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https://www.theodysseyonline.com/larry-brown-says-farewell-smu Larry Brown Says Farewell To SMU SPORTS Larry Brown Says Farewell To SMU But are we really that shocked? Becky Wirth  - Jul 12, 2016 Southern Methodist University Philly.com On July 9, Larry Brown announced his resignation as head coach of Southern Methodist University's basketball team after four seasons. This was Brown's 13th head coaching position and third head coaching position for a college team. After just four seasons with SMU, Brown was able to completely rebuild SMU's basketball program, having three straight 25-plus win seasons and an appearance in the NCAA tournament in 2015. This was SMU's first appearance in the tournament in 22 years. So why did Brown decide to leave? Apparently, it was over a contract dispute. Brown wanted a five-year contract, while SMU was offering only a two or three-year deal. After not being able to reach an agreement, Brown resigned. There have been many criticisms of b...

https://www.smu.edu/news/archives/2012/larry-brown-ap-23april2012 https://www.espn.com/dallas/ncb/story/_/id/7845982/smu-mustangs-introduce-larry-brown-amid-immediate-fanfare ESPN.com news services - Apr 23, 2012, 01:41 PM ET DALLAS -- Larry Brown has returned to college coaching. Brown was formally introduced Monday as the men's basketball coach at SMU , his first college job in nearly a quarter century. The 71-year-old Hall of Famer joked about his age and said he looked forward to coaching "quality basketball with quality student-athletes " at a school that has long struggled to be relevant in Dallas and nationally. SMU has not won an NCAA tournament game since 1988 -- the same year Brown won a national title at Kansas in his last season in college. Brown brushed off questions about how long he would stay at SMU, saying he thought the Mustangs had the resources to compete in the Big East when it joins the conference in 2013. "When I look in the mirror, I get kind...

https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2014/january/why-larry-brown-is-at-smu/ In his second year rebuilding the school's basketball program, the only coach to win an NBA and NCAA championship still loves being in the gym. By Zac Crain | December 17, 2013|12:00 am From  D Magazine January 2014 Subscribe You beat out Kentucky and Kansas to sign point guard Emmanuel Mudiay, one of the top five recruits in the country and arguably the biggest name to ever come to SMU. What does his signing mean to the program? He’s as good a player as there is in the country, and he’s a better kid. He’s from Dallas. He’s got a great family. Those are the kids we gotta continue to sign. We got Keith Frazier last year, out of Dallas, and now Emmanuel, and Emmanuel’s brother, Jean-Michael (a junior transfer from Western Texas College). We’ve got some really good young people coming into our program. That’s huge. Also huge for the program: Moody Coliseum reopens this month, after a $47 million...

11 Mar 2024 - L'Équipe DE NOTRE ENVOYÉ SPÉCIAL PIERRE MENJOT "Rejoindre cette équipe est la meilleure décision de ma carrière,  alors que beaucoup ont pu trouver ça stupide"    - JORGENSON MATTEO L’Américain n’a jamais tremblé face à Remco Evenepoel pour remporter hier sur la Côte d’Azur, où il vit, un Paris-Nice ouvert et indécis jusqu’au bout. La plus belle victoire de sa carrière avant de se mettre au service de ses leaders Wout Van Aert et Jonas Vingegaard. NICE – Soudain, Matteo Jorgenson a comme été pris d’un vertige. Un dimanche au soleil l’attendait, à longer les plages où il aime se poser pour observer la mer, à rouler sur les routes qu’il emprunte au retour de l’entraînement ou pour s’acheter une baguette. Mais l’enjeu a, d’un coup, rattrapé l’Américain (24ans) samedi soir. «C’est la première fois de ma vie oùj’ airessenti autant de pression, en a-t-il rigolé hier. J’ai dormi cinq heures, je n’étais pas vraiment calme…» Ses réponses étaient plus courtes avant le...

