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Calipari Express — Baggage Included

Well, John Calipari has made the liberal big time. It was one thing to be written about by SI and ESPN, to have your name splashed across the top of The Sporting News and lede CBS Sportsline and be addressed by your enemies in the Commercial-Appeal and Orlando Sentinel. But you haven't made it until the "Gray Lady" says so, until "all the news that's fit to print" includes news about you. UK's basketball coach appears in today's New York Times and as the title indicates the story includes just about all the tidbits you'd expect: UK's checkered past, the travails of the last two coaches, the broken Big Dance string, the obligatory items on vacated Final Fours, recent small transgressions by John Wall and the dismissed staffer, plus, on the positive — well as positive as The Times can be — side, the fan worship, Twitter followers, and kind words from Joe B and surprisingly Memphis and Amherst (by way of Huntington). Considering the source, it's a pretty good piece.