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Who Needs Recruiting? Not Our Two-Star or Less All-Star Team

Grab some pine, John Calipari. Pass the Gatorade to Mike Krzyzewski, Roy Williams and Bill Self. Kick your feet up Thad Matta, Josh Pastner and Ben Howland. Elite recruiters aren't needed here While Calipari and college basketball's top pitchmen have spent the summer picking up five-star recruits like Justin Bieber...

Huggins' Heart Tied to Calipari

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- When West Virginia and Kentucky battle for a trip to the Final Four Saturday in the Carrier Dome, one of the more intriguing storylines will involve coaches Bob Huggins and John Calipari.Or more specifically the time when Huggins suffered a heart attack in 2002, and while en route to the hospital,...

Fun Facts Surrounding the Madness

Totally Random First-Round Facts30 --The number of states represented in 64-team field. States with multiple schools include Texas (7), Pennsylvania (5), California (4), Indiana, Kentucky, New York, Ohio and Tennessee with three apiece, and Florida, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Carolina,...

John Calipari Again Calls John Buccigross 'a Jagoff'

Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari appeared on ESPN in January and drew a lot of attention for calling SportsCenter host John Buccigross "a jagoff."On Monday, Calipari gave a live telephone interview to ESPN's Chris McKendry, while Buccigross was also in the studio. And Calipari decided to revisit the issue. Share...

Coaches K, Cal Latest Names Dropped in Nets Coaching Rumorfest

Mike Krzyzewski and John Calipari are now "rumored candidates" for the New Jersey Nets head coaching position, a job for which no official coaching search has even begun (making their candidacy somewhat tepid). The K rumors started out of North Jersey's Bergen Record, where a source is cited as saying that "[Krzyzewski is]...

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05/24/12 CBS Sports: UK naturally going low-key in scheduling;... Source: The Mid-Majority In my Wednesday post about the college coalition that's feebly ganged up on Kentucky and John Calipari, I debated opening the piece with, "I wonder how Calipari will react to this one?" before going with a straight lede.
05/23/12 FMD vs. The Blonde Side: One and dones Source: ABC - WHAS 11 News - Louisville KY So, if you haven't heard, the men's basketball version of the Kentucky Wildcats is turning over their entire roster.
05/23/12 CBS Sports: Kentucky's scheduling tactics called into... Source: The Mid-Majority The Coalition on Intercollegiate Athletics (COIA), a 59-member assembly of nonprofit think-tankers looking to improve college sports in every healthy way they see possible, has publicly gone after John Calipari and the University of Kentucky for the way it currently markets itself as a distinct, "non-traditional" basketball program in the wake of its latest NCAA title.
05/23/12 Syracuse basketball ranks ninth in Sporting News'... Source: The Post-Standard - Syracuse NY This report is from Sporting News writer Mike DeCourcy.
05/23/12 Torts, DeBoer faceoff the latest episode of âWhen... Source: New York Post - New York NY The one coach, he had a talent for getting under everyone's skin â the media's, other coaches', his own players'.