Coach Cal says that Kentucky fans should look forward not just to games, but to "experiences."

Cal said yesterday that was the main reason why UK has scheduled a doubleheader with Baylor involving both the men's and women's teams at Cowboys Stadium in Texas with Baylor. Tickets will be evenly distributed between the schools, with the hope that attendance at the giant NFL stadium will break an NCAA record. ...

Editor's note: Today we begin a series of occasional articles by NOB staff members about potential paths forward for Coach Joker Phillips and the Kentucky football team.

by Katie Hensley

When John Calipari became the head basketball coach at the University of Kentucky in 2009, he was faced with the task of turning around a program that had recently suffered several uncharacteristically disappointing seasons. To say that he succeeded in this mission would be a massive understatement.


The success he and his players have experienced since that fateful appointment has been
astounding. ...

Rajon Rondo had his worst game of the series as the Boston Celtics dropped Game 6 to the Philadelphia 76ers 82-75.

Rondo finished with a series worse 9 points on 4-14 from the field and only 6 assists as the 76ers extended to the series to a game 7 in Boston on Friday.

Jodie Meeks dribbled out the clock in the Sixers win, but did not score in 12:40 minutes of playing ...

On this episode: Paxton and Scott talk about the schedule for UK and Thomas Robinson wants to be number 1 in the NBA draft over Davis.

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Coach John Calipari has taken a lot of heat for getting rid of Indiana and North Carolina on the Kentucky basketball schedule.

Well, it looks like North Carolina will only be gone for 1 year, but he has added a couple of other big time matchups for this season and the future.

This from Coach Cal on CoachCal.com:


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We’ll talk a little bit of everything on Wednesday’s show. The Lexington Herald Leader’s Mark Story will join us to talk about all things Kentucky.
PGA touring pro, Josh Teater, will join us to talk about some golf and preview the upcoming US Open. Jeff Drummond has the recruiting game covered with his daily update.
The show lifts off at 6pm tonight.
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First off, if you don't know what the COIA acronym means, is stands for the Coalition of Intercollegiate Athletics.

Secondly, these people think John Calipari is basically ruining college basketball by trying to turn the game into a professional sport.

In other words, these people are upset because Cal won't play Indiana and North Carolina on campus.

Matt Norlander of CBS Sports.com thinks this is totally ridiculous: ...