Who is Bob Knight?

American former basketball coach Robert Montgomery ‘Bob’ Knight was born in Orrville, Ohio USA, on 25 October 1940, meaning that Scorpio’s his zodiac sign. Known as ‘The General’, Bob set the record when he retired with 902 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I basketball game wins, while he today holds fifth place; he’s perhaps best known for coaching the Indiana Hoosiers of the NCAA Division I from 1971 through 2000, and also for coaching at Texas Tech from 2001 through 2008.

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Education and early life

Bob was raised in Orrville by his mother and father, about whom he’s shared not so many details because Bob respects their privacy; it’s believed that his father was a basketball coach at a local high school, and his mother a housewife. Because Bob’s yet to speak of having siblings, he’s widely believed to be an only child.

He became interested in playing basketball while attending Orrville High School, and was amongst the best players there; Bob was into several other activities as a teenager, including playing football, and acting with the school’s drama club.

He matriculated in 1958, and then enrolled at Ohio State University, where he played under coach Fred Taylor, who was later inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame; he played for the Ohio Buckeyes as a reserve forward, winning the 1960 NCAA Championship, while they lost to the Cincinnati Bearcats both times in the following two NCAA Championships.

He graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in government and history in 1962.

Bob’s career

Upon graduation, Bob began working at Cuyahoga Falls High School as a junior varsity basketball coach, but in the following year joined the US Army, and was on active duty for two years starting in June 1963, and then in the Army Reserve for four years.

Not long after joining the army, in the second half of 1963, Bob became the head coach of the Army Black Knights; he won 102 games with them, and became known for his ‘explosive temper’.

He joined Indiana University as head coach of their basketball team the Hoosiers in 1971, and won 662 games during the 22 seasons that he spent with them. In the 1972-1973 season, Bob led the Hoosiers to win the Big Ten Championship, and they lost to the University of California, Los Angeles’ Bruins in the Final Four; they won the Big Ten Championship again in the following season, while the seasons 1974-1975 and 1975-1976 saw them win all of their games, making them Big Ten champions two more times. What marked the end of the ‘70s for the Hoosiers was winning the 1979 National Invitation Tournament (NIT).

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Bob and the Hoosiers won the 1981 NCAA tournament, and the 1986 book “A Season on the Brink” by John Feinstein covered Bob and his basketball team. They went on to win the NCAA tournament again in 1987, and a Big Ten Championship in the 1988-1989 season.

The Hoosiers continued to play well in the beginning of the ‘90s, winning the Big Ten Championship in both the 1990-1991 and 1992-1993 seasons, and they competed in the NCAA championship nearly every year for the remainder of the decade.

The sports show “CNN Sports Illustrated” aired an episode on 14 March 2000, in which they covered American film director and producer Robert Abbott’s investigation of Bob choking his former player Burgess Neil Reed in 1997; although Bob denied this, a tape of the practice game was shown, and Bob could indeed have been seen choking Burgess in it. Because of this and similar other incidents related to Bob’s behavior, he was fired from his coaching position on 10 September 2000; the students protested, and thousands of them marched in the streets. Various magazines covered Bob’s firing, including “Sports Illustrated”.

He took the year 2001 off, and in 2002 became the head coach at Texas Tech, leading their Red Raiders to three NCAA Championship appearances and one NIT in his first four years there, even though the Red Raiders hadn’t reached an NCAA Championship since 1996. Bob’s best performance with the Red Raiders was reaching the Sweet Sixteen in 2005.

He revealed that he was retiring on 4 February 2008, and his son Pat Knight became the new head coach of the Red Raiders.

Life after basketball

Bob became a studio analyst for ESPN in 2008, and stayed with them until 2 April 2015, when his contract expired and wasn’t renewed.

It was revealed on 27 February 2019 that Bob had health issues, and while giving a speech on 4 April 2019, Bob showed significant problems with his memory; he’s since been leading a peaceful life with his wife at their home in Bloomington, Minnesota.

Love life and relationships

Bob and his first wife, non-celebrity American Nancy Falk exchanged vows on 17 April 1963, and she gave birth to their two sons Tim and Pat in the following a couple of years; Patrick Clair ‘Pat’ Knight’s today a successful basketball coach and scout.

Bob and his second wife Karen Vieth Edgar married in 1988; she’s a former high school basketball coach, and the two have been together to this day.

Bob hasn’t mentioned other women whom he’s maybe been with, he’s married to his second wife Karen Vieth Edgar as of April 2023, and has two sons with his first wife Nancy Falk.

Interesting facts and hobbies

Bob supported Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, and referred to him as a ‘great defender of the USA’.

