the annual exchange of gift receipts. That …
There were a number of things you were told not to do as a kid: play with matches, throw food, imitate a teppanyaki chef by horsing around with the Ginsu, shoving burnt sienna and periwinkle crayons up your nose, and most of all,… cheer for the …
‘Tis the winter of our discontent. I presume Bill Shakespeare wasn’t thinking baseball when he wrote that line, but he could easily have been speaking for Dodger fans everywhere in 2010. ‘Tis true Los Angeles, the San Francisco Giants are World …
Fall conjures up so many great images. The changing of colors of Randy Moss’ uniform. Another World Series which rates lower than a Mary Lou Retton floor routine. And then there is All Hallows Eve. Over 17,000 fans who dress up in costume in the …
Remember the PE coach you had when you were a kid? Middle-aged fellow, hated life, perhaps kicked a dog or two along the way, worked the night shift at Denny’s perhaps. Or what about the trite, hackneyed maxims that he would yell… “It’s gut check …
Better check the thermostat in hell. Consider this baseball’s version of Haley’s Comet colliding with a white whale. The Texas Rangers are playing the San Francisco Giants in the World Series?!? I haven’t been this confused since I first listened to …
Baseball. It’s as American as the political scandal and substandard automobiles. The crack of the bat, the plunging of the steroid needle, the fresh smell of grass, and the ABCs of the PEDs are things we all associate with this nation’s supposed …
Louis Daguerre must be doing McTwists in his grave by now. When the Frenchman put into process what we now know as photographs in 1837, little did he know what his creation would produce some 170 years later. Unless you have just returned from a …
