Phil Mickelson carries a rep - a largely bum rep - as being a fingernails-on-chalkboard annoying faker.

But if you want a real sports fraud, you don't have to look far. Especially this time of year. If it's March Madness, you'll have Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski preaching the virtues of sportsmanship in his holier than thou press conferences and then screaming swear words at his players on the sidelines and pleading for yet another grossly Blue Devil favored officiating night.

Coach K is Bobby Knight with a good publicist. Only he lacks any of Knight's realness. No one has a more vile tongue in college basketball than Mike Krzyzewski. Which would be fine if he would just admit who he is: a control freak who berates players, officials, reporters and anyone else who dares get in his way. Instead he waxes poetic about being "an educator" in credit card commercials.

There is nothing more classic than Krzyzewski moaning about how sad it is that people seem to hate a player as classy as JJ Redick. Ah, Coach, that's pretty much because of the arrogant way you've run your program.

And people try to call Phil Mickelson a sports fraud?

Please, he's not even in the mix when it comes to the Krzyzewski level.

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