13Sports director Dave Calabro talked with Bob Hammel as the two remembered Coach Bob Knight, who died Wednesday at age 83.
Knight asked Hammel to write his biography, which climbed to No. 2 on the New York Times Best Sellers list.
Hammel was the sports director at the Bloomington Herald newspaper and he said the coach cared for his players well beyond basketball."He truly wanted them to leave with a degree," said Hammel."I mean, he wanted it to the point that he insisted on it. He kept a very close track of whether they were in class. In fact, his recruiting, he would actually recruit the mother. The dad always thought in basketball terms.
"It was No. 2 on the New York Times Best Sellers list for a few weeks and never got to No. 1. I think I failed him there," Hammel said with a laugh.
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