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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John Clay is a sports columnist for the Lexington Herald-Leader. A native of Central Kentucky and graduate of UK, he covered UK football for 13 seasons before being promoted to columnist in 2000. Born in Paris, he graduated from George Rogers Clark High School in Winchester in 1977. He lives in Lexington with his wife and two sons. You can e-mail him at jclay@herald-leader.com.