Butler athletic director Barry Collier acted fast over the holiday weekend, and on July 6, he named the newly-hired Miller as Stevens’ successor. After speaking with new USC coach Andy Enfield and new UCLA coach Steve Alford in the past couple of weeks, RTC correspondent Walker Carey (@walkerRcarey) recently had the pleasure of speaking to new Butler coach Brandon Miller (@BUCoachMiller) about his playing days at Butler, his coaching career to this point, Butler’s recent summer trip to Australia, and the coach’s outlook on the future of Butler basketball.

RTC: You took the Butler job under unique circumstances. You had just arrived back at the school in April expecting to serve on Brad Stevens’ staff, but three months later, Stevens was off to the Boston Celtics and you wereNatalie Cole, legendary songstress, dead at 65

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Legendary blues man B.B. King, along with his ever-present guitar Lucille, spent nearly 70 years entertaining audiences and spreading the music he learned as a poverty-stricken youth in the Mississippi Delta all over the world. King, 89, died in Las Vegas on May 14.

Percy Sledge, the R&B legend who memorably sang/cried, "When A Man Loves a Woman," helped usher in an era in which black and white entertainers came together. Sledge was an icon of the "Muscle Shoals sound," named for the city near his hometown of Leighton, Ala., known since the 1960s for local reco...