* Led by the legendary French Lick standout Larry Bird, Indiana State was the runner-up in the 1979 NCAA Tournament.

* Larry Bird

Los Angeles Lakers Magic Johnson and Boston Celtics Larry Bird in Game Two of the 1985 NBA Finals at Boston Garden.

That same year, rookies Larry Bird and Magic Johnson joined the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers respectively, initiating a period of significant growth in fan interest in the NBA throughout the country and the world.

Later on, Larry Bird won the first three three-point shooting contests.

* Magic Johnson and Larry Bird face against each other in three NBA Finals ': ' 84 ,' 85, and ' 87.

* Larry Bird

* December 7 – Larry Bird, American basketball player

Jordan returned for the playoffs, and took the 8th-place Bulls up against the 67 – 15 Boston Celtics, led by Larry Bird.

Larry Bird stole the inbound pass and passed it to Dennis Johnson for the game-winning layup.

In the 1997 – 98 NBA season Larry Bird coached the team, under whom they posted a new franchise record, finishing 58 – 24, a 19-game improvement from the previous season.

Pacers President Larry Bird noted that Carlisle had the opportunity to return to the Pacers franchise in another role.

All of Walsh's basketball-related duties were given to Pacers ' President of Basketball Operations Larry Bird.

The following day, president of basketball operations, Larry Bird stepped down.

The 29-game improvement was by far the best in league history — a record which would stand for 10 years until the Boston Celtics jumped from 29 wins in 1978 – 79 to 61 in 1979 – 80 ( the difference again being a highly-touted rookie, Larry Bird ).

The rivalry had been less intense since the retirements of Magic Johnson and Larry Bird in the early 1990s, but in 2008 it was renewed as the Celtics and Lakers met in the Finals for the first time since 1987, with the Celtics winning the series 4 – 2.

However, it is best known as the hometown of Larry Bird.

The town has been best known for being the hometown of NBA great Larry Bird ever since his professional basketball career took off.

It is the birthplace of NBA legend Larry Bird.

The first endorsers of " The Weapon " were Larry Bird and Magic Johnson, who were prominently featured in a Converse commercial set in Bird's hometown of French Lick, Indiana in 1986.

He was claimed by the Celtics, the top team in the league that year, led by rookie superstar Larry Bird .< ref >

Three of Gonzaga's most recent notable athletes are basketball players — former center Ronny Turiaf ( now playing for the Miami Heat ); third overall 2006 NBA Draft pick and Red Star Belgrade Adam Morrison ( who was selected by the Charlotte Bobcats ), regarded for his likeness to Hall of Famer Larry Bird ; and Courtney Vandersloot, 2011 winner of the Nancy Lieberman Award as the leading Division I women's point guard and women's Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award as the top Division I player no taller than 5 ' 8 " ( 1. 73 m ), selected third overall by the Chicago Sky in the 2011 WNBA Draft.

Fitch was a U. S. Marine Corps drill instructor, a fact that Larry Bird credited in his book Drive: The Story of My Life as an important reason for Bird's own strong work ethic.

* Boston Celtics Forward Larry Bird is awarded NBA Most Valuable Player Award

* Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year – Larry Bird, NBA Finals NBA basketball

* In Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's collaboration Oath of Fealty ( 1982 ), much of the action is set in and around Todos Santos, an arcology built in a burnt-out section of Los Angeles that has evolved a separate culture from the city around it.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart.

A direct brain-to-computer interface is a valuable, but expensive, luxury in Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's novel Oath of Fealty.

In the final lap of the 2001 Cracker Barrel Old Country Store 500, Harvick beat Jeff Gordon by. 006 seconds, the same margin that Earnhardt had won over Bobby Labonte at the same race a year prior, and the images of Earnhardt's longtime gas man, Danny " Chocolate " Myers, crying after the victory, Harvick's tire-smoking burnout on the frontstretch with three fingers held aloft outside the driver's window, and the Fox television call by Mike Joy, Larry McReynolds, and Darrell Waltrip, concluding with " Gordon got loose, but he ( Harvick ) is gonna get him though, it's Harvick!

One example this is Lawnchair Larry, who attached helium filled weather balloons to a lawn chair and floated far above Long Beach, California, in July 1982.

Lord and Lady Mountbatten with Muhammad Ali JinnahNotwithstanding the self-promotion of his own part in Indian independence — notably in the television series The Life and Times of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Mountbatten of Burma, produced by his son-in-law Lord Brabourne and Dominique Lapierre, and Larry Collins's Freedom at Midnight ( of which he was the main quoted source ) — his record is seen as very mixed ; one common view is that he hastened the independence process unduly and recklessly, foreseeing vast disruption and loss of life and not wanting this to occur on the British watch, but thereby actually causing it to occur, especially in Punjab and Bengal.

* The Super Sky Cycle is a registered motorcycle constructed by Larry Neal.

However, the Vitagraph film-makers continued to be a little uneasy with the device, as a true POV shot is introduced by an explanatory intertitle, " What they saw in the house across the court " in Larry Trimble's Jean and the Waif, made at the end of 1910.

" Flash Crowd " is a 1973 English language novella by science fiction author Larry Niven, one of a series about the social consequence of inventing an instant, practically free transfer booth that could take one anywhere on Earth in milliseconds.

On July 7, 2004, Hackman gave a rare interview to Larry King, in which Hackman announced that he had no future film projects lined up and believes his acting career is over.

* 1977 – Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories ( SDL ) by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates.

Kemp briefly served on the board of Oracle Corporation, CEO is friend Larry Ellison, in 1996, but resigned when he ran for Vice President ; he was named to the board of Six Flags, Inc. in December 2005.

Kenyon's legacy in the field of excavation technique and ceramic methodology is attested to by Larry G. Herr, one of the directors of the Madaba Plains Project.

A kill file ( also killfile, bozo bin or twit list ) is a per-user file used by some Usenet reading programs ( originally Larry Wall's rn ) to discard summarily ( without presenting for reading ) articles matching some unwanted patterns of subject, author, or other header lines.

Larry Wall ( born September 27, 1954 ) is a computer programmer and author, most widely known for his creation of the Perl programming language in 1987.

# Larry is always by definition right about how Perl should behave.

# Larry is allowed to change his mind about any matter at a later date, regardless of whether he previously invoked Rule 1.

Larry is always right, even when he was wrong.

Larry Niven is also known in science fiction fandom for " Niven's Law ": There is no cause so right that one cannot find a fool following it.

Known Space is the fictional setting of some dozen science fiction novels and several collections of short stories written by author Larry Niven.

The Kzinti " crossed-over " in to the Star Trek universe in the animated episode " The Slaver Weapon ", which was written by Larry Niven and is adapted from Niven's own short story " The Soft Weapon ".

The programming language for MUSH, usually referred to as " MUSHcode " or " softcode " ( to distinguish it from " hardcode "-the language in which the MUSH server itself is written ) was developed by Larry Foard.

* A Mars Direct scheme is used in Larry Niven's novel Rainbow Mars.