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May 14, 2012 6:29 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - A federal appeals court is set to reveal the identities of the three judges who will hear an appeal from a woman convicted of trying to extort University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino. The U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals is scheduled on Monday to release...
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April 15, 2012 6:08 PM
LUTZ, Fla. (AP) - After firing Isiah Thomas, Florida International is set to replace him with another recognizable name. Louisville coach Rick Pitino said Sunday that his son Richard Pitino is leaving his staff with the Cardinals to become the next coach at FIU, which has posted 12 straight losing...
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March 29, 2012 6:15 PM
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Rick Pitino will dance like a fool to get a smile out of his granddaughter. Freshmen who were scared to utter a word around him are practically his BFFs now. A changed man? At this Final Four, no doubt. But not for the reasons most people...
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March 24, 2012 7:04 PM
PHOENIX (AP) - Rick Pitino nudged out Billy Donovan for a spot in the Final Four on Saturday when his Louisville team finished the game on a 23-8 run for a 72-68 victory over Florida in the West Regional. Chane Behanan hit the go-ahead basket with 1:04 left for fourth-seeded...
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January 10, 2012 11:04 PM
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - It was a trip down memory lane for first-year Providence coach Ed Cooley and the Friars' fans, and the current team provided a fitting result. Bryce Cotton and Kadeem Batts each scored 27 points and Providence made Lousiville coach Rick Pitino's night miserable on a day...
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December 30, 2011 8:02 PM
To the obvious. Every time Cal and Pitino square off, it's going to be a story about them and of course the game. There was a point in time where they were close. That was a long time ago.
"I've known him for a lot of years," says Cal....
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December 27, 2011 3:36 PM
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Rick Pitino said Tuesday that he won't coach past the 2016-2017 season when his current contract ends at Louisville. "When you're 59, you're realistic that you don't have a whole lot of years left," Pitino said at a news conference before the No. 4 Cardinals play...
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November 13, 2011 6:51 PM
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Freshman Chane Behanan had 10 points and 13 rebounds for a second straight double-double to start his college career and No. 9 Louisville overcame another injury to beat cold-shooting Lamar 68-48 at the Global Sports Invitational on Sunday. Louisville guard Mike Marra, who had dealt with...
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October 4, 2011 1:01 PM
Cal makes me laugh.
If anyone out there doesn't think he did this on purpose, I've got some swamp land for sale.
What's even crazier, there is a lot of truth to it, and at the same time, he ticked off Pitino and Louisville fans. So, with one...
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April 26, 2011 2:13 PM
University of Louisville men's basketball coach Rick Pitino has filled two assistant coaching positions on his staff.
Richard Pitino, an assistant men's basketball coach for the past two years at the University of Florida and son of the Cardinals' head coach, has returned to the U of L staff...
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April 6, 2011 3:19 PM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - The woman convicted of trying to extort money from Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino has reported to a federal prison in Florida to begin serving an 87-month sentence.
Karen Cunagin Sypher checked into the minimum-security federal women's prison in Marianna at 1:50 p.m. EDT on Wednesday,...
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February 21, 2011 4:34 PM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - The attorney for the woman convicted of trying to extort University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino has filed a notice that she intends to appeal the case. Lawyer David Nolan, who represents Karen Cunagin Sypher, on Monday filed the two-page notice in U.S. District Court in...
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February 17, 2011 9:56 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - On the eve of her sentencing, the woman convicted of trying to extort Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino of millions of dollars is again seeking a new trial.
Karen Cunagin Sypher's attorney, David Nolan, said in a motion filed Thursday that a new examination of the...
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February 14, 2011 9:43 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - A federal appeals court has rejected a bid to remove the judge overseeing the case of a woman convicted of trying to extort millions from University of Louisville coach Rick Pitino.
The two-page decision issued Monday morning by the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals also...
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February 9, 2011 4:28 PM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - A federal judge says the woman convicted of attempting to extort Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino has not produced any new evidence and will not get a new trial.
U.S. District Judge Charles R. Simpson III wrote Wednesday that claims by Karen Cunagin Sypher of "newly...
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January 14, 2011 3:21 PM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - A federal judge has rescheduled the sentencing for the woman convicted of attempting to extort Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino.
U.S. District Judge Charles R. Simpson signed an order moving Karen Cunagin Sypher's sentencing from Tuesday to Feb. 18. Simpson said attorneys need more time to...
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January 14, 2011 10:25 AM
(WAVE-TV) - In the latest developments in the Karen Sypher extortion case, Sypher's attorney, David Nolin, filed a motion overnight requesting access to electronic information they say is relevant to her defense.
In the motion, Sypher's attorneys are asking for copies of all email and text messages sent by...
