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'Legend' Tara VanDerveer Winning in Her Own Way

In the women's basketball cult of personality, Connecticut's Geno Auriemma is the yeller, stalking the sidelines. Tennessee's Pat Summitt comes with the icy glare of disapproval and expectation. Stanford's Tara VanDerveer is the professor. Studious and detailed, reserved and competitive, VanDerveer has carved out one of...

NCAA Ultimate Hypocrite in Forstmann, IMG Gambling Case

Not long ago, the NCAA was strong-arming newspapers, and I use that word only because blackmail might be a legal term. The NCAA would go to newspaper offices demanding that the sports sections stop running betting lines. If not, their reporters might not get press passes to important games. That's how big of a scourge,...

New FOX Sports Boss Eric Shanks Dreams Big Dreams

Eric Shanks has had barely a week behind the desk as the new president of FOX Sports, but that's apparently long enough for him to develop a wish list. "Wouldn't it be great if there was a time where when you thought of FOX, you thought of every professional final, the Triple Crown (and) the biggest of the big?" Shanks...

Lars Ulrich, Coach K, Underwear

I'm still struggling to figure out which is the most disturbing image from Sunday's NCAA basketball. Bobby Knight flopping around in his underwear. Or Lars Ulrich and Coach K joining forces in a Guitar Hero video.Sorry Coach Knight, that's THE Guitar Hero. Knight, Coach K, Roy Williams and Rick Pitino dance around in their...

Pat Knight Gets 12-Year-Old Boy to Tell His Players How to Make Layups

We knew that Bobby Knight was good for some interesting motivational tactics during his coaching career. Apparently his son can do the same.Pat Knight, who replaced his dad at Texas Tech, used a 12-year-old boy to help make a point to his basketball team.Texas Tech was struggling to make layups against Stephen F. Austin to...

Bobby Knight News From the Web

05/20/12 No one in control: The far-reaching fallout of the... Source: The Post and Courier - Charleston SC wade spees/staff The Good Neighbor Center, a nonprofit shelter in North Charleston, has been named as a defendant in six civil lawsuits filed since January.
05/05/12 Bob Hill | Hitting the mute button after a season of... Source: The Courier-Journal - Louisville KY Does perpetual host Verne Lundquist not remind you of your genial Uncle Bill: Oh my goodness.
05/01/12 Roy Hodgson: New England manager top secret Source: Daily Mail - London - UK As a Crystal Palace supporter as a boy, I liked watching Johnny McNichol and later Johnny Byrne.

Background on Bobby knight

Robert Montgomery "Bob" Knight (born October 25, 1940) is a retired American basketball coach. Nicknamed "The General", Knight won 902 NCAA Division I men's college basketball games, second all-time to his former player, Mike Krzyzewski.

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