A Coach's Secrets

After a once-prominent women's basketball coach kills himself, his troubling past comes to light

When James S. Izard took over the Indiana University women's basketball program, in 1988, Bob Knight had already hung three national championship banners. But Mr. Izard was not daunted to work in the shadow of the legendary men's coach. "If he's the king of Indiana," he liked to say about Mr. Knight, "I'll just be the queen."

He had reason to be confident. At every stop along his

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