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The game over, the questions answered, Jim Calhoun walked gingerly down the hallway at the Verizon Center, talking quietly with George Blaney, his aide-de-camp and sounding board through thick and thin.
This month would qualify as thin, certainly one of the toughest stretches during Calhoun's long and successful career at UConn. Along with the grueling schedule that a coach must maintain, it must be wearing on him, although he hardly shows it. "I'm going to keep working," he vowed.
After getting home late from D.C., Calhoun was under the weather Thursday, took a day to himself and called on Blaney to stand in for him on the
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