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Stephen Roche after winning the Tour de France in 1987. Image: ©INPHO/Billy Stickland https://www.the42.ie/i-wanted-to-leave-my-mark-stephen-roche-recalls-tour-de-france-win-25-years-on-458968-May2012/ The cycling legend from Dundrum captured three of the sports top prizes in a golden 1987 year. May 21st 2012,  IRISH CYCLING LEGEND Stephen Roche today recalled the finest year of his sporting career. The Dundrum sportsman spoke to Newstalk’s Chris Donoghue about his rise to the top of the cycling world in 1987 and how his achievement briefly gave the Irish public a chance to reflect on something other than violence in Northern Ireland and economic woe. Roche went from working as an apprentice in a dairy factory to Tour de France winner in eight years and captured the public’s imagination with a stunning series of cycling results. Now living in France, Roche recalled that he had to order in a cycling magazine at his local newsagents each week as there was no proper coverage of the s...

https://www.amazon.it/Lost-Souls-Storie-basket-strada/dp/8896184274/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8 di Christian Giordano © LOST SOULS - Storie e miti del basket di strada «Let’s pop him». Facciamolo saltare. Un attimo, tre vite. Buttate via per sempre. E per che cosa? Per leggi di strada per le quali chi nulla ha, nulla rispetta. Se non, forse, la reputazione. Per farsene una, nella distorta e distorcente mentalità del ghetto, a volte basta imporre al prossimo di cederti il passo. A Benjamin “Benji” Wilson invece era bastato diventare, in due anni (e con 18 centimetri in più), la star della Neal F. Simeon Vocational High School. Da junior, quel «Magic Johnson con tante altre cose, tra cui difesa e tiro in sospensione», specie se eseguito dall’angolo, aveva trascinato i Wolverines di coach Bob Hambric al titolo statale dell’Illinois. Superate Chicago Robeson (44-42) nel Super-Sectional al Pavillion di University of Illinois-Chicago e via via, alla Assembly Hall ...

The N.C.A.A. said the problems involving S.M.U. under Larry Brown  included academic fraud and unethical conduct.Credit...  Tony Gutierrez/Associated Press https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/30/sports/ncaabasketball/larry-brown-suspended-and-smu-basketball-sanctioned-by-ncaa.html By The Associated PressSept. 29, 2015 DALLAS — The N.C.A.A. banned the S.M.U. men’s basketball team from postseason play on Tuesday and suspended its veteran coach, Larry Brown , for nine games after concluding that he lied to investigators, ignored academic fraud and fell far short of expectations in leading his staff when it came to compliance. In a scathing report, the N.C.A.A. noted that Brown had previously coached at Kansas and U.C.L.A., yet made “choices against his better judgment when it came to compliance issues” at S.M.U., where he is preparing for his fourth season. “These choices included not reporting possible violations in his program, initially lying to the enforcement staff during the in...

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2616242-banned-from-the-ncaa-tournament-larry-brown-and-smu-fight-to-regain-their-pride JASON KING Bleacher report - FEBRUARY 15, 2016 DALLAS — Two days after their quest for an undefeated season ended with an 89-80 loss at Temple—dropping their record to 18-1—the SMU Mustangs erased any lingering bad vibes with a spirited, two-hour practice at Moody Coliseum. The workout ended with a huddle near the baseline. "We're back!" the players chanted as they broke the huddle. "We're back!" Standing a few feet away, head coach Larry Brown could only smile and shake his head. "Seriously," he said, "can you believe these kids? Their outlook, their attitudes? Unbelievable." This wasn't the first time Brown had marveled at his team's resiliency. He did it in March 2014, when the Mustangs reached the NIT title game after being inexplicably passed over for the NCAA tournament despite a 23-9 regular-season re...

https://vault.si.com/vault/1984/11/12/where-you-gonna-be-next-year-larry THE OLD QUESTION STILL HAUNTS LARRY BROWN, THOUGH HE'S SHOWN SIGNS THAT COACHING AT KANSAS COULD BE THE LAST STOP IN HIS ODYSSEY by SI Staff Sports Illustrated - NOVEMBER 12, 1984 Six mornings a week, at 8:45, the silver bells jingle. The door to the Carol Lee doughnut shop is opening, and the 44-year-old grandson of the baker for the czar of Russia walks in. He knows as well as anyone in Lawrence, Kans. that the strawberry butterflies and the blueberry fritters at Muncher's Bakery are better than anything behind the glass counter at Carol Lee . And yet, there's Larry Brown walking past the Kansas basketball schedule and the lost-cat advertisement thumbtacked to the Carol Lee bulletin board, looking at the pictures of the counter girl's new baby taped to the wall, getting a grin from the baby's grandma, who bakes the doughnuts each dawn, and trading "Mornin's" with the man in over...