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...marketplace? Not necessarily, says TIME editor-at-large Daniel Okrent. "A lot of our concerns may be based on antiquated ideas of local ownership - even in small markets, there is very little in terms of truly localized ownership, and there hasn't been for years. Publishing giants like Knight-Ridder and Tribune already own the bulk of nation's papers." In other words, since we're already firmly ensconced in corporate culture, we probably won't notice much of a difference...
...anger. Why is he so angry? It's a question that springs to mind when I look at an image of Bobby Knight in full fury. Apparently it's one that Indiana University's officials didn't bother to ask themselves before they allowed this dinosaur to remain as the school's basketball coach despite a well-documented history of abusing players, coaches, administrators and anyone else who just happened to be there. Oh, yeah, he's a successful coach. He deserves another chance, they say, based on his record and his promise to control his temper...
...need motivation. It's a particularly important aspect of sports because the tiniest of margins often separate the winners from the losers. Yet with Knight, we're not talking about a constructive approach to making people perform by challenging them on their positions or on their failures in life. Knight does it to denigrate. Doesn't Indiana know that universities are supposed to be about how you teach? Teaching is about building confidence, about making people feel better about what they do and who they...
That's why the dichotomy between Bob Knight and my college coach, UCLA's legendary John Wooden, could not be greater. One thing that really stands out about Knight is that it's always about him. He's a lot like Dennis Rodman, with his calculated self-promotion. John Wooden was the antithesis of the anger, the scowl, the selfishness. With Coach Wooden, an Indiana native, life was always fun, always upbeat, always positive, always about the team, always about the greatness of the game. Sadly, you don't get any sense of that from Knight. There...
Compare that to Knight's psychological torture chamber. No wonder Indiana has stumbled so often in the National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament. No wonder great players--Larry Bird, Isiah Thomas, George McGinnis--don't last in Bloomington. Why would anyone even go there? Wooden inspired confidence, which he considered essential to achieving peak performance. He taught us that the journey to the top of the pyramid was the result of a lifetime of preparation. While Wooden fostered hope, Knight represents the death of hope, the stifling control freak. Look at his coaching style: "Get the ball, and look over here...