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Perception and reality wage another battle in the sports word

By Tim Keown
Page 2

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Jim Calhoun had a verbal fracas with a local gadfly/reporter in a postgame press conference on Saturday. The gadfly, Ken Krayeske, hit Calhoun with a question about Connecticut's state budget deficit as it relates to Calhoun's status as the state's highest-paid public employee. Calhoun made the point that he wouldn't give back anything -- "not a dime" -- before devolving into an arrogant diatribe about his importance to the state's economy. His point was valid, but he probably could have made i ...

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