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Lost your job? John Calipari can help you

By Sam Alipour
Special to Page 2

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

John Calipari straight-up laughed at me. Or was it with me? I'm not really sure. I am, however, certain that the Memphis Tigers men's basketball coach called me "a walking billboard" for his upcoming book "Bouncing Back," a how-to for losers like him and me … er, men and women who've been fired. In the book, Calipari recounts his comeback after getting canned as the New Jersey Nets' head coach and executive VP of basketball operations in 1999, just one year after leading the team to its ...

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