John Calipari - photo by Lucy Nicholson | Reuters
The University of Hawaii won a men’s volleyball championship in 2002. Or did it? Coach John Calipari earned his 500th college basketball victory last season. Or did he? For dozens of universities across collegiate sports, for the players who competed, for the officials who whistled fouls and for the fans who paid for tickets, those games happened. Yet, technically, they did not. Welcome to the fuzzy world of modern college athletics, where the N.C.A.A. often requires teams to vacate victories…
