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Cal philosophy: Under sell/over deliver - Lexington Herald-Leader Posted: 12 Oct 2010 02:25 PM PDT Posted: 5:26 PM ET Tue, Oct. 12, 2010 | Similar stories: Calipari cancels Beshear fund-raiser at home Calipari cancels Beshear fund-raiser at home FRANKFORT — Within hours after the media began reporting Wednesday that University of Kentucky men's basketball coach John Calipari would host a $1,000-a-person fund-raiser at his Lexington home for Gov. Steve Beshear, Calipari changed his mind. "I hope by now you all realize that I don't take my position as your basketball coach lightly," Calipari said on his Facebook page about 9:40 p.m. "I know how politically charged this state is and I recognize that the Big Blue Nation comes from both sides of the aisle. I appreciate every elected official who supports the University of Kentucky, regardless of party. "That said, the governor's event planned for August 11 — along with other charitable functions scheduled for our home — have been canceled after realizing the full plate of both professional and pressing, personal matters I will be tending to in the next couple of months. Ellen and I do hope this discussion will lead you to exercise your right to vote in the upcoming elections." Calipari has no comment on Bledsoe investigation Calipari has no comment on Bledsoe investigation During a break at the Southeastern Conference Spring Meeting in Destin, Fla., Wednesday, reporters caught up with Kentucky Coach John Calipari and asked for his reaction to The New York Times' story reporting an ongoing NCAA investigation into Eric Bledsoe's eligibility. "I'm not," Calipari said before restarting his response. "We responded to it. I'm not going to respond to that stuff." When asked about his name being linked to NBA coaching jobs, Calipari was direct. UK re-assigns Strickland; Barnhart 'very confident' Calipari staying UK re-assigns Strickland; Barnhart 'very confident' Calipari staying Rod Strickland will no longer have coaching duties. Deputy Director of Athletics Rob Mullens will work as a day-to-day liaison between the coaches and athletic administration. Kentucky announced those changes to UK basketball going forward on Thursday. But Athletics Director Mitch Barnhart dismissed speculation about another seismic change: Coach John Calipari leaving after one season. Job rumors part of the Calipari package Job rumors part of the Calipari package Welcome to the First Annual "Will Cal Stay" Watch. That's how a reader began an e-mail response to last Sunday's note about John Calipari 's many flirtations with other jobs while Memphis coach. That attention-grabbing start to an e-mail sparked the need to see whether the pattern was the same when Calipari coached at Massachusetts. It was. Barnhart says restructuring Calipari's contract sends a message Barnhart says restructuring Calipari's contract sends a message Speculation about John Calipari leaving surfaces. His bosses rework his contract. This exercise was repeated again and again in Calipari's nine seasons at Memphis. So no surprise that when Calipari-to-the-NBA rumors swirled this spring, Kentucky officials began restructuring the coach's contract. When asked why he'd restructure a deal that has seven years and tens of millions of dollars remaining, UK Athletics Director Mitch Barnhart said, "Any time you have success, we want to make sure we don't ignore it." During an appearance at the University of Kentucky's Academics-Athletics Forum on Tuesday, basketball coach John Calipari shared his basic philosophy. "Under sell, over deliver," he said to a campus audience of 68, counting media members in attendance. "I'll have to do a little bit of that this year." Calipari suggested that UK's schedule this coming season will make it difficult to over deliver. If the Cats play Michigan State in the EA Sports Maui Invitational, the team will face the nation's toughest schedule, he said. "Last year, we scheduled for the No. 1 seed (in the NCAA Tournament)," Calipari said. "Now I kind of screwed up a little bit. I over-scheduled. We'll lose some games early. "We probably need to get them to grow up. This team needs to get knocked around. Last year, we needed to learn to play together." Comments The Herald-Leader allows readers to comment on stories; the views expressed here are not those of the Herald-Leader or its staff. Readers must avoid personal attacks and libelous or inappropriate remarks, and users who violate our commenting policies can be banned from the site. See our commenting policy here. Some comments may be reprinted in the newspaper. Registered user names are posted with comments. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php Five Filters featured article: Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-Reporting of Falluja's Cancer Catastrophe.

Android's Open Philosophy Repairs Its Biggest Flaws - Motley Fool Posted: 12 Oct 2010 12:09 PM PDT By Anders Bylund | More Articles October 12, 2010 | The Android Market is the weakest point of Google's (Nasdaq: GOOG) Android strategy. It's a weak imitation of the Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) App Store, devoid of the clever search and organization finesse one would expect from an information expert like Google. Developers often have a hard time getting their apps in front of their customers; end users have trouble finding the apps they actually want. If Google doesn't fix this big problem, maybe somebody else will. Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) is reportedly working on a third-party Android app store. Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) is supposedly working up its own version. If one of these alternatives turns out to be easier to use than the original Google-backed marketplace, it stands to reason that users would quickly jump ship to the better solution. Google won't stop us, because that would be against the open-source philosophy behind the whole Android platform. That's also the reason why Google isn't telling Verizon (NYSE: VZ) to stop using Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) Bing instead of Google Search on some of its Android phones, and why the company isn't dictating what software goes into a proper Android handset in general. The one exception is that you need a certain set of Google-branded features in order to get a "with Google" logo on the phone. I fully expect both Amazon and Best Buy to come through -- not only with new market solutions but with better ones. These are consumer-oriented companies with tons of design and usability experience, while Google is running Android more like an engineer than a marketer or a designer. The appearance of other alternatives will eventually force Google to get its own offering up to par, and so the virtuous cycle keeps spiraling until the app-installing experience stops being the saddest part of owning an Android phone -- or developing programs for them. In fact, Google seems to have caught that fever already. Older Android phones have recently received an upgraded Market application ripped from the Froyo version of the platform. Phones as old as last year's HTC myTouch 3G now enjoy refinements like one-click updating of all installed applications and a nicer presentation of what each program is good for. But the sub-par search experience remains, and Google really should do better. Is the lousy app market keeping you from buying an Android -- and would a better one change your mind? Discuss in the comments below. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php Five Filters featured article: Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-Reporting of Falluja's Cancer Catastrophe.

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