The Big Blue Daily Mail -- News for Kentucky Wildcat fans, May 30th 2009

To da beach!

Well, it won't be the beach you see on your right, which is on the island of O'ahu where I spent a few days last year.  Instead, I am going back to my usual haunts on the Eastern Seaboard at Myrtle Beach.  So I will be out of pocket from a few minutes from now.

But before I go, here are a few news items for your perusal and comment:

UK Basketball News

• Calipari will be calling in to the NCAA from China.  Hope he has a good long distance plan.
• Calipari not at risk.
• This KU fan gets it exactly right.  Maybe he needs to write for the Herald-Leader.
• Jason King says UK has one of the greatest recruiting classes in NCAA history, and compares the best of the best.
• The Quad does a pretty good job of analyzing the recent kerfuffle over Memphis and John Calipari.
• George Robinson of the Leaf Chronicle says that the solution to all these NCAA issues is to pay the players.  Never heard that before ...
• Chicago Public Schools is reviewing the processes that allowed three players at Simeon High and elsewhere have their grades changed.  That might be a real good idea.
• The Commercial-Appeal says one-and-doners are the problem.  I think they're right, to a point.
• Just what you would expect from the Florida media.  We'll have to hear this again after we spank the Gators next year.
• Jerry Tipton questions Calipari's friends and acquiescences.
• More fear and loathing from Tennessee.