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When Santa came calling at Delphia Sweeting's home, he was missing his sleigh and red suit. Instead, he drove up in a silver Mercedes SUV and corduroys. University of Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari visited Sweeting and several other Lexington families Thursday to deliver boxes of gifts. Calipari partnered with P.G. Peeples, president of Lexington's Urban League, to find senior citizens in Lexington who needed help this holiday...  

Kentucky coach John Calipari knew the hangover was coming. And he knew he couldn't stop it. Rather than scream after the third-ranked Wildcats slogged through the first 20 minutes against Long Beach State less than 48 hours after celebrating the program's 2,000th win, Calipari simply challenged his players to shake it off.  

Kentucky coach John Calipari says he disagrees with Bobby Knight's assessment that college basketball lacks integrity and that he is proof the game has a problem.LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) -- Kentucky coach John Calipari says he disagrees with Bobby Knight's assessment that college basketball lacks integrity and that he is proof the game has a problem.    Calipari also said Friday he remains a "big fan" of the former Indiana and Texas Tech coach, but...  

Before he left for CBS Sportsline, Gary Parrish worked for the Memphis Commercial Appeal, where he spent four years covering John Calipari. Friday morning, after Bob Knight had taken a shot at John Calipari's "integrity," Parrish offered some advice for Kentucky basketball fans. Wrote Parrish: "Get used to it." He's right. This is the way it's going to be, at least for the time being. There's going to be the "Cal's a cheater" chants from...  

The University of Kentucky basketball players are talking about Bob Knight. But they are not talking about what Knight said on Thursday about their coach, John Calipari, and the integrity of college basketball or the University of Kentucky for hiring him despite a pair of vacated NCAA Final Fours at schools where Calipari has coached.  

To test his team's conscientiousness, Kentucky Coach John Calipari put the inmates in charge of the basketball asylum earlier this week. He left practice and let the players run a scrimmage. "It wasn't very successful," Josh Harrellson said. "Everybody went crazy without having structure. "That won't happen again." Harrellson likened the scrimmage to "open gym." Calipari received a message.  

John Calipari respectfully disagreed Friday with Hall of Famer Bob Knight, who questioned the Kentucky coach's integrity the day before. At a fund-raiser for the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame on Thursday, Knight singled out Calipari as an example of how coaching integrity was in decline. "You see we've got a coach at Kentucky who put two schools on probation, and he's still coaching," Knight said. "I really don't understand that." Knight...  

Bob Knight said integrity is lacking in college basketball and cited Kentucky coach John Calipari as an example. During a fundraiser for the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame, Knight said he doesn't understand why Calipari is still coaching.  

Bob Knight said integrity is lacking in college basketball and cited Kentucky coach John Calipari as an example. During a fundraiser for the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame, Knight said he doesn't understand why Calipari is still coaching. "We've gotten into this situation where integrity is really lacking and that's why I'm glad I'm not coaching," he said. "You see we've got a coach at Kentucky who put two schools on probation and he's...  

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Going back a couple of days, here's just about all of what Kentucky coach John Calipari had to say after the No.4 Wildcats' 64-61 victory over UConn. "We drank the poison in the first half. We listened to all the hype about players and John Wall and all that stuff, so we don't pass the ball. We didn't make three passes in the whole first half. We go up 12 and they're celebrating like we just won a national title. I'm trying to calm them down...  

Bob Knight, like so many former college basketball coaches and players, is a professional analyst. Knight jumped straight to working at the highest level. At ESPN. At the four-letter network every aspiring journalist attempts to reach. And he said this about Kentucky coach John Calipari—the coach of a team Knight is likely to call another game for this season—at an Indiana University fundraiser. “We've gotten into this situation where...  

Saturday is why Kentucky hired John Calipari. To be sure, UK's basketball coach has gone above and beyond to embrace the public side of the job description. He grips. He grins. He tweets. He speaks. He speaks some more. To say Calipari is light years ahead of his predecessor in the category of public persona is a vast understatement. No coach, not even Rick Pitino, has energized the Big Blue Nation the way Calipari has energized the Big...  

The last couple of days college basketball's all time winningest coach, Bob Knight, has been the target of all sorts of disapproving talking heads in the sports world.  Nothing new here, right?  Knight is under fire for saying at a fundraiser for the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame that the NCAA and college basketball lacks integrity.  To illustrate his point, Knight cited the example of Kentucky coach John Calipari.  "You see we've got a...  

Jim Calhoun was asked about his rivaly with John Calipari during Tuesday's conference call. Q: CAN YOU TALK ABOUT JOHN CALIPARI AS A COACH. I KNOW YOU GUYS HAD SOME BATTLES EARLY ON. WHAT IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP LIKE?