The man had already coached 541 victories. He had already guided a program from NAIA to Division I, scarcely missing a beat. His teams had already played the role of David, slaying several of college basketball’s Goliaths. He had, in short, already assembled a lifetime body of work any of his […]
Dec. 19–Cincinnati — Andy Kennedy coached his Ole Miss basketball team Thursday night despite his arrest in the wee hours on a charge of assaulting a cab driver.
Cincinnati - Just before walking through the curtain that separated the locker room area from the court, Scott Wilhoit stopped Andy Kennedy and gave him a hug.
Dec. 19–Mississippi men’s basketball coach Andy Kennedy was arrested early Thursday morning in Cincinnati after a 25-year-old cab driver from the African nation of Mauritania said the coach punched him and called him bin Laden and hurled other racial insults at him, The Associated Press reported.
Dec. 19–The arrests of University of Mississippi head men’s basketball coach Andy Kennedy and director of basketball operations Bill Armstrong in Cincinnati after an incident in which Kennedy allegedly assaulted a cab driver, using racial slurs, and Armstrong allegedly was drunk and disorderly, calls for a full and impartial investigation by the university.
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Mississippi coach Andy Kennedy has filed lawsuits for slander and defamation of character against a Cincinnati cab driver who claimed he was assaulted and the valet who saw the altercation and said that Kennedy and the other coaches on the staff were throwing rocks at the taxi.
Top-ranked North Carolina waited for Tyler Hansbrough to make history, then cruised to its latest lopsided victory.
Alix Klineman had 20 kills, Cynthia Barboza added 19 and second-seeded Stanford advanced to its third straight NCAA women’s volleyball title match with a 20-25, 18-25, 25-15, 25-22, 15-13 victory over Texas on Thursday in Omaha, Neb.
MISSISSIPPI — Cincinnati police arrested coach Andy Kennedy early Thursday after a cab driver said the coach punched him while calling him bin Laden and other racial insults.
