Basketball coaching material

Post-Crescent staff writer Dan Kohn caught up with former Wisconsin basketball coaching legend Dick Bennett at the St. Mary Central coaching clinic on Saturday. Here are Bennetts responses to questions:  

Mount Aloysius men’s basketball coach Lance Loya will host the Coaches vs. Cancer basketball coaching clinic on Nov. 1 at the Cresson college.“I think we have got a great clinic lined up with some really quality speakers,” Loya said in a release. “Sunday, November 1st is the Steeler’s bye week, so there is no excuse for local coaches to not take advantage of this exciting opportunity.”  

About 60 fans of Clarion University's basketball team planned to board a bus at around 7 this morning and take a seven-hour ride from the Pittsburgh area to Lexington. They want to see their beloved Golden Eagles play at mighty Kentucky on Friday night and, perhaps more importantly, see a favorite son, Kentucky Coach John Calipari. "It's a win-win for everybody," Clarion Coach Ron Righter said. Those expected on the bus included Joe...  

Windstream (NYSE: WIN), the official high-speed Internet, home phone and digital TV provider for University of Kentucky athletics, has created a new Web site dedicated to UK basketball and first-year men?s coach John Calipari.The site, www.calipari1on1.com, also features Windstream?s new ?Pass It Forward? charitable program benefiting the Calipari Family Foundation for Children."Windstream has a proud history of giving back to the...  

In just nine short weeks, Coach John Calipari, Papa John?s and John and Annette Schnatter have delivered $50,000 for the children of Kentucky ? without even getting up from the computer.The 850,000 Twitter and Facebook followers and CoachCal.com members of University of Kentucky basketball coach, John Calipari, raised funds through an online promotion, The Coach Cal 3-Pointer ? a large up to three topping pizza for only $10, with $1 going to...  

Hugh BernreuterCollege basketball teams kicked off their seasons with Midnight Madness shows Friday night, with Kentucky holding a concert-like celebration for new coach John Calipari, who talked about bringing Kentucky celebrations, banquets, diplomas, banners, rings and parades. Excuse me? Diplomas...  

It has been a big year for John Calipari. In spring, he left Memphis for one of the most storied programs in college basketball history, Kentucky. Three weeks later, he landed the No. 1 recruit in the nation. More recently, his latest book, Bounce Back: Overcoming Setbacks to Succeed in Business and in Life, debuted [...]  

On a stage befitting a rock star... John Calipari got his first taste of a packed house at Rupp Arena on Friday night and promised to return Kentucky basketball to "its rightful place at the top of the mountain." The new Wildcats coach made his entrance around 8:40 p.m. to chants of "Go Big Blue" during the program"s preseason pep rally... Big Blue Madness. Then he spent the next 15 minutes delivering a rousing speech to a crowd that...  

BIRMINGHAM --- The media assembled Thursday to talk to John Calipari about his new job as Kentucky 's coach. Calipari used the platform at the SEC's basketball media day to blow his horn for the league, predicting that it will send seven or eight ...  

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- On a stage befitting a rock star, John Calipari got his first taste of a packed house at Rupp Arena on Friday night and promised to return Kentucky basketball to "its rightful place at the top of the mountain." John Wall shows off ...  

C.M. Newton first met Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari when he was still an assistant coach at Pittsburgh when Newton was coaching at Vanderbilt and faced Pitt in the NCAA Tournament. He got to know Calipari much better when he was UK’s ...  

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Tennessee coach Bruce Pearl figures the Southeastern Conference was a little young and a little weaker than usual last season, so teams opted to lighten up their nonconference schedules. "You combine those two things and all of a ...  

On a stage befitting a rock star, John Calipari got his first taste of a packed house at Rupp Arena on Friday night and promised to return Kentucky basketball to "its rightful place at the top of the mountain." The new Wildcats coach made his entrance around 8:40 p.m. to chants of "Go Big Blue" during the program's preseason pep rally, Big Blue Madness.  

LEXINGTON - University of Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari has learned that fans are passionate about more than just Wildcats basketball. Calipari incurred the wrath of some fans after word got out that he sent a Kentucky jersey to President ...  

John Calipari says he has felt like a political candidate during his first six months as Kentucky's basketball coach, generating new hype with each campaign stop across the state even while trying to temper some lofty expectations.