Brian Murphy

1 week ago | fredericknewspost.com | Brian Murphy

Terry Louise Fisher, who forged a powerhouse creative team with fellow TV writer-producer Steven Bochco, with credits including the popular series “L.A. Law,” before they parted ways in a legal clash over salary and authority, died June 10 in Laguna Hills, California. She was 79. The death was confirmed by a cousin, Sharone Rosen, but no other details were given. kAm|D] u:D96C C646:G65 96C 7:CDE t>>J pH2C5[ :? `hgd[kDEC@?8m k^DEC@?8m2D 2 AC@5F46C 2?5 HC:E6C @?

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Brian Murphy

The sound of breaking glass awoke Frank Morris in the early hours of Dec. 10, 1964, at his shoe repair shop - one of the few thriving Black-owned businesses in the eastern Louisiana town of Ferriday, near the Mississippi River. A gang of suspected Ku Klux Klan members stormed the one-story building and splashed gasoline over the workbenches and on Morris. A match was lit. The 51-year-old Morris ran out the back door of Frank’s Shoe Service, where he lived in a spare room.

2 weeks ago | fredericknewspost.com | Brian Murphy

Frederick Forsyth, a mega-selling British novelist of political thrillers, cunning spy craft and globe-trotting intrigue who used his own background as a foreign correspondent to inspire such page-turners as “The Day of the Jackal,” “The Odessa File” and “The Dogs of War,” died June 9 at his home in Buckinghamshire, a county in southeast England. He was 86. The literary agency Curtis Brown, which represented him, announced the death but did not cite a cause.

4 weeks ago | thesportsleader.com | Brian Murphy

These are the times that try Buster Posey’s soul. Well, maybe that’s a tad dramatic for late May baseball. But you gotta grab a reader in the Jock Blog, lest he or she doom scroll somewhere else. Today’s focus is the task facing the new Giants president of baseball operations. He rode a wave of good vibes with his hiring in October of 2024. And his winter signing of Willy Adames was a can-do move, shoring up shortstop and making San Francisco look like a destination again.

1 month ago | thesportsleader.com | Brian Murphy

I’m a Brock Purdy fan. His story is undeniable, from 262 to leading the Super Bowl in overtime. He’s polite, professional, gritty. His biggest material want in this crass market economy is a bass fishing boat. His new contract is that most elusive of things in today’s hot take world: reasonable. So how is a guy supposed to make a Jock Blog about all that?