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January 6, 2011 10:14 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - The woman convicted of trying to extort University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino is asking a federal judge for a new trial and to allow an outside examination of evidence in her case.
Karen Cunagin Sypher's new legal team filed the request late Wednesday night,...
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December 30, 2010 8:47 PM
(AP) - Louisville coach Rick Pitino thought it looked like roller derby. Kentucky center Josh Harrellson kept waiting for another fight to break out. Coach John Calipari sensed a maliciousness that bordered on unseemly. Whatever happened during Kentucky's bruising 71-62 win over the rival Cardinals a year ago, it wasn't...
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December 30, 2010 1:58 PM
Rick Pitino says Rakeem Buckles has spiral fracture in finger, and will miss the UK game.
The 6-foot-8 inch 210 pounder has started 8 of Louisville's 11 games and is averaging 8 points and 7.5 rebounds a game.
That means Louisville is without four players who are part...
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December 30, 2010 10:41 AM
Forget about the houses, the books, the speeches, the money. Rick Pitino is home on the basketball court.
Pitino had lost his way. Sure he's won a lot of games at Louisville since taking took over for Denny Crum's crumbling, once regal program.
And even though he went...
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December 29, 2010 2:22 PM
(AP) - Kenny Payne's visits to Louisville in the two decades since he played for the Cardinals have typically been celebrations, a chance for the former small forward and his teammates on the 1986 national championship team to be cheered one more time. Things will likely be different on Friday....
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December 23, 2010 12:32 PM
A federal judge has denied a request that he disqualify himself in Karen Sypher's extortion case involving University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino.
U.S. District Judge Charles Simpson, III also denied Sypher's request for a special grand jury to investigate what she has said are "criminal civil rights...
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December 20, 2010 6:11 PM
Rick Pitino is taking on another rebuilding project. The only men's college basketball coach to lead three teams to the Final Four has agreed to coach the Puerto Rico national team next summer in the FIBA Tournament of the Americas with an eye toward qualifying for the 2012 Olympics. "It's...
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December 17, 2010 2:53 PM
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Louisville coach Rick Pitino will meet with Puerto Rico basketball officials on Sunday in Miami to discuss coaching the national team in next summer's pre-Olympic qualifying tournament. Pitino said Friday he considers it "an honor" to be among the candidates for the position. He plans to...
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November 30, 2010 5:12 PM
Former Pacers sharp shooter Reggie Miller leads the nominations for the 2011 Basketball Hall of Fame.
Also among this year's nominees are point guard Mark Jackson, forward Bernard King, forward Chris Mullin, coach Don Nelson and forward Dennis Rodman.
The North American committee also nominated Maurice Lucas, Jamaal...
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November 22, 2010 3:12 PM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - The woman convicted of trying to extort millions from University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino wants a federal judge to appoint a special panel to reinvestigate her case.
In a motion made public Monday, Karen Cunagin Sypher claims to have a witness to evidence tampering...
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October 26, 2010 4:34 PM
(AP) - The woman convicted of extorting University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino has protested her innocence to a federal judge.
In an unusual letter publicly released Tuesday, Karen Sypher told U.S. District Judge Charles R. Simpson III that she is "faced with a conviction for something I...
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October 26, 2010 4:23 PM
Rick Pitino gets a big man for this season. University of Louisville freshman center Gorgui Dieng has been cleared by the NCAA to play immediately.
A 6-10 center from Kebemer, Sengal, Dieng had been awaiting an appeal of his freshman eligibility requirements for the last few weeks. He began...
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October 26, 2010 12:13 PM
Karen Sypher's new lawyer is officially back on the job after he was reinstated to practice law after paying his bar dues
Spher hired Washington, D.C. lawyer David B. Nolan last week. She was convicted of trying to extort money from University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino. Sypher...
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October 22, 2010 4:10 PM
The sentencing for a woman convicted of trying to extort money from University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino was postponed Friday.
Karen Sypher's had been scheduled to be sentenced on October 27 in the case, but the judge in the case ordered the postponement because Sypher currently does...
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October 21, 2010 9:51 PM
NEW YORK (AP) - College basketball coaches aren't ready to pack in their summer recruiting road trips. Some are quite upset over a proposal that would eliminate July men's basketball recruiting beginning in 2012. It's a pivotal evaluation time for coaches, who travel to various summer camps and clinics over...
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October 21, 2010 4:00 PM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - The woman convicted of trying to extort University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino said Thursday she wanted to testify at her trial, but her attorney refused to allow it.
Karen Sypher, appearing at a press conference with her new lawyer, said she had multiple witnesses...
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October 20, 2010 9:06 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - The woman convicted of trying to extort money from University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino has replaced her attorney as her sentencing hearing nears.
