Larry O'Brien was an American politician who served as the commissioner of the NBA from 1975 to 1984. O'Brien was born in 1917 in Springfield, Mass. — the same city in which the sport of ...

Edmond O'Brien and Jan Sterling during the filming of a 1956 adaptation of George Orwell's 1984 Harry Todd / Fox Photos / Getty Images. In recent years, some conservative American groups have ...

In 1984, O’Brien was inducted into the Ohio State Athletics Hall of Fame. He has also been inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame and the International Swimming Hall of Fame.

Ron O’Brien, perhaps the most successful diving coach in United States history, who guided Greg Louganis to Olympic gold in two events at the Summer Games in 1984 and again in 1988, died on Nov ...