Word: knights
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...KNIGHT: I don't think it's changed. We do different things on offense or defense. In terms of teaching the game, it's very similar to what it was way back when. When I first started, there were things I thought were really important in the game: the approach; reading defense when you're on offense; handling the basketball; good shot selection. The same things are still just as important...
...KNIGHT: I don't think so. I got a lot of favorite losses. Just trying to play well. For me, the best answer is the games we played best over the longest period of time...
Only one day removed from becoming the all-time winningest coach in NCAA men's basketball history, Texas Tech Coach Bob Knight is right back to business as usual. Sure, he fielded a call of congratulations from Detroit Tigers Manager Jim Leyland - as well as from scores of his former players, but he spent most of the day watching film of his Red Raiders eking out a victory over New Mexico on Monday. And he's been watching film of Oklahoma, Texas Tech's next opponent. He took time out from watching film, holding practice, and a January round...
...KNIGHT: I like the game, I always have, really. I liked it as a player, I enjoyed having the opportunity to coach it. It's a game that tests your abilities to see or improvise or adjust or maintain all of those things. And I've enjoyed the opportunity to work with kids. Hopefully, I've helped them become better prepared for whatever's in store for them...
...Peter Knight, a lecturer in American Studies at the University of Manchester who studies conspiracy theories, agrees that "if a major event happens, people want a major cause behind it." But he notices other trends at work in the persistence of Diana conspiracy theories. "Over the past 50 years, there's been a shift from scapegoating minorities - 'the Jews did it, the blacks did it' - to blaming people in power, like the royal family, the government, intelligence agencies. That's always been a bigger theme in the U.S. than in Britain, but Britain, indeed Europe as a whole is following...