
As the bus carrying the Kentucky basketball team crept from its hotel to the Wildcats’ game at Auburn last Saturday, John Calipari sat in the front row texting with a businessman back in Lexington. From the pregame locker room, he took a call from another one. He was the head coach of the No. 2 team in America, about to deal with a conference road game, and yet his mind was at least partially focused on trying to set up a whirlwind, last-minute telethon for victims of the Haitian earthquake.