When Mollie McGuire answered the phone on Monday after seeing a number she didn’t recognize, the caller on the other end said, “Hello? This is John Calipari.”
“I was stunned,” McGuire told ESPN.com.
A photo of McGuire’s coal miner husband, Michael, had gone viral after he arrived at Kentucky men’s basketball’s Blue-White scrimmage in Pikeville, Kentucky, on Saturday with fresh soot on his face while wearing his miner’s work uniform and boots.