Former LSU basketball coach Dale Brown is considering moving back to his native North Dakota to run for the state’s lone U.S. House seat, according to Republican leaders in that state (this sentence as published has been corrected in this text).
Brown, who retired in 1997 after 25 years at LSU, now works as an analyst on college broadcasts and as a motivational speaker. His company, Dale Brown Enterprises, is based in Baton Rouge, La.
GOP state chairman Dan Traynor said Brown’s long absence from the state where he went to high school and college would be something he would have to address in a campaign against five-term incumbent Earl Pomeroy. But friends say Brown has kept in touch with his North Dakota roots, and his first basketball coaching job was at Columbus (N.D.) High.
“[Brown] is not [U.S. Sen.] Hillary Clinton,” Traynor said. “He’s actually lived in North Dakota.”
Lining out
Fox Sports is eliminating the computer-generated “1st and Ten” line from its NFL telecasts until further notice as part of its cost cutting.
Fox had been using the feature, which shows how far a team is from a first down, on two games a week.
The cost of the electronic line to Fox is $20,000 to $25,000 a game.
The real race
With the Cubs’ late-season downward spiral, which Chicago team will finish with the best record? The chart below compares their records.
TEAM W L PCT GB
Cubs 84 71 .542 —
White Sox 81 74 .523 3
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