Posts Tagged ‘John Calipari’

Kentucky Introduces Their Heralded Freshmen

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

While we are all getting ready for the phenomenon known as college football, other college sports are getting ready for their upcoming seasons as well. Like the Kentucky Wildcats basketball team, for one. Yesterday, photos of the John Calipari’s highly-heralded class hit the intertubes, and man, Cat fans are incredibly excited. This [...]

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Mario Chalmers Lives (John Calipari)

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

The NCAA is trying to tell you, thanks to John Calipari/Derrick Rose’s SAT debacle, that the Mario Chalmers shot didn’t really happen — even if you think it did. Sorry if you’ve got video footage to back your claim up. It still didn’t happen. Although, try telling that to all the Kansas [...]

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Isiah Thomas Gets First Big Catch

Friday, August 7th, 2009

Isiah Thomas snared Florida International’s first big-time recruit in sometime when swing man Dominique Ferguson gave his commitment to the Golden Panthers. While it’s pretty obvious Ferguson, who committed to Kentucky during Billy Gillispie’s fantastic tenure, is going to Florida International more for the coach than the school’s extensive basketball history, the commitment goes [...]

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Papa John Calipari (Twitter Trends)

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

Kentucky coach John Calipari is a big (new) fan of Papa Johns, and he isn’t afraid to use Twitter to tell the world about it. Is this a new method of sponsorship? Taking the Twitter “airwaves” to pitch products associated with your employer? Take, for example, these tweets from Calipari. Not [...]

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Odds-On Favorites (College Basketball)

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

Are we heading for a Bill Self/John Calipari National Championship rematch next March? If you are going by the newly-released betting odds for the upcoming college basketball season, then yes, Kansas and Kentucky will be favorites when the season begins (now just four short months away, give or take). Does this mean we’ll [...]

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The Josh Selby Hubbub

Monday, July 20th, 2009

So a stud basketball player decommits from a team he pledged his eligibility to when he was 16 and reopens the recruiting process. All-in-all, it’s just another day in the world of college basketball recruiting, where the fates of millionaire coaches are decided by the whims of athletically-gifted children. Why is it, then, [...]

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