Thursday March 26, 2009
Maybe UConn hoop icon Jim “Not One Dime”Calhoun was crying for help when he exploded a few weeks back at a reporter who questioned his big-bucks salary at a time of statewide fiscal crisis.
For a guy who works the referees along the sideline for any little break in the rules, Calhoun should have known that his school-issued cellphone was open for inspection under state Freedom of Information Act rules, which Yahoo! Sports found yesterday was used to call a former prospect 16 times in apparent violation of NCAA rules.
He could have easily put Nate Miles on his personal “friends and family” plan, far from the scruntiy of pesky reporters who, unlike most of the scribes who report on UConn basketball, don’t believe Calhoun walks on water.
