Calipari told reporters his current and former programs have discussed playing an exhibition game ahead of the 2025-26 season in conjunction with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. “We talked ...

Calipari told reporters his current and former programs have discussed playing an exhibition game ahead of the 2025-26 season in conjunction with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

When St. Jude opened in 1962, Danny Thomas vowed the hospital would treat patients regardless of race, religion or ability to pay. Dr. Rudolph Jackson was one of the first black doctors at St. Jude.