A decade ago, when he was coach of the Boston Celtics, Rick Pitino spoke bluntly but with compassion about the sexual encounter that forced the firing of his then-assistant coach Winston Bennett, a former UK basketball star.
The University of Kentucky filed a countersuit Thursday against former basketball coach Billy Gillispie asking a Franklin Circuit Court judge to rule that the memorandum of understanding UK had with Gillispie is not a formal contract.
Former Kentucky Coach Tubby Smith defended the mega money UK will pay new coach John Calipari. During a Thursday news conference in Detroit for the National Association of Basketball Coaches at the Final Four, a reporter noted that a university president had used the words "mind-boggling" and "eye-popping" to describe Calipari's eight-year, $31.65 million contract to be Kentucky's coach.
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LEXINGTON — The hand-delivered letter informing Billy Gillispie he was being fired as Kentucky's basketball coach cites his refusal to sign a formal contract as a specific reason for the "incompatibility" between the school and its former coach.
