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To hear Howard Avery describe it, Kentucky coach Billy Gillispie knew nothing of his son when their paths happened to cross at a recent AAU basketball event. As fate would have it, though, that chance encounter led to a scholarship offer from the Wildcats and perhaps the earliest verbal commitment in the history of college basketball's winningest program. Michael Avery, a 6-foot-4 eighth-grader from Lake Sherwood, Calif., says he will play for the Cats. Now on with the business of finding a high school. "That's the funny thing," Howard Avery said with laugh. "We've got our college. Now we need...

Someone or some people are going to have to go at Colorado. It seems inevitable. A scandal of this magnitude does not pass without a head on a stick being paraded through the village. He/she/they have wronged us. Here is the result of his/her/their impudence. Attila the Hun, meet Gary the Barnett. This is not to say that Colorado's football coach should or will get fired in the still-evolving recruiting scandal at CU (Flatirongate?). But let's just say that it doesn't pay to be a lightning rod these days in the foothills. Barnett and his boss, athletic director Dick Tharp,...