Dark Knight: Bob Knight’s Last Days at Indiana
Edge of Sports
Dave Zirin / The Nation
4.8 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2018
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I was asked as a journalist to find out why kids were leaving IU. |
| 0:04.3 | And what I uncovered, what we were seeing was just the tip of the iceberg. |
| 0:09.7 | And I think one thing, a lot of people, as I watch the reaction on Twitter, |
| 0:14.7 | everybody focuses on Neil Reed and grabbing the student by the arm and all these little things. |
| 0:19.8 | And what they fail to kind of digest is that even the university came to the conclusion |
| 0:27.3 | that he was making people scared within the university. |
| 0:41.7 | Welcome to the Edge of Sports Podcast. |
| 0:44.7 | I'm Dave Zyron, and this week I'm feeling healthy. |
| 0:47.3 | This week we speak to Robert Abbott. |
| 0:53.6 | He is the producer, director, and narrator of the new ESPN 30 for 30 film, The Last Days of Night, which is about Indiana basketball |
| 0:57.5 | coach Bob Knight's flammable final days as head coach over at IU. This is for my money the best |
| 1:04.6 | 30 for 30 that they've done, and I cannot wait to break it down with Robert Abbott, while also not |
| 1:10.3 | trying to do too many spoilers, because people should watch this film when it airs on December 11th. |
| 1:15.4 | I also have some choice words about Colin Kaepernick and the rejection of Colin Kaepernick by the Washington football team. |
| 1:23.3 | I've got Just Stand Up and Just Sit Down awards, some listener feedback, and more. |
| 1:27.1 | But first, Robert Abbott. |
| 1:34.5 | Robert Abbott, I don't want to reveal too much about the last days of night because I want |
| 1:38.9 | folks to see it on December 11th and ESPN Plus, but I'm hoping you could give us first and foremost some background, |
| 1:46.4 | because you really could have done any 30 for 30 at this point. You'd already done one previously. |
| 1:52.4 | How and why did you come to Bob Knight as a subject matter? |
| 1:56.3 | Well, basically, Dave, I had pitched Catholics versus Convicts, which I wanted to direct. |
| 2:04.1 | And John Dahl, who actually started with me at ESPN, kind of, excuse me, CNN, back in |
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