Louisville and NC And we are bad for helping on a course

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Really NCAA - SMU is one of the 4 smallest universities in the ncaa - that means we don't bring in money for STUFF. That is the issue and the ncaa is bogus.

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Rick Patino and restaurant scandel

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Louisville coach Rick Pitino told police that he had consensual sex with and paid for an abortion for the woman who has been charged with trying to extort him, the Louisville Courier-Journal reported on Tuesday.

Karen Cunagin Sypher was federally charged in April with demanding cars, tuition for her children and finally $10 million. Police interviewed Pitino, who is married with five children, regarding the incident last month, and according to the newspaper, he said that he gave the woman $3,000 to have an abortion.



Rick Pitino reportedly revealed details of his relationship with a woman who has been charged with extorting him. AP Photo/Ed Reinke

Police records obtained by the Courier-Journal show that, according to Pitino, the then Karen Cunagin approached him in a Louisville restaurant where he had been drinking on Aug. 1, 2003, and the two had sex later that night.

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.

Pitino denied Cunagin Sypher's allegations that he raped her at the restaurant and then again later at a different location.

Cunagin Sypher's attorney, James Earhart, said Wednesday morning that he hadn't yet talked to Sypher about the release of the police documents, but planned to later in the day. He said he didn't know how it would affect the case against her since all those involved were already aware of the documents.

Pitino told police that Cunagin Sypher called him about two weeks after the initial encounter and said that she was pregnant. They arranged to meet at the condominium of Louisville strength coach Tim Sypher, whom she did not know at that time but would later marry.

According to the police report, Pitino told her that he had five children and she had four, and that he didn't know what he wanted to do. Pitino said Cunagin Sypher had decided to get an abortion but claimed to not have health insurance. Pitino then gave her the $3,000. He told police that the two did not have sex at the condo or at any other location.

Sources close to Pitino refuted the account in the police report, telling ESPN.com's Andy Katz that the $3,000 was provided by the coach to help Cunagin Sypher with health insurance.

According to the report, Cunagin Sypher married Tim Sypher about six months later and, though she saw Pitino at team events, he claims there was never "any strange behavior." Cunagin Sypher and Tim Sypher are now estranged and divorce proceedings have been initiated.

The criminal complaint said Tim Sypher brought Pitino a written list of demands from his wife, including college tuition for her children, two cars, money to pay off her house and $3,000 per month. The demands later escalated to $10 million, the complaint said. Tim Sypher has not been charged in the case.

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Maybe he knows something about 5 dead hookers?