The Bob Knight Media Circus

ESPN created a big stir out of the whole "lifting his chin up" situation. While they claimed it wasn't really a big deal, they kept bringing it up during every single ESPN show from Cold Pizza to PTI to QF to ATH to SC to Mike and Mike. This was probably the biggest much-ado-about-nothing since the Janet Jackson "wardrobe malfunction".

Having said all that however, it was interesting to see how almost all the ESPN basketball analysts went into bobble-head mode and agreed with Bob Knight. Jay Bilas desperately tried to defend Knight by reciting text he remembered from his law school text books. Is basketball coaching a "good old boys" network? This is sad...

Only two people on ESPN's air dared to question Knight on this: Doug Gotlieb and Skip Bayless, both of whom are not afraid to speak their mind, but some could argue that they like to take the opposing view for the sake of argument. But Doug Gotlieb was the only basketball insider to "dare to question" Knight on this. Skip is a reporter, not a former coach/player...