Someone sure is sensitive about this issue.
Calhoun and UConn have far more important issues to worry about. If you were to go over any big program with a fine tooth comb, I'm sure you could find more of this.
That being said, obviously he was dead wrong and completely ignorant in his comment, but I think he did the right thing in avoiding discussing it before a big game.

"I would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for those damn kids and their Facespace-Tweeters-RSS-blog-a-wiki-doo-hickeys, always meddling in my business. GET OFF MY LAWN!!!
Oh, and what the fukc is a Yahoo! anyway?!"
Oh, this isn't a C-a-C?

As a former CT resident and longtime fan of UConn sports, I hope this gets the state government and administration to focus on problems with UConn sports. Alot of good, hard work has gone into developing a high quality sports program at UConn, and they are risking all that to go after players of low moral character, regardless of their ability, and and by engaging in questionable admissions and recruiting practices. Take the high road.

yea u are in trouble you punk......good think it happend while you were in the middle of the tourney ...shouldnt mess you guys up hahahha.....check out d a i l y b a l l b r e a k e r s for some great sports fun with great sports topics updated daily for you.......

It is rather odd how such a well documented incident took so long to surface. Not only how long, but when. Right before their sweet 16 game.... I am sure most of the college recruits in the country get some good treatment. They just got caught

Eamonn is the man!

What I found most odd was how quickly the hoops media at the press conference yesterday just rolled over after Calhoun said he wouldn't talk about it anymore. Where were all the typical needlers that ask the question knowing they won't get the answer but hoping instead for the angry reaction they could write a story about. It amazes me the double-standard applied sometimes.

If only these "award-winning journalists" had bothered to speak with Nate Miles' guardian. LOL!

Is anyone else surprised that Yahoo! even still exists? Their search engine gets about 2% of the internet's traffic. Their news and sports section get even less. I'm surprised the company hasn't gone under yet. Only a matter of time though.

the article was not exactly "breaking news" as billed to be by yahoo. a few phone calls and some food or clothes? and this doesn't happen at which major schools? the country is in the toilet and yahoo sports delivers this? i agree, yahoo sports reporting is basically a joke. anything that dan wetzel is involved in is pathetically done.

When the story first broke, I read it, thought it had merit.... BUT- it turns out the story is a couple years old [& known], the player concerned never played a minute, an improper number of phonecalls by staff to an ambiguously titled middleman is the crux of the issue, there's even a question as to the rule on the status of text msgs for the year in question... way too much fuzzy material here to warrant the headlines.
Point is, it's hardly a clearcut case of misconduct, and yet Yahoo Sports can't write a story mentioning the team without reiterating the story and Yahoo's role in it. Where are the supposed free thinkers on the staff that might doubt the prevailing narrative? You can't tell me everyone on staff is on board here.
It's all the more frustrating that I'm NOT a UCONN fan, I don't enjoy empathizing with those folks.

Let me start by saying I live in the midwest and that doesn't make me a big Huskie fan. I think this story call into question the reporting of Wetzel and YAHOO and sadly their credibility. I am assuming the story is more true than not because of some of the evidence and thought yahoo and it's reporters above board. Part right, part wrong. Supposedly this story has been investigated for quite some time and from what I read is far from over. The problem I have seeing the lenght of time involved is the release of this story now. Yeah we were investigating for some time, but lets publish it now since UCONN has made the 16. Let's not wait until after the tournament, we can get more sensationalism now!! Where's your credibility guys? You bet on some other team and think you can upset the UCONN team and win a few bucks. These young men playing for UCONN had nothing to do with the issue so why put more pressure and scrutiny on them while their on the biggest stage of their basketball lives. My opinion is that it was a bad bad call on YAHOOS part and says a lot about Wetzels character. Well would, if he had any!!!!

UCONN has a pathetic men's basketball graduation rate. Looks like UCONN wants to win any way they can. I am not a UCONN fan and really don't care except I like teams to win the right way. UCONN just wants to win and could care less about how they do it.

Conspiracy anglet: could this story have anything to do with ESPN being based in Storrs, Connecticut? Just thinking out loud....

Tiger, how do they rank within the better 100 teams? I myself don't know, but would like to see such a chart. What was your source? UCONN has had a few guys leave early for the NBA, but it's the players who disappear from a roster before graduation that we should all worry most about. However, we do have to give uconn a small break on account of their having never suited the guy, and not trying to rehabilitate him so he could play. [Calhoun probably wanted to.]

In my opinion, this is just a publicity grab for Yahoo, figuring that they'd better make a big deal about this before uconn loses in the tournament. A good way to increase hits on the site during a crunch time.

