Death of Lorn Brown

[jasonpeoria911]

I've never heard of the guy but I guess he did some Bradley broadcasting back in the 70's.

http://www.chicagobreakingsports.com/2010/06/former-sox-bulls-broadcaster-lorn-brown-dies.html

Jason

[Da Coach]

I remember Lorn Brown well. There was a period of time in the early 1970's when 3 different radio stations broadcast the BU basketball games simultaneously. Lorn Brown was a sportscaster in Peoria and he broadcast the Bradley games on one of the radio stations. Shortly after the games began on WMBD exclusively, and Cable TV sports began to grow in the Chicago area, Brown moved to Chicago and began doing the White Sox broadcasts on the new cable network owned by the owners of the White Sox.


Most recently he lived in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and did broadcasts of New Mexico State games-

http://www.lcsun-news.com/las_cruces-sports/ci_15387001

http://www.nmstatesports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=9528&SPID=583&DB_OEM_ID=1900&ATCLID=204964122

Wikipedia-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorn_Brown

[tornado]

I never really knew Lorn, but I have a relative (wife's aunt) who was Mrs. Lorn Brown's close friend.....
and when they prepared to move from Peoria, they had a garage sale and I bought a bunch of old 8mm movie film that was labeled "Bradley basketball"...
when I viewed it, I found it was never-before-seen film of many Bradley games in the Fieldhouse from the mid-1960's....
the film was poor quality, but I gave it to Dave Snell and he has since used much of it in his video presentations before and after the season........
Unfortunately - despite our hopes, there was no film of Chet Walker - and to date nobody has ever uncovered (that I know of) any film of Chet playing in a Bradley uniform...

[houstontxbrave]

I remember him doing the color with Mort Canter on WIRL when I was a kid. Sad to hear RIP.

[real fan]

Mort Cantor and Lorne Brown were a great team together that had some of the best voices on the radio, Mort was like Dave Snell in that he had a passion for Bradley basketball.

[Chico]

Lorn and I had a few brews together while he was in Peoria. A great guy and a guy who always had time to have a chat when he saw our group at Sox games. God speed Lorn.

[wingrider81]

Lorn Brown

Mort Cantor and now Lorne Brown. OUCH. I hope that Dave Snell Is taking good care of himself....