Various books besides “A Season on the Brink” have been published about Bob, including Juan Mellen’s “Bob Knight: His Own Man”, Robert P. Sulek’s “Hoosier Honor: Bob Knight and Academic Success at Indiana University” and Steve Alford’s “Playing for Knight: My Six Seasons with Bobby Knight”.

Bob’s made a guest appearance in many movies and TV series, including the 1994 sports movie “Blue Chips”, the 2002 sports film “A Season on the Brink” and the 2003 romantic comedy movie “Anger Management”.

He’s a philanthropist and has donated quite a lot of money to Indiana University, while he’s also raised close to $5 million for their library system.

Height, eyes and wealth

Bob’s age is 82. He has brown eyes and grey hair, is 6ft 4ins (1.96m) tall and weighs around 200lbs (92kgs).

Bob’s net worth’s been estimated at over $15 million, as of April 2023.

Who is Mr. T?

Famous American actor, professional boxer and former bodyguard Mr. T, was born Laurence Tureaud in Chicago, Illinois USA, on 21 May 1952, making Gemini his zodiac sign. He’s appeared in 53 movies and TV series, and is probably still known best for playing Clubber Lang in the critically acclaimed 1982 sports movie “Rocky III”, which Sylvester Stallone wrote, directed and starred in. The film also starred Talia Shire and Burt Young, follows the life of professional boxer Rocky, and won three of its 12 award nominations, including an Oscar nomination for Best Music, Original Song.

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Education and early life

Mr. T was raised alongside his 11 older siblings (seven brothers and four sisters) in Chicago, by their father Nathaniel Tureaud who was a minister, and mother whose name remains undisclosed, but who was a housewife. Mr. T was five when Nathaniel abandoned the family, and he thus changed his name to Lawrence Teo in the same year; aged 18, he changed his name to Mr. T.

He was mostly into playing football, practicing martial arts and wrestling while attending Dunbar Vocational High School; he was his city’s wrestling champion two years in a row. Mr. T matriculated in 1970, and then enrolled at Prairie View A&M University on a football scholarship; he was focused on studying math, but was expelled after only a year.

Before acting

Mr. T began working as a gym instructor when he was 19, and in 1975 joined the US Army’s Military Police Corps; after he was discharged in 1978, he attempted to join the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL) prior to becoming a nightclub bouncer. He’s revealed that he was involved in more than 200 fights while working as a bouncer, was sued numerous times, but won every case.

Mr. T then became a well-known bodyguard, working for wealthy people such as judges, businessmen and politicians; some of these included American singer and actress Diana Ross, the late professional boxer Muhammad Ali, and American actor and moviemaker Levardis Robert Martyn ‘LeVar’ Burton Jr.

He was also often offered to kill people, collect debts, find missing people and track runaway teenagers.

Mr. T’s since appeared in more than 100 commercials, for companies such as Forbes, Blizzard and Snickers.

Roles in movies

Mr. T’s acting career was launched when he was spotted by famous American actor and moviemaker Sylvester Stallone, while competing in the show “America’s Toughest Bouncer”; this was how he was cast to play Clubber Lang in the above mentioned movie “Rocky III”.

Some of Mr. T’s following roles were in the 1983 action comedy “D. C. Cab”, and in 1984 the comedy “The Toughest Man in the World” and the family drama “A Christmas Dream”. In 1987, he voiced Jabberwock in the animated family adventure “Alice Through the Looking Glass”, directed by Andrea Bresciani and Richard Slapczynski, and which starred Janet Waldo, Townsend Coleman and Phyllis Diller; it follows Alice who’s fallen through a mirror, and has found herself in Chessland. Mr. T could then have been seen appearing in the 1990 crime drama “Straight Line”, the 1992 sports video “Best of WrestleMania”, and the 1993 science fiction comedy “Freaked”.

His following notable performance was playing The Wise Janitor in the 2001 comedy “Not Another Teen Movie”, directed by Joel Gallen, and which starred Chyler Leigh, Jaime Pressly and Chris Evans. It’s a parody of various teenage movies, and the film was nominated for five awards.

Mr. T voiced Earl Devereaux in the critically acclaimed 2009 animated adventure comedy “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs”, which won one of its 15 award nominations; this remains his most recent film role.

Roles in TV series

Mr. T’s debut TV series appearance was in a 1982 episode of the comedy “Saturday Night Live”, and he was then cast to play and voice characters in an episode of various series, such as the family comedy “Silver Spoons”, the animated adventure comedy “Alvin & the Chipmunks”, and the family comedy “Diff’rent Strokes”.

From 1983 through 1985, Mr. T starred in his own animated action “Mister T”, created by Martin Pasko and Steve Gerber, and which also starred Cathy Cavadini and Peter Cullen; it follows Mr. T and his gymnastics team as they’re fighting crime together, and the series was nominated for a 1986 Young Artist Award for Best Family Animation Series or Special.

