John Calipari’s story about playing golf with Barack Obama is a treasure trove of incredible content

John Calipari is a rambler and a gambler—a smooth talker and a straight shooter. He's a sugar-tongued schmoozer with a gift for spin rivaled only by history's greatest political figures, with whom, according to his latest yarn, he sometimes plays golf. Last week, Calipari, better known by his alter-ego Coach Cal, met with reporters to begin the annual build up to Kentucky basketball season, but soon the conversation turned to a more important topic: A recent round of golf with former president Barack Obama.
“I met a guy. We talked and he was a big basketball fan and a big fan of mine,” Calipari began. “He said he was friends with President Obama and I said, ‘Wow, that’s something.’ He said, ‘If you ever want to golf with him…’ I’m shameless. You don’t say that to me.”
Soon after, Calipari was in Boston on vacation and called in a favor to his guy.
“I said, ‘Is he [Barack Obama] still at Martha’s Vineyard? Can I [see him]?’ He calls me and he said, ‘Next Friday the president w..

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Happy Monday: Here’s a painting of Phil Mickelson dressed as a 17th century Dutch cavalier

Phil Mickelson's foray into social media the past year has produced its share of art works. But the masterpiece—or should we say, Masters piece—that made the digital rounds on Monday takes that phenomenon to a new level.
Matt Landers is a painter specializing in oil canvasing. A fact we only know thanks to this thing of beauty:
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According to the caption, Landers is putting together a series of Masters' champions seen through the prisms of “old masters” paintings. This Mickelson joie de vivre is an homage to Dutch painter Frans Hals' “Laughing Cavalier.” Or, as Landers says with a nod to Phil's workout routines, the “Laughing Calf-alier.”
“Activating the calves while painting has transformed my brushwork, especially in areas of high detail. Painting bombs,” Landers says. “However, the initial inspiration was simply that I thought ‘The Laughing Cavalier’ was just a perfect way to sum up one of my boyhood hero’s personality and how he plays the ..

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