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Tag Archive for ‘Jim Calhoun’

Online overkill – week of March 23

Good, bad, annoying or shady, these were the items that made frequent appearances in my RSS reader this week. Obama’s Teleprompter. The right-wing teleprompter meme has been played up so much lately, the electronic note card machine has its own blog. The blog is kind of funny, even if making fun of a president for […]

A blog story, I guess

It was a newspaper story that … it wasn’t a newspaper, I’m sorry. It was a blog story that appeared, I guess, in something I probably can’t get a hold of, which is Yahoo! And very simply my comments are what I said. -Jim Calhoun, responding to a six-month investigation by two award-winning sportswriters into […]

Jim Calhoun’s tirade

Apparently, some lawmakers in Connecticut aren’t too happy with the way the state’s highest paid employee acted in what has probably become the most viral post-game press conference video since “I’m a man, I’m 40.“

Who owned whom?

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xokthY5zuPU&hl=en&fs=1] Let me get this straight. UConn basketball coach Jim Calhoun completely overreacts to an out of left field question by a reporter about his salary and the state’s debt, looks like an unreasonable jerk doing it and yet somehow ends up “owning” the reporter? Calhoun’s $1.6 million-plus salary is what it is. If it’s […]