10 Mar 2024 - Il Fatto Quotidiano Daniela Ranieri L’avevamo lasciato col ciglio umido dopo l’intervista a “Cyborg”, il soldato del battaglione nazista Azov “con l’occhio di vetro e il braccio di titanio” asserragliato sotto le acciaierie Azovstal, un elogio superomistico-necrofilo del guerriero e del suo “volto bello e pallidissimo”. Due giorni fa, il mediaticissimo filosofo Bernard-Henri Lévy è tornato su Repubblica in merito a Israele. https://milano.repubblica.it/cronaca/2023/06/16/news/maurizio_molinari_a_dialogo_con_bernard-henri_levy_alla_milanesiana_-404731424/ BHL sminuisce subito l’accusa di genocidio, lanciata dal “Brasile di Lula e dal Sudafrica di Mandela” ( dimentica la Corte di Giustizia Internazionale, che ha già ravvisato “prove sufficienti” sulla base della Convenzione sul Genocidio del 1948 per valutare la causa intentata dal Sudafrica ). Poi fornisce la sua ricostruzione della strage di Gaza City, 112 morti e 760 feriti: i palestinesi sono morti “alcuni schiacciati ...

Comme la veille, Jonas Vingegaard a fait le ménage pour s’imposer en solo au sommet du Monte Petrano. Le Danois remportera tout à l’heure le général de Tirreno-Adriatico, ce qui sera déjà sa 7e victoire de la saison. 10 Mar 2024 - L'Équipe DE NOTRE ENVOYÉ SPÉCIAL ALEXANDRE ROOS "Je n’avais plus d’air, j’ai explosé,  mais je suis content,  je suis le premier des humains"    - JUAN AYUSO (ESP,  UAE EMIRATES),    2e DE L’ÉTAPE ET DU GÉNÉRAL MONTE PETRANO (ITA) – En ce début de saison, Jonas Vingegaard a autant d’occasions de tester ses jambes que de huiler son petit rituel de célébration quand il passe la ligne d’arrivée en solo. Un baiser sur chacune de ses mains, dont une sur son alliance, bras en l’air et sourire de Joker. Sans surprise, le Danois a eu le temps hier au sommet du Monte Petrano de dérouler sa routine de victoire, juste un peu moins que la veille à Valle Castellana. L’étape reine de Tirreno-Adriatico fut un copier-coller de celle de vendr...

https://www.si.com/college/2016/07/08/larry-brown-resigns-smu-mustangs Larry Brown’s sudden departure from SMU was likely about more than his contract, says Seth Davis—it was Larry Brown being Larry Brown. SETH DAVIS Sports Illustrated - JUL 8, 2016 NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. — It was late Thursday evening, and I was leaving the Riverview Park Activities Center after a long day attending Nike’s EYBL Peach Jam, one of the premier events of the summer recruiting circuit. As I exited the building, I ran into Tim Jankovich, SMU’s associate head coach. He was standing with newly hired Oklahoma State head coach Brad Underwood. As the three of us bantered, I asked Jankovich where his boss, Larry Brown, was this week. “Oh, he’s at an event in Texas,” Jankovich replied. Turning to Underwood, Jankovich quipped, “No need to go there. There aren’t any good players for you in Texas.” Jankovich later confirmed to me that at that moment, he had absolutely no inkling that less than 24 hours later, his boss w...

Il n’aura fallu qu’une accélération de Jonas Vingegaard, dans San Giacomo, à 29 kilomètres de l’arrivée, pour plier la concurrence et la course. 9 Mar 2024 - L'Équipe DE NOTRE ENVOYÉ SPÉCIAL ALEXANDRE ROOS "Personne n’a été surpris (…)  Quand tu fais rouler tes équipiers comme ça,  c’est que tu veux attaquer.  Personne ne pouvait suivre de toute manière"    - JUAN 'AYU'SO (ESP, UAE) VALLE CASTELLANA (ITA) – Comme il avait concassé les présents et créé un désert autour de lui, il fallait bien convoquer l’absent, le seul capable de boxer sur le même ring que lui, pour tenter de maintenir la flamme d’une rivalité à distance. Après avoir déroulé quelques propos convenus sur sa forme, qu’il juge bonne, et sur l’étape d’aujourd’hui, qui sera encore dure et où il faudra être vigilant, Jonas Vingegaard a entendu le nom de Tadej Pogacar arriver en conférence de presse, petit fantôme en lévitation autour des oreilles du Danois. Mais le double vainqueur du Tour de France a...

