The University of Georgia women's tennis team maintained its number two spot in the latest Campbell/ITA Top 25 Rankings, released by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Tuesday.
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Auburn’s practice tonight has been postponed due to expected heavy rain in Auburn throughout the evening. The Tigers will now practice Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. There are also practices scheduled Thursday and Saturday….

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Todd Van Emst, Auburn U.Defensive coordinator Ted Roof during a recent practice. * Although coaches initially billed sophomore Vance Smith’s move from tight end to tackle as “experimental,” Smith said he thinks the move will be permanent. He’s bulked up…

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They’re kind of losing it over there in Kentucky. After staring at a University of Memphis office door for most of the day yesterday, today our comrade in SEC blogging Truzenzuzex at A Sea of Blue writes:

“The Big Blue Nation has officially gone off the proverbial reservation.  No work is getting done anywhere where there are a significant number of Kentucky fans.  I am declaring this a statewide holiday in Kentucky, so just kiss off your work, tell your Louisville-loving boss to pound sand, and use your work computer to view that … @#@#$% white door.

The madness is complete, my sanity has been traded in for a white metal door in a brick building.  Fortunately, I have no hair to pull out.  As we speak, the men in white suits are pulling up and are bringing restraining devices, straight-jackets, and assorted tranquilizing agents dripping from six-inch needles.”

Every post over there is getting 400+ comments, by the way.

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The Memphis Commercial Appeal has called it. Kentucky Sports Radio is in the black, which means that rabid Kentucky fans are checking it out non-stop, and A Sea of Blue has called it.

This is a straight up good hire for Kentucky. Calipari can recruit, coach, pretty much all they need. He may recruit dirt bags, get schools into scandals, and refer to hispanic reporters as mexican idiots but when you only care about winning championships who cares right? Right?

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Memphis Coach John Calipari left his home late Tuesday afternoon in a three-car caravan.

Calipari was in the middle car while his wife, Ellen, and a son were in the third vehicle.

The Memphis Commercial Appeal reported that Calipari and his family were headed to the airport to board a private plane for a flight to Lexington.

The newspaper later confirmed that Calipari had decided to become Kentucky’s next basketball coach.

UK is expected to announce Calipari as its new coach later Tuesday. A formal introductory news conference will be held on Wednesday.

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Update: Story by H-L.

The Memphis Commercial Appeal is reporting that John Calipari is indeed leaving Memphis to become the head coach at Kentucky.

Lead:

After nearly a full day of reflection and struggle, John Calipari decided today to accept the head coaching job at Kentucky and leave the University of Memphis after nine seasons, according to a source close to Calipari.
University of Memphis basketball coach John Calipari resigned and will take the head coaching position at the University of Kentucky.

A news conference to introduce Calipari as the new Kentucky coach will take place Wednesday in Lexington, Ky.

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Memphis Commerical Appeal reporting that the Caliparis have left their house and believed to be on way to airport to board a 6:15 p.m. flight to Lexington.

Here’s believed to be the flightplan.

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When the Commercial-Appeal reports it, I am calling it official.

John Calipari is officially the 21st Head Men’s Basketball Coach at the University of Kentucky.

This has been one heck of a day.  Half of the Commonwealth has been following this story, and there was all kinds of drama — from white doors to gates to helicopters to airplanes …  You know the drill.

But barring a Dana Altman, John Calipari has made up his mind and will take on the challenge of guiding the most storied college basketball program in America from it’s current irrelevance back to national respectability.

These last three weeks have been a wild ride.  At this point in time, I have no interest whatever in rehashing the events of the past, because the future looks so promising at this particular moment.  John Calipari will be embraced by the Big Blue Nation, and he is one of the few coaches in America with the automatic stature, credibility and ego to take on this iconic position.  There will be no learning curve, and if you think expectations were high before, welcome to the quantum leap.

I will have much more on this tomorrow, but for now, I just want to welcome Coach Calipari and his family to the Kentucky family.  We are glad to have you, and confident that the Big Blue Nation and the legacy of Adolph Rupp, Joe B. Hall, Rick Pitino and Tubby Smith are now in capable hands.

So I hope you will all join me in welcoming the new Head Wildcat.  May his reign be long, prosperous and filled with lots and lots of shiny hardware.