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Boys’ basketball: Reed gets Pioneer Valley job

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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Neil Reed, the former Indiana basketball player made famous by a 1997 video showing a physical altercation in which then-Hoosiers Coach Bob Knight appeared to choke him, has been hired as coach at Pioneer Valley.

Reed replaces Greg DeNike, who resigned after his team won only one PAC-7 League game last season. Reed has spent the last three years as an assistant basketball and football coach at the school.

Reed told the Santa Maria Times this week that ‘definitely, time has put a little distance’ from the incident with Knight. ‘That’s been good.’

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--Ben Bolch

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Ben Bolch

Ben Bolch has been a Los Angeles Times staff writer since 1999. He is serving his second stint as the UCLA beat writer, which seems fitting since he has covered almost every sports beat except hockey and horse racing. Bolch is also the author of the recently released book “100 Things UCLA Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.” He previously covered UCLA basketball from 2010-11 before going on to cover the NBA and the Clippers for five years. He happily traded in gobs of hotel points and airline miles to return to cover UCLA basketball and football in the summer of 2016. Bolch was once selected by NBA TV’s “The Starters” as the “Worst of the Week” after questioning their celebrity journalism-style questions at an NBA All-Star game and considers it one of his finer moments.

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