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Hot Topic: Bully for Bob Knight, or just a bully?

Now that Bob Knight apparently has left the coaching scene for the last time, the sports world again is mulling an existential debate not unlike a central question in the nation's lively presidential campaigns: Whether it is better (as Machiavelli himself asked) to be feared or loved.

Knight clearly put himself in the former camp of pre-emptive strikes and non-negotiable policy-making. His...

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