Sports News Briefs: Kasey Kahne, Bob Knight, Real Sports
NASCAR driver Kasey Kahne
NASCAR stud
Kasey Kahne stars (along with
Dennis Haysbert) in two new Allstate commercials that break during Sunday's NASCAR
Sprint Cup race from Las Vegas (March 2, 3:30 pm/ET, Fox). In one of the spots, Kahne dances in a fantasy-sequence music video as part of the fantasy of some very enthusiastic female fans....
Putting the "mad" in March Madness,
Bob Knight will join ESPN's studio team for coverage of college basketball conference tournaments and the NCAA championships. Knight, who quit his job as head coach at Texas Tech on Feb. 4, will start this gig on Wednesday, March 12. In 47 years of coaching (and kicking chairs and yelling at reporters), he compiled a 902-371 record....
HBO's
Real Sports returns March 10 with segments on the University of Tennessee men's basketball coach
Bruce Pearl and Rutgers' women's coach
C. Vivian Stringer.
