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Kentucky puts Big Blue nation out of its misery with SEC Tourney loss
Mississippi State ended Big Blue nation’s hope of a tourney run this season after Iverson Molinar hit two clutch free throws to give the Bulldogs the 74-73 win over Kentucky....

Kentucky and Duke haven’t sucked this bad since Watergate… literally
It’s no secret that the blue bloods of college basketball have been worse this year than an Amy Schumer stand-up special....

Idiot of the Month: Kelly Loeffler eclipsed by even bigger moron
Welcome to Deadspin’s IDIOT OF THE MONTH awards, a brand-new segment in which we list a series of stupid people and say caustic things about them. Hot off the heels of a fun, popular, and spirited 2020 IDIOT OF THE YEAR series, we have decided to give the people what they want....

John Calipari misses the mark by criticizing his own players’ protest
John Calipari is rolling down a slippery slope. On Wednesday, the championship coach, who has helped 35 players get drafted to the NBA in the last decade, criticized the timing of a protest led by his current players before their game against Florida on Jan. 9. Before tipoff against the Gators, Kent...

John Calipari Is So Close
Kentucky head coach John Calipari had his annual behind-the-scenes profile published today, this time in GQ; this one follows Calipari around his family’s beach house and his church, and the coach even let reporter Reid Forgrave attend mass with him. This somehow led to Calipari being referred to as...

Does John Calipari Know What Socialism Is?
Duke managed to edge out Kentucky and land five-star recruit Zion Williamson on Saturday, meaning the Blue Devils now have the top three high school players in the country from the class of 2018. This left Wildcats coach John Calipari facing some questions about his recruiting strategy at a press co...

John Calipari Walks Out Of Interview As Missouri Student Section Chants At Him
Kentucky traveled to Columbia to play SEC basement dwellers Missouri tonight, and the game was uncomfortably close at halftime. No. 11 Kentucky held just a one-point lead over the Tigers at the half, and Missouri fans let Cal have it while he was doing an interview with a reporter from the SEC Netwo...

Ahh... You Touch My Tra-La-La
John Calipari was clearly feelin’ it during the Wildcats’ big 82-77 win over Georgia today....

As Usual, John Calipari Pushes An NCAA Rule To Its Limit
In a tweetstorm this afternoon, Kentucky coach John Calipari revealed his latest plan to lay bare the machinations of the NCAA. Here is a lightly edited transcript of his tweets:...

John Calipari Ejected In Under Three Minutes Against South Carolina
The #22 Kentucky Wildcats are on the road down in South Carolina this morning, and it took John Calipari mere minutes to get all riled up at officials and get himself tossed. Weirdly, it was after a foul was called against the Gamecocks....

It Will Take So Much Money To Get John Calipari To The NBA, And The Nets Might Have It
The Brooklyn Nets cleaned house yesterday, firing head coach Lionel Hollins and GM Billy King at the same damn time, meaning that it’s once again time to wonder if Kentucky head coach John Calipari will come swooping in to save an NBA franchise. ...

John Calipari Probably Loves The Pope Way More Than You Do
It’s Pope Time in America, which means most people on the East Coast are grumbling about traffic and shipping delays and the goddamn Pope messing up their iPhone orders. Kentucky men’s basketball coach John Calipari is not one of these Gloomy Garys, though, because John Calipari loves him some Pope....

Memphis Undoes Decision To Honor John Calipari After Fans Whine
Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari will be inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame this weekend for a career that has, over nearly 30 years, seen his teams advance to six Final Fours (two of them vacated) and win an NCAA title. Before Calipari coached Kentucky, however, he spent nine seasons ...

Report: Increasingly Desperate Kings Are Trying To Lure John Calipari
We didn’t think it was possible for the Sacramento Kings to become a bigger mess than they already are, and yet here’s a new report from Yahoo’s Adrian Wojnarowski, which pulls back the curtain on a spectacularly broken franchise....

John Calipari To Colin Cowherd: "You Gotta Stop On John Wall"
Earlier today, Kentucky head coach John Calipari joined the ute-puking national embarrassment that is Colin Cowherd to talk basketball. But Coach Cal wasn’t going to hop off the air without giving ol’ Cowturd an earful regarding his constant heckling of John Wall....

John Calipari's Deal Is Bad, Even For Players Whose Knees Survive It
Last week, I wrote about the ways that both pro- and anti-NCAA camps tend to miss the mark when talking about University of Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari. He deserves less criticism for breaking NCAA rules and more for profiting from them, because even his “Players First” arrangement forc...

Alex Poythress Doesn't Prove That John Calipari Is The Devil
Originally published on Slate....

We Need To Talk About How We Talk About John Calipari
The New York Times, a grandfather clock that tells you what time it was five minutes ago, roused itself to a state of drowsy confusion on Tuesday to recount Kentucky coach John Calipari's long history of violating NCAA rules and escaping consequences....

John Calipari Called Into Mike Francesa's Show To Yell At Him
Today on his radio show, Mike Francesa was talking some shit about Kentucky men's basketball coach John Calipari. "He's not a classic X's and O's guy," he said in his particular way. Francesa then took a call from "John in Kentucky," who wanted to defend coach Cal's abilities. Turns out, "John in ...