Escort: Pitino should’ve known
Escort Katina Powell broke her silence on Tuesday, saying she has no proof that Louisville men’s basketball Coach Rick Pitino knew that a former Cardinals staffer hired her and other dancers to strip and have sex with former recruits and players.
But Powell said in an interview initially aired on ABC’s “Good Morning America” that with “a boatload” of recruits and dancers, “loud music, alcohol, security, cameras” in a campus dormitory, “how could Rick not know?”
In her first interview since the release this month of her book “Breaking Cardinal Rules: Basketball and the Escort Queen,” Powell spoke with ESPN’s “Outside the Lines,” part of which was aired on the ABC morning show and all day on the sports network. Powell said that the coach had to be aware of some of 22 shows she alleges that former staffer Andre McGee paid her for that took place in Billy Minardi Hall from 2010 to 2014.
Former Cardinals recruit JaQuan Lyle, now an Ohio State freshman, confirmed the “gist of allegations” detailed in Powell’s book during a meeting earlier this month with the NCAA, CBS Sports reported. Ohio State confirmed that Lyle spoke with the NCAA. to challenge his provisional suspension, officials who have supported the UEFA leader’s presidential campaign — such as Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa — must now decide whether to also apply by Monday’s deadline.
A reform commission said it was proposing a 12-year term limit for FIFA presidents and an age limit of 74 for the president and executives.
Chicago Blackhawks star Duncan Keith had right knee surgery, sidelining the top defenseman for the Stanley Cup champions for four to six weeks.
Tiger Woods has not started rehabilitation for a second back surgery he had a month ago, and he said he would face another “tedious and long” process that suggests it might be awhile before he competes again.
Woods last played at the Wyndham Champion on Aug. 23, where he tied for 10th for his best finish at a PGA Tour event in nearly two years.
In a surprise announcement Sept. 18, he said he had a second back surgery after doctors during a routine check discovered a fragmented disk pinching a nerve. Woods had his first surgery just before the 2014 Masters and missed nearly three months. He said later he came back too early.
Peninsula High School in Rolling Hills Estates has ended its football season with three games to go because of safety concerns, Southern Section spokesman Thom Simmons said.
“They don’t have enough players and feel it’s a safety issue,” Simmons said. “We support them.”
Peninsula had 27 players and has lost players to injuries.
The team was 2-5 with remaining Bay League games scheduled against Redondo, Inglewood and Palos Verdes.
Milwaukee Bucks player John Henson said that the owner of a Wisconsin jewelry store where he says employees racially profiled him apologized for what happened.
Henson said Thomas Dixon, owner of Schwanke-Kasten Jewelers in suburban Whitefish Bay, met with him at the team’s training facility. Henson said employees on Monday refused to let him in the store, then called police. “He knew that shouldn’t have happened,” said Henson.