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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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06/01/12 USA Today: Kentucky coach John Calipari basking in... Source: The Mid-Majority The cell phone in John Calipari 's bag makes a noise and he says with a sly grin that it's his Twitter account going off and he needs to answer it.
06/01/12 Louisville Not Participating In Big East/SEC Challenge Source: Card Chronicle Joining Pittsburgh and Connecticut, Louisville will be one of three Big East schools not participating in this year's Big East/SEC Challenge.
06/01/12 Calipari discusses IU series, Rupp Arena future Source: CatsPause.com - Kentucky Athletics and Recruiting Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari sat down with Cats Illustrated for an extended interview this week at the Southeastern Conference meetings.
05/31/12 CBS Sports: Video: Calipari on his 'non-traditional'... Source: The Mid-Majority You're clearly seeing some branding at work here.
05/31/12 Calipari talks Davis' Olympic chances, Ryan Harrow Source: CatsPause.com - Kentucky Athletics and Recruiting Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari sat down with Cats Illustrated for an extended interview this week at the Southeastern Conference meetings.