Can't make this up, and Mailbagg™ wouldn't even try: Flood waters were rising in Indiana as former IU coach Kelvin Sampson's redemption was bubbling to the surface.

Excellent piece about Kelvin Sampson. It closely resembles my own ... desperate or arrogant. I am glad Gregg Popovich threw him a lifeline in San Antonio, and Kelvin has climbed out.

The University of Houston and the University of Florida play tonight in the NCAA men's basketball championship. The Gators have won two previous titles and Houston hopes to claim its first.

Kelvin Sampson watched all of this from the Alamodome ... Within days of Sampson leaving Indiana, Gregg Popovich invited him to come hang out and observe the Spurs during their playoff run ...

Kelvin Sampson and Indiana divorced less than two ... Sampson served alongside then-Stanford coach Mike Montgomery and Spurs coach Gregg Popovich. "That started a friendship that is strong ...

His name was Kelvin Sampson. Montana Tech's 77-67 win was ... "I saw Tubby (Smith) and Rick Barnes, Tom Izzo, Pop (Gregg Popovich), a bunch of the older coaches. They all kind of had similar ...

We’ve recognized Kelvin Sampson as an incredible coach ... retrospective wisdom of the second chances he was given, by Gregg Popovich in the NBA and at Houston. He was raised in tobacco-stained ...