University of Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari hasn't had a whole lot of success lately. At least, not for a traditional power such as Kentucky basketball.
Still, Calipari is a household name in the sports world. So you'd think that the very least, people from Kentucky in the sports world could spell his last name right.
Apparently, that was too much to ask of the Lexington Herald-Leader, which just happens to be the University of Kentucky's hometown newspaper. In a giant deadline referencing the coach, they called him "Kalipari."
Guess not everyone in the state is a Wildcats fan. Or a fan of sports at all.
Granted, whoever wrote the "Kalipari" story is the person who will be taking flak from the general public. But it wasn't actually that person's fault.
Instead, it was the fault of a copy editor and perhaps the rest of the editorial staff.
This is an unbelievable error by the Herald Leader
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— Matt Jones (@KySportsRadio) March 25, 2024
"One would imagine that somebody, anybody, involved with the Herald-Leader would have noticed John Calipari's name misspelled before Monday's edition of the paper was printed, but no,' wrote Mark Harris of Outkick. "You would also assume that every single person living in Lexington, Kentucky would know how to spell Calipari's last name, but that is clearly not the case."
Seriously. Is there a bigger name in Lexington these days?
Harris brought up some valid points about all this. Namely, you never would have seen such an embarrassing error in newspapers, say, 30 years ago.
But the Internet came along, followed by social media, and these days, a lot of people don't even realize that newspapers exist. Mostly, it's caused newspapers to cut every possible financial corner, and now, it seems, they're barely hanging on. A massive staff shortage leads to errors like the one involving the Herald-Leader.
Then again, you could argue that the newspaper still has had a better March than the coach.
