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Tonight, at the United Center watching Derrick Rose and Chicago play Atlanta in the NBA playoffs, John Calipari gives his son Bradley some tips on the game.

(Photo by John Clay)

Jeff Borzello of cbssports.com reports that Ryan Harrow says he will visit UK and Louisville.

Harrow is the N.C. State point guard who was granted his release when Mark Gottfried was named head coach of the Wolfpack.

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Terrence Jones may be on the fence, but don’t look for Brandon Knight to pull his name out of the NBA draft.

ESPN’s Andy Katz just posted a story in which he talks to UK coach John Calipari about the recent combine here this week.

In it, Calipari says:

“You had some guys tell (Jones) he’s a 1-2-3-4 pick in the draft next year and there were some telling him you should go back and there were others saying he should stay in the draft,” Calipari said of Jones. “Brandon got the confirmation that he wanted [that he should stay in the draft] and DeAndre met with five or six teams. Josh met with four teams.”

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With Terrence Jennings signing with an agent for the NBA draft, here’s what the Louisville basketball roster may look like in 2011-12.

With entries having been taken for the Kentucky Derby, we now know that 11 of the trainers have had at least one Derby horse over the last decade. Two trainers, Bob Baffert and Todd Pletcher, have won the race in the last 10 years. Pletcher, Baffert and Nick Zito have all had double-digit entries over the last 10 years.

Seven trainers have a horse entered in their first Derby. Those would be Kathy Ritvo, Jinks Fires, Peter Miller, Juan Arias, Eddie Kenneally, Jeff Bonde and Kathleen O’Connell.

Here is a look at this year’s Derby trainers over the last 10 years.

Scout.com has updated its college recruiting rankings for the Class of 2012.

Two prime Kentucky targets are in the top five.

Shabazz Muhammad is No. 3 on the Scout list. DaJuan Coleman is No. 4.

Here are the top 10:

• 1.    Andre Drummond
• 2.    Isaiah Austin
• 3.   Shabazz Muhammad
• 4.   Dajuan Coleman
• 5.   Kaleb Tarczewski
• 6.   Cameron Ridley
• 7.   Ricardo Ledo
• 8.   Rodney Purvis
• 9.    Brandon Ashley
• 10.   Archie Goodwin

Kevin Ware, the former Tennessee signee who talked to Louisville but committed to Central Florida, just before the New York Times ran a story that questioned the circumstances of his recruiting, among others, has U of L is back on his short list.

Excerpt from the AJC:

Kevin Ware had kept a profile since telling the AJC last Thursday that he was de-committing to Central Florida.

On Tuesday night, the 6-foot-4 guard from Rockdale County High School was active again on his Twitter account and announced “Got my list of schools.”

The world awaited.

Ware tweeted “no order kstate, kansas, uga, ucla, uofl” – which we did our best to translate to Kansas State, Kansas, Georgia, UCLA and Louisville.

Apparently, Central Florida is still a possibility.

Two interesting tweets from Draft Express this morning.

First came this:

And then this:

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Pants On Fire (H-L photo/Jonathan Palmer)

Kentucky Derby links for Wednesday:

• Kentucky Derby Museum rebuilt around Derby experience, writes Greg Kocher of the Herald-Leader.
• Don’t forget Louisiana Derby winner Pants On Fire, says my column.
• Zayat is back in the Kentucky Derby, but not the way he thought, writes Alicia Wincze Hughes of the H-L.
• Retirement didn’t really take for Larry Jones, writes Jason Frakes of the Courier-Journal.
• Horses, not money, determines the Derby winner, says Eric Crawford of the C-J.
• Repole says Uncle Mo could still sit the Derby out, reports Jennie Rees of the C-J.
• Repole is in cautious mode, writes Jerry Bossert of the New York Daily News.
• Wood Memorial winner Toby’s Corner ruled out of the Derby, writes Jesse Halladay of USA Today.
• A once-promising field grows weaker, writes Joe Drape of the New York Times.
• Ramsey overjoyed that Derby Kitten is now in the Derby, reports the Blood-Horse.
• Shackleford could be the one for Dale Romans, says Rick Bozich of the C-J.
• An author’s tribute to Barbaro, reports Mike Jensen of the Philadelphia Inquirer.
• Jeff Bonde realizes Derby dream with Twice the Appeal, writes Monte Poole of the Mercury News.
• Jinks Fires finally saddles a Derby starter, writes Jerry Izenberg of the Newark Star-Ledger.
• Archarcharch is eager, writes Jeff Lowe of Thoroughbred Times.