Today’s column focused, of course, on Connecticut and its continuing response, or non-response, to the Yahoo! report that alleges serious wrongdoing within the Huskies program. But what I also found most curious was how different Jim Calhoun was yesterday from the combative, defiant version of himself we saw when a political activist infiltrated a press conference not long ago to ask Calhoun about his salary. A good guess: He knew he was on the side of the angels that time. This time, not so much.

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Most places in college basketball, you can feel bad about what’s happening to Billy Gillispie at Kentucky, a coach who’s about to get run out of Lexington after just two years. But since that is the ultimate buyer-beware job in sports — you know exactly what you’re getting into when you take that gig — mostly what you feel is empathy for whoever — Billy Donovan? Tom Izzo? Travis Ford? — winds up becoming Gillispie’s successor.