How did Rick Pitino, a coach at the University of Louisville, disappoint his wife Joanne and the school?
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The woman accused of trying to extort Louisville men’s basketball coach Rick Pitino approached him in a Louisville restaurant six years ago, and the two had sex later that night, the coach told police. Two weeks after they met, she told him she was pregnant, and he gave her $3,000 for an abortion. The Courier-Journal of Louisville reported on its Web site Tuesday that Pitino told police he had been drinking in a Louisville restaurant and had consensual sex with Karen Sypher in August 2003. The police report said the 56-year-old coach denied Sypher’s allegations that he raped her after the restaurant closed and at another time somewhere else. The two met when Sypher approached him at the restaurant and asked him call her sons with words of encouragement, and the coach obliged, she said. Later that night, the restaurant cleared out, and the owner left the coach his keys. That’s when they had sex. She claimed Pitino forced himself on her, while the coach said she came on
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The woman accused of trying to extort Louisville men’s basketball coach Rick Pitino approached him in a Louisville restaurant six years ago, and the two had sex later that night, the coach told police. Two weeks after they met, she told him she was pregnant, and he gave her $3,000 for an abortion. The Courier-Journal of Louisville reported on its Web site Tuesday that Pitino told police he had been drinking in a Louisville restaurant and had consensual sex with Karen Sypher in August 2003. The police report said the 56-year-old coach denied Sypher’s allegations that he raped her after the restaurant closed and at another time somewhere else. The two met when Sypher approached him at the restaurant and asked him call her sons with words of encouragement, and the coach obliged, she said. Later that night, the restaurant cleared out, and the owner left the coach his keys. That’s when they had sex. She claimed Pitino forced himself on her, while the coach said she came on
