Larry Gordon (other)
Larry Gordon was an American football player. Larry Gordon may also refer to: *Larry Gordon (basketball) *Larry Gordon (ice hockey) *Larry Gordon (musician) (1945-2021), American musician *Larry Darnell Gordon, perpetrator of the St. Joseph courthouse shooting See also *Lawrence Gordon (other) Lawrence Gordon may refer to: * Lawrence Gordon (producer) Lawrence Gordon (born March 25, 1936) is an American producer and motion picture executive. He specializes in producing action-oriented films and other genres. Some of his most popula ...

Larry Gordon
Larry Gordon (July 8, 1954 – June 25, 1983) was an American football linebacker who played seven seasons in the National Football League for the Miami Dolphins. A member of the Dolphins' Silver Anniversary team, he was in the starting lineup from his rookie season until his death. During his college football career at Arizona State he played alongside future All-American and Dallas Cowboys linebacker, Bob Breunig. Together, they are viewed as the best linebacker tandem to ever play the position at ASU. In 1976 Gordon won the Tommy Fitzgerald Award as the Dolphins' outstanding rookie in training camp. He would be named the team's outstanding LB twice in his career. In 1978 Gordon intercepted 3 passes in a 23-6 rout of the Raiders that clinched a wildcard berth for the Dolphins. In 1979 he set a team playoff record for the most fumble recoveries in a game (2 vs Pittsburgh). Gordon collapsed while jogging in the desert outside Phoenix, Arizona on June 25, 1983, and died about ...
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Larry Gordon (basketball)
Larry Rayshawn Gordon (born April 18, 1987) is a retired American professional basketball player. He played college basketball for Cal Poly Pomona before playing professionally in the Netherlands, Austria, Germany, South Korea, Kazakhstan, Israel and Portugal. College career He is a graduate of the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, getting his Bachelor of Science degree in Kinesiology with an emphasis in Exercise Science. He also played his collegiate career at Cal Poly Pomona from 2005 to 2009, earnings several honors. Became the first freshman Men's Basketball player to receive Freshman of the year honors in 2005–2006 season. He is currently the All-Time Leading Rebounder in school history as well as the 2nd All-Time leading scorer is school history. During his senior year, he led his team to the NCAA Men's Division II Basketball Championship Game for the first time in school history and was named an NABC All-American to become just the 4th All-American in Men ...
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Larry Gordon (ice Hockey)
The Edmonton Oilers are a professional ice hockey team based in Edmonton. The Oilers compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Pacific Division (NHL), Pacific Division of the Western Conference (NHL), Western Conference. They play their home games at Rogers Place, which opened in 2016. Their current head coach Jay Woodcroft was hired on February 11, 2022, and Ken Holland was named as the general manager on May 7, 2019. The Oilers are one of two NHL franchises based in Alberta, the other being the Calgary Flames; their close proximity to each other has led to a fierce rivalry known as the "Battle of Alberta". The Oilers were founded in 1971 by Bill Hunter (ice hockey), W. D. "Wild Bill" Hunter and Dr. Chuck Allard, and played its first season in 1972–73 WHA season, 1972 as one of the twelve founding franchises of the major professional World Hockey Association (WHA). They were originally intended to be one of two WHA Alberta teams, along with the Calgary Br ...
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Larry Gordon (musician)
Lawrence Edward Gordon (July 3, 1945 – November 9, 2021) was an American singer, teacher, composer and conductor, based in Marshfield, Vermont. He was the co-founder and director of numerous musical ensembles, most notably the Onion River Chorus in 1978 and Village Harmony in 1989. Gordon has been credited with bringing American shapenote music, a predominantly Southern tradition from the mid-19th century on, back to New England in the 1970s. Early life and political activism Larry Gordon was born in Rome, Georgia, on July 3, 1945, to Jewish parents who were living in the American South to work for the USO during WWII. Gordon's father was William "Bill" Gordon (né Wolf Gordonovich), an activist in left-wing causes born in Shumskas (a Jewish shtetl in what was then Poland). His mother was Helen Gordon (née Appelman), after whom the Helen Gordon Child Development Center at Portland State University is named. He had two siblings, the historian Linda Gordon and Lee David Gordon ...
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