coolhandgopher
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The consensus is in: John Calipari is tainted. Well, that’s what we’re seeing from most, although Mike DeCourcy at Sporting News offers a different take, as do the entertaining folks at catspause.
Dana O’Neil at ESPN:
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/columns/story?columnist=oneil_dana&id=4411875
Luke Winn at Sports Illustrated:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/luke_winn/08/20/memphis/index.html#?eref=T1
Mark Story from the Lexington Herald Leader:
http://www.kentucky.com/287/story/903028.html
Geoff Calkins from the Memphis Commercial Appeal:
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2009/aug/20/geoff-calkins-ncaa-ruling-less-about-memphis-more-/
DeCourcy’s take:
http://www.sportingnews.com/nba/article/2009-08-20/ncaa-let-rose-play-so-why-does-memphis-have-pay
And the never dull folks at catspause:
http://kentucky.rivals.com/showmsg.asp?fid=1383&tid=131124372&mid=131124372&sid=888&style=2
Onto more drama. . .the Henry brothers have finally arrived in Lawrence, after much hand-wringing this summer (most of it seemingly caused by their father Carl).
http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/story/12091644
Moral of this story? If some college age kid named Joe Davis shows up on your doorstep, offering to squire your teenage prodigy son around next summer, don’t let him past the screen door:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/17/AR2009081702512.html
And finally, the inanity which is the NCAA has spread its wings to place cream cheese in the same realm as Dave Bliss:
http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/so-now-the-ncaa-has-a-cream-cheese-violation-25686
See you on Monday~
Dana O’Neil at ESPN:
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/columns/story?columnist=oneil_dana&id=4411875
Luke Winn at Sports Illustrated:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/luke_winn/08/20/memphis/index.html#?eref=T1
Mark Story from the Lexington Herald Leader:
http://www.kentucky.com/287/story/903028.html
Geoff Calkins from the Memphis Commercial Appeal:
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2009/aug/20/geoff-calkins-ncaa-ruling-less-about-memphis-more-/
DeCourcy’s take:
http://www.sportingnews.com/nba/article/2009-08-20/ncaa-let-rose-play-so-why-does-memphis-have-pay
And the never dull folks at catspause:
http://kentucky.rivals.com/showmsg.asp?fid=1383&tid=131124372&mid=131124372&sid=888&style=2
Onto more drama. . .the Henry brothers have finally arrived in Lawrence, after much hand-wringing this summer (most of it seemingly caused by their father Carl).
http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/story/12091644
Moral of this story? If some college age kid named Joe Davis shows up on your doorstep, offering to squire your teenage prodigy son around next summer, don’t let him past the screen door:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/17/AR2009081702512.html
And finally, the inanity which is the NCAA has spread its wings to place cream cheese in the same realm as Dave Bliss:
http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/so-now-the-ncaa-has-a-cream-cheese-violation-25686
See you on Monday~