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John Calipari On Midnight Madness: ‘Best I Ever Had, Best I Ever Haddd’

Well, say this for Kentucky’s John Calipari: As players’ coaches go, he’s certainly one of the hippest ones in the business. USC’s Pete Carrol, for example, might have invited Snoop Dogg to a USC practice and considered it a roaring success. Borrrring. Not Calipari, though, who brought in Drake, hip hop’s fastest rising star, to act as an honorary coach at Kentucky’s Midnight Madness this past Friday.

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↵With Calipari, Drake, and Kentucky’s uber-recruit John Wall all in the same place, I’m frankly a bit surprised the universe didn’t collapse under the weight of all the expectations and hype regarding those three.

↵(But regardless, at least nobody stole a cop’s gun and shot a toilet. Because that would be... weird, Georgetown, just weird.)

↵UPDATE: Louisville fans, sadly were forced to endure another week of Steve Kragthorpe coaching, and a Drake parody.

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