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.}

Robert Montgomery Knight as your college president

November 28th, 2006 | Posted by PostmanR

Peeking into the college hoops preview out of the Chicago Tribune, you will find some rather solid Big Ten and top 25 predictions from Skip Myslenski. Then, perhaps buried farther than it should be, this gem of a quote from Bob Knight on what he would do as a college president.

“The first thing I would do is throw out the NCAA rule book. Get rid of the sumbitch. I spoke to the National Press Club in Washington a couple years ago and I took the NCAA guide and I dropped it on the table and it sounded like a rocket going off, it was so heavy. And then, from beneath the podium, I took out the Constitution. I think it had four pages. And I said, `I’m a history major and I ought to know this exactly, but I think this thing has been amended 28 times since 1788.’ And I said, `It’s provided millions of people with the best lifestyle that’s ever existed in the world.’ Then I said, `This sumbitch has been amended 28 times since noon yesterday and nobody still has any idea what’s in it.’ I really believe you could take five pages and you could put all the rules necessary for college sports in five pages. Just list what you can do. Not what you can’t do. What you can do and that’s it.”

What a little sumbitch. (Although, it does seem like quite the logical idea at points, no?)

Apparently, this is one of Bob Knight’s running gags

July 17th, 2006 | Posted by PostmanR

Remember way back in April, when we threw up that Bobby Knight “Golf Your Way” video?

It put us on the Blogosphere map, so to speak. In fact, we’re pretty sure half the people still coming to our site are just stopping by to look at that clip.

Well, in that said video, Bobby liked to do this bit where he’d swear a lot on camera while doing a promo spot. Which, obviously couldn’t be used, but boy, was it ever funny!

Well, here he is again doing that same gag. This time it’s for the Marines.

Have fun out there, kids.

Oh and hey, this is “not safe for work.” There are a few foul words in it. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.