Cinderella. (Getty Images)
March Madness is Jack Gohlke, John Calipari and nothing in between. It’s the power and the glory and the collateral wreckage they leave behind. Folk heroes and fallen angels. No room for context or subtlety. It is madness. Truly.
Calipari, the Kentucky coach, wakes up this AM (assuming he slept at all) with $33 mil guaranteed and a legacy that money cannot fix. Gohlke, the Oakland University guard, wakes up this AM (assuming he slept at all) as the most famous name in the history of Rochester, MI, pop. 13,075, home of Oakland, 20 miles north of Detroit, home to novelist Elmore Leonard, serial killer Aileen Wuornos and Madonna. Yes, that Madonna.
All it took was 40 minutes.
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