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Despite NCAA's Genuflection, Bruce Pearl Doesn't Walk on Water

Bruce Pearl is nice guy. I reached that conclusion a couple years ago when he introduced himself to me on press row at an NCAA Tournament site. His Tennessee guys were fresh off of a win, and he and his coaching staff were scouting the next game that would produce their next opponent. The Vols' seats were next to mine....

Pitino Says 'No Truth' to Nets Report

Rick Pitino isn't leaving Louisville for the New Jersey Nets, according to a newspaper interview Thursday. "There's absolutely no truth to it. I shouldn't address it because there's no truth to it," Pitino told the Louisville Courier-Journal. "[New Jersey Nets president] Rod Thorn is a longtime friend of mine. The only...

Karen Sypher: I Wanted Rick Pitino's Baby, He Forced Me to Have an Abortion

Karen Sypher, the woman who is accused of extorting Rick Pitino and is in turn accusing Pitino of sexually assaulting her and encouraging her to get an abortion, has begun speaking out publicly about what she says Pitino did to her.Sypher and Pitino agree on a few things: That the two met in a Louisville restaurant on...

Louisville Boss Looks the Other Way After Pitino's Cardinal Sin

Who knows who was the first college chancellor or president to abdicate his or her responsibility as chief executive officer of their college campus? Who knows when that superior first exhibited so much spinelessness?All we know for certain is who the newest university boss is, in what is a lengthening line, to wobble on...

College Basketball's Top 25 Coaches

In an effort to talk about something college basketball-related other than scandals in the summer, let's talk best current coaches. We'll attempt to order the top 25 current coaches in the nation. This is about the present and the future, not the distant past. What a guy did in the mid-90s doesn't matter near as much as...

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05/23/12 Jabari Parker: "I Like Rick Pitino And Louisville" Source: Card Chronicle After being placed on the cover of Sports Illustrated and given the title of "the best high school player since Lebron" earlier this month, Jabari Parker has become one of the hottest topics in non-professional basketball.
05/20/12 The C-J's Sunday College Basketball Notebook | Peyton... Source: The Courier-Journal - Louisville KY Get enough rest so that the ankle he sprained back in November finally can fully heal. 2.
05/18/12 Preakness 2012 | Rick Pitino hopes he won't blow this... Source: The Courier-Journal - Louisville KY When Rick Pitino was hanging out one morning at Churchill Downs during Derby Week, the University of Louisville mens basketball coach wasnt simply another celebrity chatting up trainer Doug ONeill about Ill Have Anothers chances.
05/17/12 Cal, Pitino, K Highest-Paid College Hoops Coaches Source: Zag's Blog Men's college basketball coaches make slightly less on average than their football brethren, with an average salary of $1.4 million among coaches at public universities who made the NCAA tournament.
05/15/12 Judges in Pitino extortion appeal named Source: Kentucky Post - Covington KY A three-judge federal appeals panel including one jurist from Louisville will hear an appeal from a woman convicted of trying to extort University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino.