Category: Kentucky Wildcats
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Monday, October 31st, 2011
You have got to give it to John Calipari. Everywhere he goes, he wins. When he took over the head coaching gig at Kentucky, the Wildcats were more of an also-ran in college basketball, a middle-of-the-pack team in the SEC. Calipari took over three years ago and it didn’t take ...
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Tuesday, June 28th, 2011
Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari signed a contract extension this week which ties him to the Wildcats until 2019. Asked if players will be getting paid by the time that contract runs out, he basically said he hopes so -- that players start receiving a cost-of-living fund -- but there ...
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Monday, June 27th, 2011
You don't think we'd let the 2011 NBA Draft come and go without checking in with Charles Barkley to see what he had to say did you? Of course not. Sir Charles is typically pure gold in his reactions and assessment to the NBA's major developments, and not just because ...
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Wednesday, March 30th, 2011
The Kentucky Wildcats were never supposed to be in this position. Okay maybe that's not true. Kentucky was supposed to be Final Four bound. A year ago. Not now. Kentucky was a No. 1 seed in last year's Big Dance thanks to a team chock full of talented players that ...
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Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
Kentucky senior center, Josh Harrellson, may have been a forgettable name to start the season for the Wildcats, but the big man who played all of 28 minutes last season has made the most of his opportunities this season. Harrellson has put up double-digits points in all four games of the NCAA tournament ...
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Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
As usual, the night of Selection Sunday was mostly about arguing over which teams got in over the teams that got left out. It appears the consensus was that there were some real head-scratchers, but it's not like the blunders ended merely at who got in and who didn't.
Try Kentucky ...
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Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
Think it's a coincidence that John Calipari finds a way to get the very best recruits to come to wherever he's coaching? No, I'm not saying he breaks or bends the rules to accomplish that feat (though he might). I'm just speaking about his impressive charisma and ability to talk ...
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Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
It wasn't exactly an illustrious career, but at the end of the day, here we are and Kentucky forward Patrick Patterson is right where he hoped he would be when he stepped foot on campus in Lexington in 2007 - on the doorstep of being selected in the 1st round ...
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Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
When John Wall arrived at Kentucky this year, he came with a ton of hype surrounding him and he more than lived up to it in his only season at Kentucky. He was the second best player in America and helped lead the Wildcats to 35 wins and back into ...
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Monday, May 24th, 2010
It comes as no surprise to me that John Calipari has been in the news recently regarding recruiting. Recruiting is how Calipari has made a name for himself and how he has become one of the best coaches to have never won a National Championship. Year in and year out, ...
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