A longtime aide to Rick Pitino told jurors the Louisville men's
basketball coach asked him to take a woman out of town for medical
services after she said the coach got her pregnant in a one-night
tryst at a restaurant.
West Virginia University says basketball coach Bob Huggins'
rib-breaking fall occurred because medication taken on an empty
stomach left him lightheaded.
The trial of a woman accused of trying to extort Rick Pitino
began its fourth day with a heated exchange Thursday between the
Louisville basketball coach and the woman's attorney.
The NCAA has placed the University of Arizona men's basketball
program on two year's probation and vacated 19 wins from the
2007-08 season for violations involving Hall of Fame coach Lute
Olson.
Jurors in the case of Karen Cunagin Sypher have heard a lot
about the night she met University of Louisville basketball coach
Rick Pitino at an Italian restaurant in Louisville. On Wednesday,
they were expected to hear from Pitino himself.
A spokesman for the West Virginia University basketball team
says further testing has revealed that coach Bob Huggins broke
seven ribs - not four - in a hotel room fall.
Opening statements will begin Monday in the case of a woman
charged with trying to extort University of Louisville basketball
coach Rick Pitino, then lying about it to the FBI.