All I have to say is that this type of "reporting" shows desperation by an internet sports service that is trying to be an investigative form of journalism. The reason why it catches everyone's attention is because UCONN now is playing in the regional final and these allegations are against a Hall of Fame Coach in the tourney over wise no one would be talking about it. Miles never even played for the school, not one minute so technically he never was on the team. I am sure the NCAA will see it that way. I am sure there are other coached and schools in the tournament that have done far worse. I never thought Yahoo! sports which is primarily suppose to provide all my scores, highlights, rankings, and stats as well as blogs (because they all work together including the so-called staff. I know because I have had e-mail correspondence with many of the staff who create the topics for these BLOGS) I am in shock that they would be trying to sabotage my favorite team with comments like "they cheat" "more dirt" "they lie" "UConn violated this" "UConn broke rules." "Coach Calhoun Avoids Questions" These are ONLY THEIR ALLEGATIONS FROM THIS INTERNET SPORTS SERVICE AND NO ONE ELSES. Until the NCAA committee says so, they guys need to SHUT THEIR MOUTHS. All they are doing is alienating readers and sports enthusiasts. There are other internet sports engines to log on to such as MSN, ESPN.COM, AOL SPORTS, WOW SPORTS, and a list of other sites. By continuing to write inflammatory comments about UConn, Yahoo! sports is going to lose internet readers and subscribers. They may think they are doing such a service with these allegations but they are not. It is with prejudice and it is very self-serving. And these guys Wetzel, Wojo, and King and the other boneheads who think they are Woodward and Bernstein they eventually are going to just be laughed at by the sports world when their months of investigation of UConn is looked as just another fluff piece.
GO HUSKIES BEAT MISSOURI!!!! It is so unfair that I cannot enjoy or focus on my teams advancement in the tourney without such vindictiveness and hostility. Coach Calhoun is one of the best coaches in America. Do you really think he would risk his reputation and legacy to get in trouble with the NCAA after 37 years of coaching?

you are making a mountain out of a molehill... why don't we ask Amir Panchmatia what he thinks about adrian wojnarowski's cavalier attitude? maybe yahoo should comment on that one...

I agree with poster 4 BigBoo. I am a Purdue fan. After watching UConn's athleticism overmatch Purdue. With UConn's pedigree... Why would UConn waste their time going after someone like Miles with his history? Then to keep in contact with Notchism after one of your past all time Star's (R. Hamilton) just fired the guy over stealing $1 mil? I wonder what relationship between Hamilton and UConn B-Ball is like right now. UConn doesn't need a guy like Miles and now it looks like they are going to get hit by NCAA. If the charges are really serious. Oh and TopHuskey #18 your allegiance to UConn has BLINDED YOU!!!! It looks like Calhoun has already risked his rep and legacy. That original article has phone records receipts amd witnesses.

I live in Indiana. Alot of you posters sound like IU fans after Coach Denim shirt was first accussed at school with violating more phone call transgressions. Then after finally agreeing to leave with buyout. With almost whole roster gone. It was found majority of ex players were not going to class and some were using drugs. Not saying ths is happening at UConn obviously. But my point is this: "Everyone is doing it" or "use a fine tooth brush against any school" argument is EXACTLY what IU fans said. Look where IU program is now... REBUILDING.

Calhoun is simply the typical SOB in big time sports who actually believes his own crap and that he's actually contributing to something important. Heaven forbid, our society would know the names of people curing diseases and making other significant contributions. He's such a putz.

Maybe Yahoo should just clam up, and sell their beloved stories at a better time.

Political artical from that does a dis-service to the UCONN Men's Basketball Players (team members).
Senior/Junior status important, text messages not regulated, at time of allegations. If former coach, Tom Moore let his friendship with Josh Nochimson cross the line then let UCONN be punished for the rules their staff violated.
As for your quote below
"Only problem is that dismissing this -- which was written and edited by award-winning professional journalists who no doubt worked light years harder on it than I am currently working on this blog post -- in such a manner does a huge disservice to those reporters. They sonned you on this one. You don't have to read the story in newsprint to know that. What was it you said to that kid who asked you about your salary? "Get some facts, and then come back and see me?" Wojnarowski and Wetzel got the facts on this one, Jim. "
Seems like unsubstantiated one-sided PUNK ASS gotcha journalism without facts.
And all I see on this ESPN wanna be web site are leading stories about your allegations and nothing about the men's team victory over a good Purdue basketball team.
Time for YAHOO's reign as a stand alone company to end. Microsoft, save them for they know not what they do.