During his playing years, Larry Bird didn’t just beat his opponents — he stripped away their pride with relentless trash talk ...

The Basketball Hall of Famer enjoyed a successful coaching and front-office career after his playing days. He retired at age 35 because of a back injury that still plagues him. Bird went on to become ...

Grew up in the town of French Lick, Indiana. Nicknamed the “Hick from French Lick” and “Larry Legend.” Wore the number 33 on his basketball jersey in high school, college and with the Boston Celtics.

Larry Bird’s journey from a small-town kid in French Lick, Indiana, to an NBA icon is nothing short of amazing. Before dazzling fans on the court, he worked regular jobs—like collecting garbage—to ...

Larry Bird is reportedly ending his run as president of the Indiana Pacers, and what a run it was. In fact, it lasted two tenures. But the idea of Bird stepping aside is not a huge shock. He turned 60 ...

When Larry Bird famously dropped out of Indiana University Bloomington, he retreated to his hometown of French Lick to slosh through the mud and haul garbage for the local municipality. At that point, ...

Indiana State's 1979 team reunited in Terre Haute to talk about Larry Bird, that season and author Keith O'Brien's new book on the topic, "Heartland." Coach Bill Hodges, eight players and even an ...

More than three decades after his final game—a pain-wracked cameo in the United States’s gold-medal win over Croatia in the 1992 Olympics—Larry Bird retains a mythopoeic quality. Michael Jordan and ...