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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...

Bobby Knight will be on O'Reilly tonight....8pm This is guy is always an interesting interview. You have to say that he speaks his mind, regardless.