Knight doc sees light of day

ESPN’s moral compass may as well be a windsock.

For years its Bobby Knight- goes-nuts action reels were regular “SportsCenter” attractions.

In 2008, ESPN hired him to analyze games. Presto! Those Knight-goes-nuts reels disappeared from ESPN.

Only after Knight was not retained, in April 2015, did those highly disturbing, even historic moving images of Knight’s violent, wild-eyed behavior return on ESPN.

And now ESPN’s presenting an independently produced, highly unflattering documentary about Knight — a program that would not be seen on ESPN had Knight still been employed by ESPN.

But such contempt for integrity is nothing new. Just another reminder that you can’t shame the shameless.

So Spurs’ coach Gregg Popovich says the 3-point shot is destroying the NBA — shoving the game further from a reliance on strong, two-way team play, making games mindless, shooting gallery farces. Agreed. But even if he’s the first NBA coach to speak that selfevident truth, what kept him?

Now that running to first base is optional and commissioner Rob Manfred encourages kids to pose near home plate, reader Ted McNabb suggests that all ground-rule doubles — actually, “byrule” doubles — “should be reduced to ground-rule singles.”

What Nike money can do: Michigan amd Oklahoma football teams wear jerseys carrying a Nike logo depicting a man — Michael Jordan — playing basketball.

Reader Jim Mitchell: “I watched the CFL’s Grey Cup championship. Canadian football is weird. Do you know they call putting it on the ground a ‘fumble’?”