John Clay’s Sidelines

Links pertaining to report of U of L and ex-UK coach Rick Pitino’s admission that he had sex with Karen Sypher and gave her $3,000 to have an abortion:

• NEW: Pitino story on front page of Huffington Post.
• NEW: Mark Bradley of the AJC on Pitino affair.
• New York Times’ The Quad blog on what’s next for Pitino.
• Dick Weiss reports that Pitino scandal is the talk of Boston.
• New York Times headline, “Pitino says he paid for abortion.”
• Ken Howlett of A Sea of Blue asks, “Where have you gone Joe Dimaggio?”
• Card Chronicle says it is a very, very bad day to be a Louisville basketball fan.
• Cathy Burke of the New York Post calls it, “PITINO BOMBSHELL.”
• Larry Vaught of the Danville Advocate-Messenger writes that Pitino’s image is tarnished forever.
• USA Today wants to know what is Pitino’s next move?
• Deadspin thinks it will be fun watching the media fumble helplessly on the Pitino story.
• Kentucky Sports Radio refers to it as the news “hits the fan.”

• Deadspin also says (no kidding) that Pitino is no choir boy.
• AOL Fanhouse calls it a “melodrama.”
• Kansassports.com says that Pitino is not Bill Clinton smooth, but still slippery.
• Examiner.com brings up Joanne Pitino.
• Card Game has the headline: Keeping Louisville Weird.
• East Coast Bias says that extortion is much easier than being a groupie.