Evaristo Beccalossi: «Feci allenare con noi Enrico Ruggeri Hansi Müller era belloccio e la sera sfruttavo la sua scia» Il papà bianconero «Quando segnai alla Juve mio padre mi sgridò: ma proprio tu dovevi fare gol?» di Paolo Tomaselli 8 Mar 2024 - Corriere della Sera © RIPRODUZIONE RISERVATA - Evaristo Beccalossi, ma davvero dopo che un gatto nero le attraversò la strada a Campitello Matese, lei fermò l’auto e aspettò un’ora che ne passasse un’altra? «Ero in anticipo e sono rimasto lì a fumare e a guardare il panorama. Dopo un’ora è arrivata un’ape e sono potuto ripartire. È un classico esempio del mio non-ragionare». - Lei ha sempre detto che il suo primo idolo è stato Sivori, suo papà era juventino: se facciamo due più due... «Non ci provi: mai stato juventino. Però Omar è stato il primo che ho cercato di imitare: sono un destro naturale e mi allenavo per ore con il sinistro, per diventare come lui. Ci marcio ancora oggi». - Con chi? «Coi ragazzi dell’under 19 dell’italia, che mi chi...

https://vault.si.com/vault/1968/12/16/shining-star-under-a-cloud BECAUSE OF YOUTHFUL INDISCRETIONS, CONNIE HAWKINS, WHO SMOTHERS THE BALL AND FOES WITH GIANT HANDS, IS THE BEST UNKNOWN PRO IN THE LAND by Peter Carry Sports Illustrated -  DECEMBER 16, 1968 TABLE OF CONTENTS ORIGINAL LAYOUT Bill Sharman, who played 10 seasons for the Boston Celtics and has coached three pro teams, thinks Connie Hawkins is one of the world's seven best basketball players . Yet unless you hang around Brooklyn's Nostrand Avenue or are among the few who watch the pros at the 11 outposts of the American Basketball Association, you probably have never even heard of him. Now a 6'8" center with the ABA champion Minnesota Pipers, Hawkins inflicted obscurity on himself when he figured in the college basketball scandals of the early '60s. He was not convicted of anything—he was not even brought to trial—but he has had to labor ever since to restore luster to his reputation. Because of a legal p...

Janine Anquetil embrasse son mari, Jacques,  à l’arrivée de Bordeaux-Paris, le 30 mai 1965. La veuve du premier quintuple vainqueur du Tour de France, s’est éteinte dimanche, en Corse. Elle avait joué un rôle central dans la vie et la carrière du champion normand. 6 Mar 2024 - L'Équipe YOHANN HAUTBOIS “Je ne l’aimais pas beaucoup  car il me compliquait la vie" JANINE ANQUETIL', AU'SUJET  DE SES PREMIÈRES RENCONTRES AVEC JACQUES Janine Anquetil s’est éteinte à 96ans, dimanche matin à Calenzana, près de Calvi, tout au bout d’une vie de courses, de victoires, de douleur et de fêtes, aussi, puisque la veuve de Jacques Anquetil – décédé en 1987, à 53 ans – était réputée bonne vivante au sein du Château de La Neuville-Chant-d’Oisel (Seine-Martitime), où les soirées s’étiraient du vendredi au lundi. Jean-Christian Biville, ami du couple, ancien coureur pro chez Mercier et ancien photographe de L’Équipe, s’était souvenu, il y a quelques années, de l '« extraordinaire meneu...

Posted by bobkuska January 2, 2023 Posted in Uncategorized Tags: ABA , ABL , Bill Bridges , Bill Sharman , Connie Hawkins , Dick Barnett , Ed Fleming , George Mikan , George Steinbrenner , Minnesota Pipers , Pittsburgh Pipers , Vince Cazzetta , Wayne Hightower , Wilt Chamberlain [Happy New Year! This article comes from Jim O’Brien, a journalist who would cover the ABA like no other in the 1970s for the New York Post and The Sporting News .  But here, O’Brien is still in back his hometown (where he is today, actually) writing for Pittsburgh Weekly Sports . His subject is none other than Connie Hawkins. O’Brien’s article, which appeared in the magazine Fast Break 1969 All-Pro Basketball Annual (or pre-David Wolf’s classic book Foul ) doesn’t cover much new territory. But it does include some really nice quotes, which put Hawkins’ unique talent in perspective before his bolt to the NBA. That’s why I’m kicking off 2023 with a tribute to The Hawk. May all readers of this blog use thei...