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Ex-PC great Linehan comes home to coach at Brown

PROVIDENCE — He sits in a basketball office in this city where he first found fame.

You can't go home again?

Well, maybe you can.

Even if it's to a different address.

And a new dream.

At least that's what former Providence College basketball great John Linehan is trying to do as a new addition to the Brown basketball staff.

Once upon a time, Linehan owned a couple of winters around here, the 5-foot-9 kid who lit up the Dunk with his irrepressible energy and his great defensive skills. It was the late 1990s, and Linehan had made himself into a great college player, no insignificant thing when you are 5-9 in a basketball world where the cheerleaders were 5-8.