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Article: KNIGHT CRITIC IN TOWN MURRAY SPERBER, AN OUTSPOKEN CRITIC OF BOB KNIGHT AND MAJOR COLLEGE SPORTS, SPEAKS TONIGHT.(SPORTS)
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- The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
- Article date:
- February 20, 2002
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Byline: Tom Mulhern Wisconsin State Journal
Murray Sperber, an English professor at Indiana University, is an unabashed critic of big-time college sports. You might know him as the one who had the temerity to challenge Bob Knight, the school's former men's basketball coach.
"I never criticized Knight as a coach or Knight personally," Sperber said Tuesday. "All I said is Indiana had two sets of rules: One about how faculty and staff should act with students; and no rules for Bob
Knight. I did not understand that and I thought it made the university look ridiculous."
For that thinking, Sperber became the target of abuse and threats by ...