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http://grantland.com/features/what-larry-brown-doing-coaching-college-hoops/ What is Hall of Fame coach Larry Brown doing down at SMU?  The answer is complicated. Very complicated. BY NEAL GABLER GRANTLAND - FEBRUARY 12, 2013 At the age of 72, with the Naismith Hall of Fame on his résumé and his standing as the only basketball coach ever to have won both an NCAA championship and an NBA championship , you have to wonder why Larry Brown is riding the team bus nearly four hours down I-35 through Waco, Georgetown (not that Georgetown), Round Rock, and Austin to San Marcos and Texas State University; why at six one morning, he drives his Chevy Malibu to a Houston high school to scout a kid while Coach K flies in on his private jet ; why last July alone he hauled himself around the country to Philly, Indiana, Las Vegas, Orlando, two outposts in the Texas hinterlands, and Hampton, Virginia, where John Calipari of Kentucky and Bill Self of Kansas, two of Brown’s closest friends, sat seign...

https://www.si.com/college/2014/12/01/larry-brown-interview-smu-mustangs#gid=ci02558d5930002781&pid=001229628jpg SMU coach Larry Brown breaks down the controversies and accomplishments that have colored his storied career. SETH DAVIS Sports Illlustrated - DEC 1, 2014 One day last summer, SMU assistant c0oach Jerry Hobbie looked over the roster that his boss, Larry Brown , had been holding while attending a recruiting camp. The sheet had scrawls all over, but they weren’t Brown’s thoughts on the players he was supposed to be evaluating. Rather, they were diagrams he had made while talking shop with other coaches. “When I sit with these guys, I drive ’em crazy because I like to pick their brains,” Brown says. “Their assistants get mad because [the head coaches] don’t watch anything.” At an age when most people just want to play golf and watch sunsets , Larry Brown, 74, is in his third season at SMU, a school that has played in just one NCAA tournament in the last 26 years. It’s an u...

https://www.vanityfair.it/show/cinema/2019/06/02/lattimo-fuggente-30-anni-attori-film-robin-williams La pellicola consacrò per sempre la carriera di Robin Williams, morto suicida nel 2014. Ma i suoi più memorabili allievi del film all’insegna del «carpe diem» che fine hanno fatto? DI FRANCESCA PELLEGRINI VANITY FAIR, 2 GIUGNO 2019 «O Capitano, mio Capitano»: L’Attimo Fuggente - titolo originale, Dead Poets Society - compie trent'anni all’insegna del «carpe diem». Oscar alla Migliore sceneggiatura originale di Tom Schulman, il capolavoro di Peter Weir debuttò nelle sale il 2 giugno 1989. La storia di John Keating ( un indimenticabile Robin Williams ), il prof idealista che cambiò la vita degli studenti del rigoroso collegio Welton, è ispirata all'insegnante di letteratura inglese Samuel F. Pickering e alla sua esperienza nella scuola privata, Montgomery Bell Academy di Nashville. La star di Mork & Mindy, tuttavia, basò la sua interpretazione su John C. Campbell: suo prof di ...

https://www.amazon.it/Hoops-Memories-Momenti-basket-americano-ebook/dp/B01JAC2GTQ di CHRISTIAN GIORDANO © Rainbow Sports Books © Quella dei Philadelphia 76ers del 1971-72 era davvero una pessima squadra: di 82 gare di regular season ne vinse 30, terminando a 26 vittorie dai Boston Celtics campioni di division. Ma altre quattro formazioni riuscirono a fare addirittura peggio, tra queste i Portland Trail Blazers capaci di chiudere l’annata con un inguardabile 18-64. Subito dopo quella disgraziata stagione, i Sixers subirono una tremenda mazzata quando un giudice di Richmond, in Virginia, dispose che il capocannoniere della squadra, Billy Cunningham, avrebbe dovuto disputare la stagione successiva nei Carolina Cougars della ABA. Un passo indietro. “Kangaroo Kid” aveva in precedenza firmato con Carolina, ma sosteneva che erano stati i Cougars, con il loro mancato pagamento di un bonus, a rompere il contratto. I Sixers avevano già perso il coach, Jack Ramsey, che a fine ...