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After a deafening roar shook Louisville in mid-April, the basketball-crazy burg is back to a low hum. The big noise arose when University of Louisville coach Rick Pitino released a statement that alleged he was the subject of an extortion attempt. It persisted for nearly a week, until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Talk of Louisville: Extorting Rick Pitino | 5/13/2009 | See Source »

Pitino has said the Boston experience got the wanderlust out of his system and that Louisville is where he wants to finish his career. But the bizarre extortion case seems to lend plausibility to the notion that he might want to go to a place where his personal business isn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Talk of Louisville: Extorting Rick Pitino | 5/13/2009 | See Source »

The extortion case has fueled wild speculation about Sypher's allegations. The complaint filed by the FBI does not list them, citing their "suspect" nature. And though Sypher has told her story to some Louisville media, thus far no outlet has published or broadcast them. She first went to WDRB...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Talk of Louisville: Extorting Rick Pitino | 5/13/2009 | See Source »

Scott C. Cox, a Louisville attorney and former U.S. prosecutor, told TIME it's unusual for a court filing not to recite allegations, but added that "it's not every day that we have an extortion case in the Western District of Kentucky. I think they're trying to be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Talk of Louisville: Extorting Rick Pitino | 5/13/2009 | See Source »

Current President Martin Torrijos - the son of the late Panamanian strongman Brigadier General Omar Torrijos, who got the U.S. in 1977 to sign the treaty that eventually gave the canal to Panama - has pushed through some anticorruption reforms. But scandals have persisted. Herrera's campaign had to fight allegations that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Panama's New President: A Boost for Business | 5/5/2009 | See Source »

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