Shatel: Lawrence Phillips remains a magnet, mystery

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Shatel: Lawrence Phillips remains a magnet, mystery

By Tom Shatel / World-Herald sports columnist POSTED: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 2016

Lars Anderson isn’t sure what made him get on a plane for Los Angeles last week.
Twenty years ago, Anderson was the kid from Lincoln, Nebraska, who was working his first cover story for Sports Illustrated. Assignment: go to Nebraska and interview Lawrence Phillips.
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Very good article. Shatel writes perhaps the final chapter of LP's sad, tragic life.
 
That 31 year sentence for assault(s) seemed pretty excessive to me. Homocide is often less than 10 years and they're out. Hard to believe, though, that LP is gone.

 
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