"A Knight One Day"

Stumbled upon a "30 For 30" about Bobby Knight. As a staff photographer for The National Sports Daily, I was dispatched to Bloomington, IN to make a portrait of Calbert Cheaney. Someone at The National set it up through the Indiana SID. A pre-practice portrait. Though this session was planned, I'd been warned coach Knight was moody, and could make my drive from Chicago a wasted one. Cheaney was quiet, polite, and did anything I asked. The session ran maybe 20 minutes. I went about my business but felt Knight's glare and impatience a time or two. This was 1991, the same year a couple of Knight's verbal tirades against his team were recorded and used in the "30 For 30" program. I got the portrait and got out alive.

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