Happy Friday, friends. I’m sure many of you will find excuses to slip out of work early today to go enjoy the opening day of the spring meet at Keeneland, a time of year I get so homesick it hurts. If you do head out to the racetrack today, bundle up; highs are only supposed to get in the low 50’s, but something tells me that won’t stop girls from wearing sundresses and cowboy boots or wedges.
For the rest of us, there’s plenty to do, so let’s run through the agenda.
1. Calipari offered Mark Smith
The recruiting dead period ended yesterday at noon and John Calipari went straight to work to shore up Kentucky’s bare cupboard at guard, traveling to Edwardsville, Illinois to visit Mark Smith.