Win your very own chance to golf with Bobby Knight

April 23rd, 2008 | Posted by PostmanR

I average about two rounds of golf a year. It’s not that I don’t like golf, it’s that the game requires an insane amount of dedication and hours upon hours of frustration for you to get good at it. Even then, a botched putt or errant drive grinds your gears. It’s a never ending battle with yourself. (Just ask Tiger!) And plus, 18 holes takes like what, four hours? Think of how many e-mails I’ll have by the time I step off the course!

So combine all the frustration together for a man like Bobby Knight and you get this. Him golfing, swearing, throwing clubs. (That video will never, ever get old by the way.) So get this: instead of only seeing Bobby toss clubs you can now be in the line of fire. Yes friends, if you got the money for it, you can spring for a round of golf with the general.

As part of his yearly fundraiser for cancer research, Lakewood Ranch resident Dick Vitale is offering the opportunity for a round of golf with Bob Knight and John Havlicek on May 16 at the Lakewood Ranch Golf & Country Club.

Bids for two threesomes will be accepted until 11:59 p.m. Saturday for nine holes with each basketball legend.

Bids start at $10,000 and include 18 holes of golf in the morning, a pre-gala party and the third annual Dick Vitale Gala for Cancer Research that evening at the Ritz-Carlton in Sarasota.

To bid, log on to www.cmarket.com, click on “view auction” and enter “Dick Vitale” in the box for “search item.”

One tip: don’t bring up Indiana if you’re out there on the links with him. He tends to get a bit angry about that.

{HT: Larry Brown Sports.}

Bob Knight sells out, but is it funny?

April 7th, 2008 | Posted by PostmanE

AA has the commercial, of course, and the question is worth asking: Funny? Or not funny? I genuinely can’t decide.

The look Knight gives: funny. The chair throwing nonsense: not funny. Talking car? Funny. Quasi-German accent? Not funny.

SO TORN.

(Also, big hat tip to my girlfriend, who apparently also reads AA now, and with greater efficiency than I. I have no idea what is going on.)

Digger Phelps can’t stop touching Bob Knight

March 17th, 2008 | Posted by PostmanE

Fellow FanHouser Charles Rich has this Red Lasso video of Digger Phelps and Bob Knight analyzing basketball together, if by “analyzing” you mean “Digger touching Bob Knight’s shoulder in a gentle, reassuring, way.” This is one of the weirder portions of Knight’s time on ESPN. Not only did Knight fail to do anything interesting (that is, until Dick Vitale got a bit too friendly last night), Digger and Knight couldn’t be worse matches on camera. Knight is relaxed and hoarse and slouching — Digger is erect, handsy, and tielighter-clad. These two can’t possibly be friends.

In other news, Red Lasso is the best thing to happen to blogs since Youtube. I have no idea how it’s legal, but it apparently is. Yay for murky fair use!

Jeremy Schaap is not pleased

March 14th, 2008 | Posted by PostmanE

Is Bob Knight a member of the media? I can’t decide. He claims he isn’t, but just because someone claims they’re not something doesn’t make it so. For example, if you’re a blog, and you do breaking news and are consistently wrong, you can’t say “oh, I’m not a journalist, so it doesn’t matter.” That’s naughty.

Still, I don’t know if I consider what Digger Phelps does to be “media” in the sense that Bob Knight means when he deals with the media. Clearly, Knight is referring to people who report and analyze and pester him with questions far below his intellectual patience. Digger Phelps does not do that. Digger Phelps wears pink ties and makes obvious statements about basketball. I’m torn here.

Anyway, it doesn’t really matter, because the whole point of this is that Jeremy Schaap still hates Bob Knight. And through Jeremy’s hatred, we all win (HT: AA)

Schaap, on vacation and not upset at missing Knight’s opening night, said: “He has a long way to go before he’s as good as Digger Phelps. And I mean that 100 percent.”

Slam! You’d think that after Knight named his cat Schaap, all would be forgiven. Apparently not.

Bob Knight talks shop with Jay Leno

February 12th, 2008 | Posted by PostmanR

The Bob Knight farewell media tour continued last evening with a stop on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.” (Ha look! Knight showed up in a ref’s shirt with a whistle around his neck!) Some of the stuff within is rehashed, but hey, Jay has to ask him why he stepped down. He would not be doing his job properly if he had not.

Also, Larry the Cable Guy was the previous guest, so he chimed in here and there throughout Knight’s interview. I have a feeling Larry and Bobby left the set and went and shot rabbits just off the 405 up in the mountains after the show. They seem like perfect hunting buddies, no?

