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To understand Bob Knight solely as a hero or a villain is to miss the instructive value of his life.The passing of Bob Knight invites us to navigate the intricate labyrinth of a legacy, replete with towering achievements and troubling missteps. Here was a man who commanded both the basketball court and the cultural conversation with a blend of brazen certainty and complicated human frailty. He was, in essence, a vivid embodiment of the American paradox: a culture that idolizes both rugged individualism and collective accomplishment.Bob Knight was nothing if not a traditionalist. In an era awash with moral relativism,...

Bob Knight, one of the most legendary college basketball coaches of all time, died Wednesday at the age of 83. Knight was a three-time national champion and made five Final Fours, all during his 29-season tenure at Indiana. Knight's first head coaching job was with Army in 1965; he took the Hoosiers job in 1971, where he stayed until 2000. He then coached Texas Tech from 2001-2008. "It is with heavy hearts that we share that Coach Bob Knight passed away at his home in Bloomington surrounded by his family," his website said. "We are grateful for all the thoughts...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Iconic as he was controversial, Bob Knight for decades embodied the spirit of basketball in a corner of the world mad about it. His hard-nosed, fundamentals-driven style and attention to detail became deeply rooted in the culture of the sport for basketball fans in southern Indiana and elsewhere, his admirers standing as ardently by him as his critics often chastised him.

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is headed back out on the campaign trail with rallies Friday in West Virginia and Indiana. In Indiana, he'll have help from Hall of Fame basketball coach Bob Knight, who coached the Indiana University Hoosiers. Trump teased Knight's appearance in a tweet, saying: "Don't tell anyone (big secret), but I will be bringing Coach Bobby Knight to Indiana. He's been a supporter right from the beginning of the Greatest Political Movement in American History!" Trump, Knight and Vice President Mike Pence will be stumping Friday for Republican Mike Braun, who is running against Sen. Joe...

Famed basketball coach Bobby Knight might be the one to call corporate executives and warn them of potential punitive tariffs if they move jobs overseas in a Trump administration, Donald Trump suggested Monday evening. "I'll have Bobby Knight make the call," Trump said in a campaign stop in Warren, Mich., alongside the former Indiana college hoops coach. "I think he could make the call better than anybody," the Republican nominee said.

Ted Cruz called a basketball hoop a ‘basketball ring’ while recreating scene from Hoosiers https://t.co/r49zSp3sgK pic.twitter.com/APYXent9Xf— For The Win (@ForTheWin) April 27, 2016 @ForTheWin Did he successfully throw the puck through it?— wormbolt (@wormbolt) April 27, 2016 @ForTheWin @RealGlenMacnow No wonder Bobby Knight endorsing Trump.— Robert DeSandre (@carigi12) April 27, 2016 @ForTheWin @ShaneWatch Weirdest man who ever lived.— Kris Pigna (@KrisPigna) April 27, 2016

Willie Robertson...“Under a Ted Cruz administration, every home is going to have a basketball ring, a football net and a hockey glove,” Robertson told host Stuart Varney. The Texas senator was in Knightsville, Indiana, at the gym where the movie “Hoosiers” was filmed. Cruz referenced how much he loved Hoosiers and added, “The amazing thing is, that basketball ring in Indiana, it's the same height as it is in New York City and every other place in this country.”

Donald Trump scored a major endorsement from a very beloved Indiana hero, Hoosier basketball coach Bobby Knight. The endorsement serves to give an important boost to help Trump win the state in his march to the nomination. But on CNN Tonight with Don Lemon Thursday when asked to respond to critics that suggest Trump was not a real conservative Knight admitted, “You know, I'm not sure what a conservative is.” “I don't know whether a conservative is a guy that goes to bed too early or maybe doesn't sleep long enough or just what the hell he might be,” the...

It looks like Donald Trump got what he wanted — former Indiana Hoosiers coach Bobby Knight will be hitting the road with him on Wednesday. Trump in recent days has been talking up the idea that the famously hot-headed coach would back him, saying on Saturday that his endorsement would be a big get. “Tough, strong, smart. I would like to get that for Indiana, I’ll tell you what. To me, that would be a great endorsement," he said over the weekend, adding on Monday in Rhode Island that he hoped to win his support. Meanwhile, Knight, who is known...

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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – Donald Trump will return to the Hoosier State this week ahead of the Indiana primary. Trump will speak at Indiana Farmer’s Coliseum at the Indiana State Fairgrounds on Wednesday. He’ll be joined be a special guest, former IU basketball coach Bob Knight.

