Knight vs. the Hall of Fame

NCAA men’s basketball’s winningest and most infuriated head coach, Bob Knight, has picked a new enemy in the basketball Hall of Fame.  Knight is apparently so upset at the basketball Hall of Fame for not admitting Dick Vitale that he has taken to the least likely of Bobby intimidation tactics- a letter campaign.
 

Knight has also convinced other famous college hoops coaches to write letters on Vitale’s behalf.  John Wooden, Dean Smith, Jim Boeheim, Lute Olsen, and Mike Krzyzewski have all, for some reason, hurriedly taken up the cause for Vitale. 
 

Who would have ever thought that Knight and Vitale would team up to take on the Hall of Fame?  One is the personification of rage and the other is the uptime of unabashed life-loving. 
 

This is really the most unlikely pairing since any cop movie ever.  Or since Dick Cheney had a daughter.  
 

Even if they don’t come written in magazine cut-outs, a letter from Knight should get your attention.  Just picture Knight calmly and rationally sitting down at his desk on the Texas Tech campus, pulling out a sheet of paper from the drawer and penning a congenial letter with the sore wound at the tip of his finger. Pretty convincing, I think.
 

If you like Bobby when he uses his words, you can check him out live by getting NCAA basketball tickets at your source for non-violent conflict resolution, StubHub.com.
       

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Kansas Moves into No. 2

Both the USA Today and AP NCAA Basketball Polls ranked the Kansas Jayhawks as the second best college basketball team in the nation.  The Jayhawks have taken advantage of the recent failings of Florida, UCLA and North Carolina to move up the polls, possibly securing a No. 1 seed by the time the brackets come out. 
 

The Jayhawks are on an 8-game wining streak, including a come-from-behind victory over 15th ranked Texas, and a close one at Oklahoma.
 

UCLA lost to Washington on Saturday, leaving room for the Jayhawks to swoop on in, and Florida has been looking terrible at the worst possible time. North Carolina drops to No. 8 in both polls after losing at Georgia Tech, but beating Duke.
 

The conference tournaments will be the final time for teams to jockey for position in the postseason.  Of course, StubHub.com will be your destination for all the best NCAA tournament tickets, no matter who gets the No. 1 seed.


 

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