He became famous for playing the lead character B. A. Baracus in the evergreen action crime adventure “The A-Team”, which also starred George Peppard and Dwight Schultz, and aired from 1983 through 1987. The series follows the lives of four Vietnam veterans who’ve been framed with a crime, and won three of its 11 award nominations.

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From 1988 through 1990, Mr. T starred as T. S. Turner in the crime drama “T and T”, created by Michael Hirsch and Elia Katz, and which also starred David Nerman and Alexandra Amini; it follows the life of private detective and former boxer T. S. Turner, and the series was nominated for two awards. Mr. T had only a couple of roles in the ‘90s, playing or voicing characters in an episode or two of the family comedy “Blossom”, the animated adventure comedy “Eek! The Cat” (voice role) and the animated family comedy “Sabrina: The Animated Series” (voice role).

From 2001 through 2003, he voiced Bongo in the English version of the animated family drama “Pecola”, and the remainder of the decade heard him voice characters in an episode of the animated family comedies “House of Mouse”, “The Simpsons” and “Johnny Bravo”.

Mr. T’s most recent TV series role has been playing a supporting character in the 2014 episode “Gary’s Big Break?” of the comedy “The Comeback Kids”; even though inactive in the film industry for nearly 10 years now, Mr. T hasn’t officially retired.

Other credits

Mr. T voiced himself in the 2003 video game “Celebrity Deathmatch”.

He received special thanks for the 2008 action comedy thriller movie “War, Inc.”

Mr. T’s made a guest appearance in numerous talk-shows, most recently in “WGN Morning News”, “Hollywood Insider” and “Biography: WWE Legends”.

Awards and nominations

Mr. T won a 1984 People’s Choice Award for Favorite Male Performer in a New TV Program.

He’s been nominated for two other awards: a 1983 Razzie Award for Worst New Star for his performance in “Rocky III”, and a 2008 TV Land Award for Character You REALLY Don’t Want to Make Angry, for “The A-Team”.

Wrestling career

Mr. T became a professional wrestler in 1985, when he signed with World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and was teamed up with famous American retired professional wrestler Terry Gene Bollea – aka Hulk Hogan.

He competed in World Class Championship Wrestling on 21 July 1989, but only returned to wrestling in 1994, when he defeated Kevin Sullivan.

Love life and relationships

Mr. T prefers to keep the details of his love life to himself, but it’s known that he and non-celebrity American Phyllis Clark exchanged vows in 1971, in front of their closest friends; Phyllis gave birth to their first daughter Lesa in the same year, and their second daughter Erica Clark followed in 1979. Erica’s a reality TV personality, and has made a guest appearance in talk-shows “Hart of the City” and “Jay Davis Presents: Creative Hustle”.

The date of Mr. T and Phyllis’ divorce remains undisclosed; he has a son Lawrence ‘TJ’ Junior who was a born in 1986, but it remains unknown whether or not TJ is Phyllis’ son.

Mr. T hasn’t mentioned other women whom he’s dated, he seems to be unattached as of April 2023, was once married to Phyllis Clark, and has three children.

Interesting facts and hobbies

Mr. T cut over a hundred oak trees on his property in Lake Forest, Illinois in 1987, and the event was described as ‘The Lake Forest Chain Saw Massacre’ by a local newspaper.

He was diagnosed with T-cell lymphoma in 1995, and has written about his fight against cancer in his yet-to-be-published book “Cancer Saved My Life (Cancer Ain’t For No Wimps)”.

Following the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Mr. T stopped wearing all of his gold, stating that it would be disrespectful to people who had lost everything in the hurricane.

He’s uploaded 60 pictures and videos onto his Instagram account, and close to 50,000 people are following him on the social media network.

Mr. T’s a huge fan of the late actor Leslie Nielsen, and some of his favorite movies include “Airplane!”, “The Naked Truth” and “Wrongfully Accused”.

Height, eyes and wealth

Mr. T’s age is 71. His eyes are brown, he has a black mohawk haircut, he’s 5ft 10ins (1.79m) tall and weighs around 185lbs (84kgs).

Mr. T’s net worth’s been estimated at over $2 million, as of April 2023.

Who is Bob Stoops?

American Football coach Robert Anthony ‘Bob’ Stoops was born in Youngstown, Ohio USA, on 9 September 1960, making Virgo his zodiac sign. He’s probably known best for the time which he spent coaching the Sooners of the University of Oklahoma; Bob’s record with the Sooners was 190-48, and they won the 2001 Orange Bowl under his guidance.

