By Tom Jones, Times Staff Writer
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Number of the day
96 Percentage of Washington Capitals season ticket holders who have renewed for next year, according to team owner Ted Leonis. And much of the credit should go to Leonsis, who has put together a first-rate franchise since taking over in 1999. Under Leonsis' leadership, the Capitals have become one of the top franchises in the NHL and a hot ticket in a busy sports town.
Rumor of the day
Basketball legend Larry Brown might have another coaching job left in him. Yahoo Sports reports that Brown, 70, could end up at Arkansas. Brown's coaching career includes eight NBA teams, two American Basketball Association teams and two college teams, not counting Davidson, where he left before coaching a game. His college teams were UCLA and Kansas, where he won the NCAA championship in 1988.
He wrote it
If TV execs wish to equate hysterical and transparently forced screaming — the kind Gus Johnson provided on TNT, Friday, during the last few minutes of George Mason over Villanova — with professional play-by-play, well, a noble art continues to take on water.
Phil Mushnick, New York Post