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ESPN is making a movie about Bobby Knight and the 1985-86 Indiana Hoosiers, and Page 2 solicited your help to cast some key roles in the film about the volatile basketball coach.
Below are some of the best suggestions from the hundreds of messages sent in by Page 2 readers for choices to play the role of rival coach Gene Keady of Purdue. Check out the suggestions, then vote for the best suggestion in the poll at left to move to the candidates who readers suggested should portray rival coach Bill Frieder of Michigan.
We'll reveal the winning choices for each role next week.
Based on "Season on the Brink: A Year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers," the best-selling book by John Feinstein, ESPN's first made-for-TV production is due to air March 10.
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Gene Hackman
Aged and wily, with a flair for a temper fit.
Sean Dempsey
Valley Forge, Pa.
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Rip Torn
He is a dead ringer physically, and has the snake in the grass aspect. He looks sneaky and untrustworthy -- like he's up to something.
Chris Faith
Haddonfield, N.J. |
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Joe Pesci
"You think that's a box and one? You think so? Oh no -- (whack) That's a box and one!"
David
Bossier City, La. |
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Kevin Spacey
The "American Beauty" Kevin Spacey would make a great Keady.
Jay Sowinski
Nashville, Tenn. |
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Tommy Lee Jones
A "loveable," overly intense guy with a wicked comb-over.
Marcus Hendricks
Montreal
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