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...Bobby Knight had played a little more at Ohio State 25 years ago, college basketball might be a little seemlier today. By expert accounts, he was a better player than many people remember, though not as good as he thought. The trouble was, his college teammates in 1960 included John Havlicek, Jerry Lucas and Larry Siegfried, who went on in the pros to amass 14 championship rings. Knight began on the bench, and is still on the bench. His space in the Hall of Fame has been fashioned out of pine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: College Basketball's Knight-Errant | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

With one out in the bottom of the ninth, Ray Knight singled off reliever Greg Harris (0-1) and Gonzalez ran for him. Gonzalez went to third when Harris' pickoff throw to first went wild and Harris then walked Terry Kennedy and Jim Dwyer intentionally...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Major League Wrap | 4/7/1987 | See Source »

...winningest pitcher. Montreal Outfielder Tim Raines, the National League batting champion (.334), must wonder whether he has bad breath. So frustrated was Teammate Andre Dawson, he signed a blank contract with the Cubs and is now working for $350,000 less than the Expos offered. World Series Hero Ray Knight cut a similarly shrewd deal while transferring from the champion Mets to the last-place Orioles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Springing for The Check | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

This morning June Jordan and Reed will speak, and this afternoon Davis will appear with Lorna Goodison and Etheridge Knight. Both programs will be held at the Massachusetts College of Art in Roxbury...

Author: By Camille L. Landau, | Title: Black Poets to Speak on Legacy of 1960s | 3/6/1987 | See Source »

...Knight had it all: an Olympic gold medal, two N.C.A.A. championships and an NIT crown. Then came the 1984-85 season. His basketball team, the Indiana Hoosiers, played under .500 in Big Ten competition for the first time in his 14-year reign as coach. Knight began to unravel. He benched his starters, dismissed his leading rebounder and, in a nationally televised game, he flung a chair across the court to protest the officiating. John Feinstein, a canny Washington Post columnist, focuses on the following season, when Knight veered even closer to the edge. Feinstein has no quarrel with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Feb. 23, 1987 | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

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