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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.”

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Karen Sypher

The Courier-Journal is reporting that U of L basketball coach Rick Pitino told Louisville police that he had consensual sex with Karen Sypher on Aug. 1, 2003, but he denied her allegation that he raped her.

Pitino did say that he gave Sypher $3,000 to have an abortion.

The C-J obtained the information through open records requests.

The C-J reports that prosecutors who have reviewed the charges do not believe that Pitino will be charged.

Syphers has been indicted on extortion charges.

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