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Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.

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Bobby Knight
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 25
Basketball Coach
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Massillon
Ohio
Robert Montgomery Knight
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So when I hear a guy after a game-winning home run say or gesture that God was on his side, I think to myself, 'He's saying God screwed the pitcher.
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