NASHVILLE, Ind. — The walls of Our Sandwich Place in Brown County, Indiana, are filled from top to bottom with Indiana University and Bob Knight memorabilia. The legendary men’s basketball co… ...

A birthday card. It was Bob Knight's 38th birthday on Oct. 25, and I was about to have my first-ever face-to-face meeting with him.

Legendary Bloomington sports editor Bob Hammel, in hospice care at 88, remembers it all and shares stories of family, friends, Bob Knight – and God.

Bob Knight, a Hall of Fame ... The note didn’t read quite like a Christmas card. Knight wrote that if Krzyzewski wanted to sever their relationship, that would be easily arranged.

May was the wild card here, by the way. Not Bob Knight. Nobody expected Knight to show up, and sure enough, he stayed away. But Scott May? That was the mysterious one.

The company will also sell a sports coat and a warmup jacket given to Knight as coach of the gold medal-winning U.S. Olympic team in 1984. ''I've got stuff I didn't even know I had,'' Knight said.

Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski, "Coach K," left, talks with Bob Knight after Duke defeated Michigan State 74-69 in an NCAA college basketball game Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011, in New York.

On the surface, they couldn’t have been more different. And yet Dean Smith and Bob Knight forged one of the most enduring—and most unlikely—friendships in college sports.

Bob Knight, March 12, 1994. ... Pat didn’t believe in credit cards and drove just two cars his entire adult life. He never owned a home until he built one in 1956.

That visitor's name was Bob Knight and he was adamant he needed to talk with Gov. Bayh. "I said, 'Wow, OK, sure, show him in,'" Bayh said. Knight walked into the governor's Indiana Statehouse office.