COACH POPE and his staff made BRILLIANT adjustments during Saturday’s WIN over Missouri. And, most importantly, had the WISDOM to recruit terrific players who could execute it. These 12….
Now, would you like to watch some of the first-season love stories that are airborne today? After that, you should definitely land in Kentucky, where a new love has been brewing since April but most likely only blossomed this week into something you could describe as intense.
Fans of the empire flocked to Rupp Arena on a Sunday afternoon to witness the Taj Mahal of introductory news conferences when a former big man and role player for the Kentucky men’s basketball team was appointed coach and exposed this spring. They cheered with an odd tone that could be heard on YouTube: relief that John Calipari’s 15-season reign, which was fantastic but eventually stale, had given way to someone who genuinely
Although it seems odd that a man who went to high school in the Seattle area would stand his 6-foot-10 in the middle of the love that has swept across the area as if it were straight out of the hollows and horse farms, the journey is considerably more peculiar than that. The story begins in a quiet dean’s office in Upper Manhattan, where the dean’s face took on an expression that romped all the way to incredulity and possibly even straight on past, as Pope recounted in his own roomy new
Three years into his medical school career, the world-class communicator across the desk from Lisa Mellman was on the verge of quitting. It was July 2009. In order to work for the Bulldogs, he would relocate to Athens, Georgia, along with his wife, Lee Anne, and his four girls, all of whom were under the age of eight. In May, he claimed that he would raise $24,000 annually for jobs like “folding laundry and handing out water and running the tailgate
