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07/15/11 The talk among University of Kentucky basketball fans heading into the summer evaluation periods centered on which high school players would be the focus of coach John Calipari and his staff, who have no commitments for the Class of 2012.
07/08/11 Kentucky and Texas and Florida and Michigan are probably in. Duke and Stanford and Butler are probably not. And there are some crazy bubble teams like North Carolina. This is part three of a three-part series. You reckon Rick Pitino at Louisville would be any good at this new game? Unencumbered by the NCAA rulebook, with cash to spend, and an eye for talent? How about John Calipari at ...
07/07/11 Just a few days ago, University of Kentucky basketball fans were fretting as national analysts predicted that John Calipari's string of No. 1 recruiting classes was about to come to an end.What a difference two days can make.
07/05/11 John Calipari went on Twitter last Friday to tell University of Kentucky products currently locked out of their NBA training facilities that they can use the UK campus to train during the lockout ... and, boy, is this guy good. First, the tweet : And on the surface, it's a nice move by Coach Cal. Sure, fly right in, use our courts to train on your own time (if I'm not mistaken, they'll be mostly ...
06/29/11 John Calipari , Mike Krzyzewski, Roy Williams and Bill Self do not make college basketball exciting; it is the fans that do that. The love and the passion fans exhibit towards their schools' basketball teams are what make college sports so great. Yes, sometimes they can become meddlesome and offer players illegal gifts in order to get closer to the team, but that enthusiasm allows college ...
06/28/11 University of Kentucky men's basketball coach John Calipari received a two-year extension on his contract Monday that calls for him to make up to $5.75 million annually by the 2018-2019 season, according to UK documents.
06/28/11 The New York Post's Mark Berman suggested Kentucky coach John Calipari is a possible candidate to replace Mike D'Antoni after next season. Also, Pat Riley, Erik Spoelstra and ...
06/28/11 he University of Kentucky has given men's basketball coach John Calipari an extension that makes his contract worth $36.5 million and will keep him coaching the Wildcats through 2019.
06/28/11 The 19th-ranked Memphis Tigers are about to show what a difference a year -- and a top recruiting class -- can mean to a program. A year ago, fans rallied around the Tigers in the wake of John Calipari's defection to Kentucky along with the loss of the nation's top recruiting class. They turned out so strong for midnight madness that officials had to close the doors at the FedExForum.
06/28/11 Like any good salesman, John Calipari knows it's important to under-promise and over-deliver. One problem. It's not an option at Kentucky. So while Calipari will tell anyone who listens his second year with the Wildcats won't be like the first -- a watershed season in which he revitalized the foundering program with one of the greatest recruiting classes ever -- he can't exactly do...
06/27/11 Kentucky Gives John Calipari Contract Extension The Kentucky Wildcats have rewarded head basketball coach John Calipari a two year contract extension. This will give him a total of eight more years in Lexington. Calipari's new deal gives him $36.5 million over the eight years plus incentives. Calipari recently had wins taken away from him for previous problems with the NCAA. The Wildcats took a ...
06/27/11 The senior defensive midfielder was previously voted to the Capital One/College Sports Information Directors of America women's at-large academic All-America second team. The University of Kentucky has given men's basketball coach John Calipari a two-year contract extension worth a total of up to $5.75 million, including up to $850,000 a year in incentives. West, a two-time All-Star who was ...
06/27/11 The University of Kentucky has given basketball coach John Calipari (below) an extension that makes his contract worth $36.5 million and will keep him coaching the Wildcats through 2019.
06/27/11 John Calipari signs for nearly $6 million to stay as basketball coach at Kentucky
06/26/11 UK coach John Calipari expects Doron Lamb to carry a lot more of the playmaking responsibilities next season. That's one skill Lamb will look to improve because the guard decided to return for his sophomore season rather than make himself eligible for the NBA draft.
06/24/11 NEWARK, N.J. -- Four foreign-born lottery picks for the first time, the fourth straight year a John Calipari-coached point guard (Brandon Knight) lands in the top eight and a ninth straight year the son of a former NBA player (Klay Thompson) has had his name called. Let's break down the 2011 NBA Draft.
06/23/11 Jane Scisco was as as excited as anyone in the place. She got to meet John Calipari for the first time Wednesday, got her picture taken with the Kentucky coach and got to see some of her favorite Wildcats at close range.
06/22/11 Video Click Here Independence, KY - John Calipari first revealed his plan to overhaul the college athletics landscape to ABC 36 on Tuesday at a Kentucky basketball satellite camp in Independence, KY. Calipari is in favor of providing college athletes with a stipend for living expenses. His plan to fund it calls for cutting major college athletics down to four super conferences of 16 to 18 teams ...
06/22/11 HOMEWOOD, Alabama -- New Samford Athletics Director Martin New ton has a unique re sume. He's the son of for mer Alabama and Vanderbilt basketball coach and Kentucky AD C.M. Newton. He's worked for Joe Dean Sr. at Converse, Phil Knight at Nike and John Calipari at Kentucky.
06/17/11 It turns out Kentucky coach John Calipari hasn't reached 500 career victories after all.
06/13/11 As if the NCAA doesn't have enough real issues to monitor, now it's apparently inventing imaginary ones to scrutinize. According to the Lexington Herald-Leader, the chairman of the NCAA's Committee on Infractions recently sent Kentucky a letter requesting the school publicly acknowledge it erred by celebrating John Calipari's 500th victory after a win over Florida last February. At issue is the ... | 
