Tag Archives: Rick Pitino

Karen Sypher: Ex abused daughter

The saga involving Karen Cunagin Sypher and University of Louisville men’s basketball coach Rick Pitino took another ugly turn this week, with self-described “Fertile Myrtle” filing a child abuse report against Pitino and her ex-husband Tim Sypher. The claim involves Karen Sypher’s 5-year-old daughter, who lives with her father and is involved in a nasty [...]

Sypher team unveils “shocking revelations”

“I thank God that someone has come to my rescue.” So spoke Karen Cunagin Sypher, the wily femme fatale who was convicted earlier this year for extorting money from University of Louisville men’s basketball coach Rick Pitino. Sypher held a press conference today with her new legal counsel in a second floor conference room at [...]

The Whore vs. The Pig

Further proof that our judicial system eschews an enlightened jury… from The C-J: Karen Cunagin Sypher’s lawyer asked a federal judge Tuesday to dismiss the entire pool of potential jurors in her extortion case, saying 60 percent have indicated they have already formed an opinion about her and the charges she faces. As jury selection [...]

Lunchbox: Health Care Reform signed into law

Paul v. Yarmuth?: Though he’s in a race for U.S. Senate, Republican Rand Paul helped organize a small rally slamming U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth, a Democrat, over health care reform. Yarmuth was the only member of Kentucky’s delegation to vote for the historic overhaul. The protests outside the Romano Mazzoli Federal Building in downtown Louisville [...]

Pitino Press Conference UNCENSORED

The reverse-psychology often employed by Bugs Bunny so rarely works outside of a cartoon setting, much less a sex scandal involving a hot-headed, high-profile college basketball coach and a woman who is, for all intents and purposes, quite possibly insane. Rick Pitino’s chastising of the media at his afternoon press conference attempted to do just that: [...]

“Does that booth come with a sanitary napkin?”

We know, we know: There’s nothing else going on besides a six-year-old tryst that happened in an Italian restaurant where food is apparently served to customers who may or may not have sex with one another in the restaurant.  In order to suss out the economic effects of the Pitino-Sypher snafu, I dined there last [...]

Live, From New York: It’s A Louisville Sex Scandal!!!!

So apparently Rick Pitino is in some trouble? Seriously: It’s a big deal! Big enough, in fact, to attract the attention of Rupert Murdoch’s personal refuse basin, The New York Post, as well as the New York Daily News, which people still read. The Post story is a thing of beauty, really: Transcribing nearly verbatim [...]