Rick Pitino, the Rudy Giuliani of adulterous basketball coaches

[marmar]

Pitino Apologizes, Once Again Invokes 9/11
By Tommy Craggs, 12:52 PM on Thu Aug 13 2009


Rick Pitino's brother-in-law was a trader at Cantor Fitzgerald, and he died on 9/11 along with 3,000 other people, and now his and their memory is being invoked by a guy who, at best, is a floor-rutting womanizer.

Pitino apologized to his family, his players, his recruits, other families, the university, even sportswriters for "that indiscretion six years ago," which he then, somehow, related to that one really big indiscretion eight years ago:

"When 9/11 hit, you needed a community to get you over it. In New York City, it was easy because everybody knew the devastation of that and they got each other over it. In Louisville, the impact wasn't felt like New York City, but I needed this community to help me get over it.

Pitino's gone this route before. In June, he obliquely addressed the Karen Sypher case, saying:

Times aren't easy, but if I can get through 9/11, I can get through anything in my life. And I got through 9/11 and there's nothing ever going to come close to that. We'll get through this in a positive way and move on.

Look, 9/11 was a national tragedy with profound personal dimensions for a lot of people, but the great majority of them have had the good sense not to wear it like a perpetual crown of thorns. Yes, Rick, please move on.


http://deadspin.com/5336693/pitino-apologizes-once-again-invokes-911

[Raven]

1. Here is what I don't get. What kind of pigs do you have to be to have

sex in restaurant bathroom? Really. Both of these people just disgust me.

[joecool65]

2. On a table after closing time

Pitino had sex with Sypher on a table after the restaurant closed. The owner gave Pitino the keys to the plac.

[FarPoint]

6. Sounds like fun to me.

O8)

[JohnnyLib2]

3. And he has the University president's backing......

Ugly story, probably will get worse. :thumbsdown:

[reflection]

4. What's that restaurant's rating from the Health Department again? n/t

[DefenseLawyer]

5. None of my business.

Next.

[BlooInBloo]

7. Clearly that's the biggest part of the story. The false rape accusation...

and blackmail charges don't really mean much. No matter how much they hurt other women who *really* get raped.