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Education and early life

Bob was raised in Youngstown alongside his five siblings, by their mother Evelyn ‘Dee Dee’ Stoops and father Ron Sr; not a lot has been shared about his family, because Bob respects their privacy, but it’s known that his father was also into sports, and was the Football defensive co-ordinator at Cardinal Mooney High School.

Bob became interested in football thanks to his father, who coached him while he was attending the above mentioned Cardinal Mooney; Ron also coached his other sons Mark, Mike and Ron Jr. at the school – both Mark and Mike are today coaches and former players. Ron Sr. died in 1988, when he began experiencing chest pains at a football game against his son Ron Jr’s team; he passed way in an ambulance en route to the hospital.

Bob matriculated in 1979, and then enrolled at the University of Iowa, at which he played defensive back, and was a starter for all four years; he was named the team’s Most Valuable Player (MVP) in 1982; he graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in marketing in the following year.

Bob’s career

Bob launched his career straight out of college, as he became a volunteer coach of the Iowa Hawkeyes under the tutelage of the late American college Football coach and player John Hayden Fry.

In 1988, he became the assistant football coach at Kent State University under head coach Dick Crum, and the following year saw him join the coaching staff at Kansas State University. In 1991, Bob became the co-defensive coordinator of the Kansas State Wildcats, and four years later their assistant head coach. During his final four years with the Wildcats, the team won 35 of their 47 games, and made three Bowl appearances.

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He became the defensive co-ordinator of the University of Florida’s Gators in 1996, and helped them win the 1997 Sugar Bowl; it was then mentioned that Bob might become their new head coach, but he instead chose to become the head coach of the University of Oklahoma’s Sooners in 1999.

He won his first seven games with the Sooners, and led them to the 1999 Super Bowl, their first Super Bowl appearance in six years. Bob went on to coach the Sooners for 18 years, marking his 157th victory with them on 16 November 2013, meaning that he and former Sooners’ head coach Barry Switzer were tied in the team’s victories. Starting in 2005 and ending in 2011, the Sooners won all the 39 games that they played at home – their streak ended when they lost to Texas Tech 41-28 on 22 October 2011.

Bob revealed on 7 June 2017 that he was retiring from college coaching, and was replaced by Lincoln Riley; on 7 February 2019 he announced that he was coming out of retirement, and was named head coach of the Dallas Renegades of the professional American Football minor league XFL. The league went bankrupt in April 2020, mostly because of the outbreak of the coronavirus, and Bob thus lost his job.

Bob was chosen as interim head coach for the Sooners’ Alamo Bowl game on 28 November 2021, after Lincoln Riley accepted the offer to become the head coach of the University of Southern California’s Trojans; the Sooners defeated the Oregon Ducks 47-32.

Bob then once again retired from coaching, and has since been staying away from the media’s attention.

Love life and marriage

Bob avoids speaking about his love life in public, but it’s still widely known that he’s been married for more than 30 years now.

He and non-celebrity American Carol Stoops married in a private ceremony in 1988, with only their closest friends and family members in attendance; Carol’s today working at the marketing company Mary Kay Inc. as their national sales director. They have three children together, daughter Mackenzie and twin sons Drake and Isaac, but not a lot has been revealed about them, because Bob and Carol want them to be able to lead normal lives; it’s known that Drake’s today playing for the Oklahoma Sooners as their wide receiver, and that Isaac’s a football coach at Moore High School, while he was also a volunteer analyst of the Sooners in 2021 and 2022.

Bob hasn’t spoken about the women whom he had maybe been with prior to meeting Carol, to whom he’s married as of April 2023, and they have three children together.

Interesting facts and hobbies

Bob’s younger brother Michael Joseph ‘Mike’ Stoops was once the Sooners’ defensive coordinator, as well as the head coach of the University of Arizona’s Wildcats; he’s today the inside linebackers coach at the University of Kentucky. Bob’s other brother Mark Thomas Stoops is today the head coach at the University of Kentucky, while their brother Ron Jr’s assistant coach at Youngstown State University.

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One of Bob’s best friends is American former Football coach and player Stephen Orr Spurrier, who was his mentor at the University of Florida.

He likes to travel and has been to all of the US states at least once, mostly thanks to his career as a football coach.

Bob’s a fan of actors Anthony Hopkins and Robert De Niro, and amongst his favorite movies are “Fracture”, “The Remains of the Day” and “The Mask of Zorro”.

Height, eyes and wealth

Bob’s age is 62. He has brown eyes and hair, is 5ft 4ins (1.62m) tall and weighs around 150lbs (68kgs).

Bob’s net worth’s been estimated at over $18 million, as of April 2023, nearly all of which he earned during his time  coaching the Oklahoma Sooners.