— -- As Bob Knight moved one win closer to catching Dean Smith, his temper flared once again, when he used hishand to push a player's chin during a timeout, as if to make himlook the coach in the ...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Indiana fans always waited for Bob Knight to lose his temper. It was as much a part of Hoosiers basketball under Knight as the wins. On Feb. 23, 1985, it didn’t take long.

Sure, Bob Knight still gets fired up, his mood sometimes as dark as his black Texas Tech sweater. A coach can't turn around a college basketball team without yelling occasionally. Still, the man with ...

"His persistent and troubling pattern of behavior has led me to only one conclusion," Brand said at the press conference announcing Knight's firing Sept. 10, 2000. When Bob Knight was fired 25 years ...