Aren't southern gentlemen supposedly chivalrous? Yet Joe Scarborough, son of the Florida Panhandle, today exploited Mika Brzezinski's less-than-encyclopedic knowledge of sports to lure his Morning Joe colleague into agreeing that the famous former coach of the University of Indiana basketball team was none other than . . . Bear Bryant. The jumping-off point was Joe's wearing of a red sweater today, which as a running gag he claimed was in solidarity with the workers of the world on this, May Day. But when Indiana Senator Evan Bayh, a Hillary supporter, came on toward the end of the show, Scarborough pressed...

LUBBOCK, Texas -- A spokesman for Texas Tech athletic director Gerald Myers says men's basketball coach Bob Knight has resigned, effective immediately.

© 2005 - The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal BY JEFF WALKER ASSOCIATED PRESS Texas Tech students will have the opportunity to go to night school. In this case, though, they'll be going to Knight School. ESPN is expected to announce today that 16 Tech students will be chosen to compete in a reality show called "Knight School" that will be filmed in Lubbock, Tech officials said. The winner, chosen by Tech head coach Bob Knight and his coaching staff, will have an opportunity to join the Red Raiders as a walk-on for the 2006-07 season. Knight said the concept has been talked...

Knight also doesn't think much of Mike Davis, his successor with the Hoosiers. Indiana missed the NCAA Tournament for the second straight year, and the Hoosiers lost in the first round of the NIT. "They created that for themselves," Knight said in the Sporting News Radio interview. "The guy that's coaching there [Mike Davis] is a guy that I told Pat [Knight, his son and assistant coach] we were going to replace at the end of the season. There's no way that I would have kept the guy any longer than that. [But] That's their [Indiana] problem."

DENVER (AP) A public relations consultant who helped Indiana University during a seven-month controversy over former basketball coach Bob Knight is now working for the University of Colorado Board of Regents. Christopher Simpson of Williamsburg, Virginia, will initially be paid 24-thousand dollars, plus 350-dollars an hour for any follow-up work. Simpson will help the Regents cope with the fallout from a football recruiting scandal, and the controversy surrounding ethnic studies professor Ward Churchill. Simpson says he hopes to shift the focus of C-U's image away from controversy. Simpson is a former Washington Times reporter and was vice president of communications...

Hearing on release of Knight firing report likely to be delayed Associated Press BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - A judge likely will delay a hearing set for next week that was to determine whether Indiana University must release a report that led to the firing of former basketball coach Bob Knight, court officials said. Special Judge Jane Spencer Craney of Morgan County was scheduled to conduct the hearing Wednesday in Monroe Circuit Court. But it might have to be postponed to an unspecified date because of criminal case in her own Morgan Superior Court, court officials said. Craney was hearing the case...

Well, now we know who really runs Texas Tech University, don't we? Anything else, perhaps, that coach Bob Knight would like the administration to do? Wash his car? Buff his posterior? With an adoring ovation ringing in his ears, Knight was back on the Texas Tech sideline against Baylor on Tuesday night. Knight's original "five-day suspension" for verbally assaulting chancellor David Smith had lasted, at best, maybe four hours. "I regret that the situation turned out the way it did," Knight said in a statement released by the university. "I look forward to finishing this season in a strong fashion,...

Knight's outburst draws reprimand Raider fans throw support behind coach BY PATRICK GONZALES A-J SPORTS EDITOR Texas Tech head basketball coach Bob Knight was on the sidelines Tuesday night — a day after a highly publicized verbal spat with the university's chancellor threatened to put another dent in his coaching career. After a day of deliberation among school officials, Tech athletic director Gerald Myers said in a press release distributed Tuesday afternoon that appropriate personnel action had been taken in regard to Knight. No suspension was involved, Myers said, but the action did include a reprimand. Knight was greeted with...

Knight, Smith in public spat BY PATRICK GONZALES A-J SPORTS EDITOR A popular Lubbock lunch spot was the scene Monday of a verbal dust up between Texas Tech Chancellor David Smith and head basketball coach Bob Knight. Knight and Tech athletic director Gerald Myers did not return repeated telephone calls Monday seeking comment. Smith would say only that the university will have a comment at the appropriate time. ``I can't comment on it. It's a personnel matter,'' Smith said. An eyewitness to the incident gave the following account to The Avalanche-Journal: Smith was having lunch with another Tech employee at...