Pretty soon, he’ll start referring to Pat Knight as a bastard in a basket

January 7th, 2008 | Posted by PostmanR

So, we both ventured out of our apartments yesterday (on a Sunday!) to catch P.T. Anderson’s There Will Be Blood. Though a bit sluggish throughout the middle, it was also pretty brilliant. And crazy. Reallyfreakinginsane, actually. Its main character, Daniel Plainview, becomes more deranged with the passage of time and seems to only exist for himself as he spirals into disillusionment.

What I’m getting at here is this: I’m fairly certain that if you were to splice this clip of Bob Knight and his grandson into the movie somewhere, I wouldn’t have noticed the difference. Bob Knight: he continues to bring the awesome.

Note: Sorry for the longer YouTube. If you can get this video to work, it cuts all the good parts into one and makes my point much stronger. As it stand now, you probably have no clue what I’m talking about. Which is usually how things go down here anyways.

We interrupt this post-game interview to bring you ‘Gooooo Raaaaaiders’

December 5th, 2007 | Posted by PostmanR

And here you thought Bob Knight was the only asshole associated with Texas Tech.

BTW: I think I just broke the Postmen record for most consecutive quick throwaway posts with five. If you want to read something I actually spent some time on, you can peep my latest CS Weekly joint — which on a scale of 1-10 is like a four.

In which Ted Williams pulls his best Bob Knight

January 15th, 2007 | Posted by PostmanR

I know, I know. We’ve talked, pimped and linked this video way too much in our somewhat short life here on the Interweb. But the similarities here warrant it, trust me.

This is Ted Williams doing a promotional bit, golf club in hand, fist on hip, flexing the club as he swears profusely after a mess up. It’s pretty uncanny to the aforementioned Knight video.

Insert own post ending here with either a joke about Williams in a freezer or Bob Knight and a chair throw. It’s a choose your own adventure!

Also, apologies if this is a widespread video on the Tubes. I have never seen it before.

Weekend Fun: Tardiness is a warm gun

December 23rd, 2006 | Posted by PostmanR

Hi, hello and salutations, everybody.

With E’s connection to the Internet tubes on the fritz, I am here to deliver you some Weekend Fun - albeit a day later than usual.

In just a few hours, the Ohio State-Florida BCS Championship game college basketball game will take place. Should be a real doozy. At this point, I wouldn’t bet against Ohio State, even if the tilt is going down in Gainesville. (Update: I was dead wrong about this one.)
Mr. Bob Knight, a favorite among these parts, is going for the illustrious title of most collegiate basketball wins ever by a men’s coach today at home against Bucknell. For as much ribbing as we’ve done in the past to the man, it’s a well-deserved honor.

Sure he’s a bit of a mean fellow, but he’s also a stellar basketball instructor. Knight lives and breathes the game. For as much ire as he directs your way when you play under him, the General is forever indebted to his players after graduation. Ever need a favor? Bob Knight is there for you. And, according to many knowledgeable sources, he’s about the only guy in the country running a 100 percent clean program. So, yeah for Bob Knight.

Also, don’t forget about all those awesome bowl games this weekend! Why, which ones you ask?

How bout the PapaJohns.com, New Mexico, Armed Forces and Hawaii Bowls all going down today!

I’ll leave you with this video, quite the awe-inspired holiday treat.

(If you noticed, we now have a new header created by yours truly. Just pointing that out. Also, I think all the tweaks are just about done to our new look. Again, just pointing that out. And one last note: we probably won’t start posting full throttle again till Tuesday, with Christmas falling on Monday and all. But perhaps expect a sporadic post or two before then. Perhaps.)

What did the five fingers say to the face?

November 14th, 2006 | Posted by PostmanE

If you haven’t heard about this, sports fans, now you will. Bobby Knight, slightly displeased, as is his wont, calmly asked his player to step off the floor and have a discussion with him about his low quality of play last night … they proceeded to engage in a mature, thoughtful dialogue … one thing led to another … and bam, Mr. Knight and Texas Tech Athletics Media Relations Department are having a pretty rough day at the office.

To be honest, it doesn’t look that bad, but, I mean, he did hit the dude.

Surely, we’ll have plenty of impending opinion on this. In fact, I can already faintly hear the Bring Bobby Back crowd in Indiana sharpening their blades against the decapitated skulls of Mike Davis fans. And surely every collegiate pundit in America will be doing one of two prevailing dances - the macho “Coach Knight will make a man of you” fox-trot, or the “you never touch our frail, innocent, baby-faced, beautiful, sweet-as-the-morning-dew collegiate athletes” jig - any time now. But let’s just enjoy the video while we still can.

And hey, everyone has a temper tantrum here and there, right? Like, after a bad golf shot, maybe.

(Video via the incessantly brilliant The Big Lead.)