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Brown turned 40 last September and hasn’t really been the same since. He frequently shows he’s slipping by talking way too much about his last moment of glory in sports (winning MVP honors in the Dallas Cowboys 2002 media football game in the Alamodome by throwing for four touchdowns, running for two others and intercepting two passes on defense). Brown also was stripped of his Man Card after admitting he subscribes to US magazine and has a man crush on Prince (although he swears the singer-turned-symbol-turned-singer stopped existing to him after the release of Sign of the Times). Before selling out and doing radio, Brown was a self-important journalist who worked 10 years for the Associated Press (1988-97) covering news including the gubernatorial terms of Ann Richards and George W. Bush as well as 42 of the 51-day Branch Davidian standoff in Waco in 1993. Brown has worked for the Dallas Morning News since 1998 – all of those years covering Texas – except for 2001 and 2002, when he moved to Dallas to cover the Cowboys. Brown calls those 5-11 seasons at Valley Ranch the “Lenny and Squiggy Years”  because of the strategic thinking of Jerry Jones and Dave Campo. Brown won the prestigious Headliner Award for Sports Reporting in 1998 and was named the top young writer in all of the Associated Press in 1992, an award he received from then President Bush (41 not 43). Brown has covered the Super Bowl, Masters, Wimbledon, U.S. Open (golf and tennis), the NBA Finals, the Final Four, college football’s national title game, the PGA Tour and the Stanley Cup Finals. Brown went to SMU where he tried to play tennis but failed miserably after winning a state championship at Loy Norrix High School in Kalamazoo, Mich., and thinking he was Andre Agassi.