A jury convicted Karen Sypher in August of three counts of extortion, two counts of lying to the FBI and a...
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October 13, 2010 5:41 PM
When it comes to having confidence, don't worry about Terrance Jones.
How a player sees himself can have a lot to do with how they adjust to life as a college player. "Versatile player who pretty much likes to take advantage of his matchups," say the 6-foot-9 freshman forward....
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October 13, 2010 3:21 PM
The woman convicted of extorting University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino is asking to delay her sentencing hearing.
Karen Sypher's attorney asked that the October 27 sentencing hearing be put off for at least 30 days. He says he needs the time to finish preparing for the sentencing....
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October 6, 2010 2:55 PM
Cal has a good problem. A problem that every coach would love to have, and only a few really experience it.
More players, many who we might never hear about, wanted to play for UK, but there aren't enough scholarships available.
Tony Wroten no longer has Kentucky in...
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October 5, 2010 1:02 PM
Louisville just got shorter for the upcoming season. Coach Rick Pitino has lost a player to eligibility and has two injuries which will effect his team when practice opens on October 15.
Pitino, talking with reporters before the annual Cardinals Tipoff luncheon said that Gorgui Dieng was ruled ineligible....
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August 26, 2010 1:45 PM
Will this come down to a battle between Cal and Ricky P? Too early to tell because of the other big time programs involved with Chase Behanan.
You have to love the theatrics. The 6-foot-7 inch star at Bowling Green HS was excited about going to spend quality time...
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August 4, 2010 5:10 PM
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A jury deliberated for nearly two hours Wednesday but went home without reaching a decision in the case of a Kentucky woman accused of demanding millions from Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino to keep quiet about their sexual tryst. Karen Cunagin Sypher, 50, has pleaded not...
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August 3, 2010 4:39 PM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - Prosecutors have rested their case against a woman charged with trying to extort millions from Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino to stay silent about a single sexual fling in a restaurant. Tuesday's close came after seven days of testimony and 21 witnesses, the star being Pitino himself,...
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August 2, 2010 5:06 PM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - A Louisville police investigator told a woman accused of demanding millions from Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino that she was "all over the place" as she filed a police report accusing him of rape. Sgt. Andy Abbott also told Karen Cunagin Sypher in July 2009 that her...
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August 2, 2010 11:49 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - A former lawyer for Karen Cunagin Sypher has testified that allegations she planned to make in a lawsuit against Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino were serious, but he didn't know if the case could be won. Attorney Dana R. Kolter said Monday that he thought Sypher's accusation...
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July 30, 2010 12:36 PM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - A longtime aide to Rick Pitino told jurors Friday that 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 during a one-night tryst at a restaurant. The aide, Tim Sypher, testified...
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July 28, 2010 11:21 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino has arrived at federal court for the extortion trial of a woman with whom he had a sexual fling. Pitino walked through the front door of U.S. District Court in Louisville about 11 a.m. Wednesday, the third day of the trial of...
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July 28, 2010 5:05 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - Jurors in the case of Karen Cunagin Sypher have heard the night she met University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino at an Italian restaurant in Louisville. Now, they are expected to hear from Pitino himself on Wednesday. Pitino's attorney, Steve Pence, said the coach will likely...
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July 27, 2010 5:20 AM
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - The lawyer for University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino said he may testify Tuesday afternoon or Wednesday in the case of a woman accused of trying to extort him. Attorney Steve Pence, a former federal prosecutor, told The Associated Press that Pitino's testimony could last...
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July 26, 2010 11:58 AM
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A woman charged with trying to extort University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino lied repeatedly in an attempt to squeeze millions from the coach, then traded sexual favors and lied again to cover her crime, federal prosecutors said at the start of her trial Monday....
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July 26, 2010 5:29 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - Opening statements are scheduled for Monday morning 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. Attorneys will state their case to a jury of eight men and eight women at...
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July 23, 2010 3:46 PM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - The attorney for University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino wants to quash a subpoena from the woman accused of trying to extort his client. Steve Pence filed a motion Friday asking U.S. District Judge Charles R. Simpson to throw out the subpoena from Karen Cunagin Sypher,...
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July 21, 2010 9:23 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - The attorney for a woman charged with trying to extort University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino wants thousands of pages of evidence excluded from the trial. James Earhart, who represents Karen Cunagin Sypher, said in a motion filed late Tuesday night that prosecutors have turned over...
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July 15, 2010 1:37 PM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - The attorney representing a woman charged with extorting University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino has asked that the jury seated in the case be dismissed. James Earhart, who represents Karen Cunagin Sypher, also asked U.S. District Judge Charles R. Simpson III to move the trial to...
