According to one source, 'When his father refused to give him a summer job at his newspaper, believing that his son should find work on his own,' Knight 'went to the rival Oregonian, where he worked the morning shift tabulating sports scores and every morning ran home the full seven miles.' He grew up in the Portland neighborhood of Eastmoreland, and attended Cleveland High School.
Knight was born in Portland, Oregon, to Bill Knight, a lawyer turned newspaper publisher, and his wife, Lota Cloy (née Hatfield) Knight. Knight (second from right) running track in 1958