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July 14, 2010 12:37 PM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - A group of 16 jurors has been seated to hear the trial a woman charged with trying to extort University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino. Attorneys selected the eight men and eight women Wednesday after three days of winnowing a pool of more than 90 people...
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July 14, 2010 10:12 AM
The lawyer for the woman accused of trying to extort Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino has asked a federal judge to dismiss the entire pool of potential jurors in the case, claiming that more than half have said they've already formed an opinion about her. According the the Louisville Courier-Journal,...
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July 7, 2010 12:28 PM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - Federal prosecutors said Wednesday that a Louisville woman charged with trying to extort money from University of Louisville men's basketball coach Rick Pitino had made earlier, false claims of sexual harassment against a businessman. Prosecutors said in a court document that Sypher filed a sexual harassment lawsuit...
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June 28, 2010 2:16 PM
Roburt Sallie, a 6-5, 200-pound guard from Sacramento, Calif. who has played the last two years at the University of Memphis, has signed a financial aid agreement to play his final collegiate season at the University of Louisville.
A two-year letterman for the Tigers, Sallie averaged 10.5 points, 4.0...
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June 8, 2010 11:55 PM
Sources are telling FoxSports.com that former wildcat Walter McCarty will leave the University of Louisville, where he is an assistant coach, to join the staff of the Indiana Pacers. Jeff Goodman confirmed that via twitter late Tuesday night. McCarty has been on Rick Pitino's bench at Louisville for three seasons....
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May 30, 2010 6:43 PM
LOUISVILLE, (AP) - Former NBA star Antoine Walker is back in Kentucky practicing with his college coach, Rick Pitino. The Courier-Journal reports that Walker is attempting to make a professional comeback after filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy earlier this month. He has been conditioning with Pitino at the University of...
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May 24, 2010 12:04 PM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - A federal judge has denied a request to move the trial of a woman charged with trying to extort $10 million from University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino. U.S. District Judge Charles R. Simpson III ruled Monday that Karen Cunagin Sypher couldn't show that pretrial publicity...
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May 5, 2010 3:17 PM
Former NBA All-Star Antoine Walker is eyeing an NBA comeback. Louisville coach Rick Pitino says Walker will work out with several Cardinals over the next few weeks. Walker hasn't played in the NBA since 2008 and has suffered legal and financial woes since stepping away from the game. Walker agreed...
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May 5, 2010 1:58 PM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - Louisville coach Rick Pitino says it's time for the Cardinals to get back to basics. Pitino said Wednesday the Cardinals must re-brand themselves following the departure of center Samardo Samuels, who is skipping his final two years of eligibility to turn pro. In his absence, the Cardinals...
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May 4, 2010 3:58 PM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - The trial of a woman charged with trying to extort $10 million from University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino has been delayed until July. U.S. District Judge Charles R. Simpson III issued the order on Tuesday, bumping proceedings from June 1, after both defense attorneys and...
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April 27, 2010 2:59 PM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - Federal prosecutors aren't objecting to a defense request to delay the extortion trial of Karen Cunagin Sypher. The Courier-Journal reported Tuesday that Assistant U.S. Attorney John Kuhn Jr. said the request is reasonable after prosecutors turned over thousands of pages of documents and hours of recordings to...
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April 19, 2010 3:28 PM
Louisville will play its first men's basketball game in a new $238 million downtown arena against NCAA runner-up Butler. Coach Rick Pitino announced Monday that the game is set for Nov. 16 at the KFC Yum! Center. Pitino says the last game the Cards played at their old home in...
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March 31, 2010 3:33 PM
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Louisville and coach Rick Pitino have agreed in principle to a four-year contract extension that will keep Pitino with the Cardinals through 2017. Financial terms have yet to be worked out, but athletic director Tom Jurich says he wants Pitino's salary to be competitive with the...
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March 22, 2010 4:38 PM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - A June trial date has been tenatively set for a woman charged in an alleged extortion attempt of University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino. U.S. District Judge Charles Simpson on Monday set the trial for June 1 at the federal courthouse in Louisville. Karen Cunagin Sypher...
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March 18, 2010 5:23 AM
Court officials have set a trial date for Karen Sypher, the Louisville woman accused in an extortion plot against University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino. A Louisville TV station reports that the trial is scheduled to begin June 1. Sypher says that she is not guilty of any of...
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February 25, 2010 4:45 PM
There was good and bad in Cal's decision making against Vandy.
The good happened because of a big mistake by Rick Pitino when he was coaching the Cats.
Who can forget the final 2.1 seconds against Duke in the NCAA tournament in 1992 when Pitino didn't put a...
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