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...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 Karen Sypher was charged in federal court with extortion and lying to the FBI. She was indicted...
...criminal complaint, Pitino acknowledges "an encounter" with Sypher in 2003. Sometime after that, Tim Sypher, the team's equipment manager, met Karen, and they were married. In late February 2009, Pitino told the FBI, he received two voice mails on his personal cell phone from an unidentified man who characterized the interaction between Pitino and an unnamed woman as criminal. The caller later threatened to notify the media. Pitino said he then met with Sypher and her husband and asked what she wanted. Karen Sypher wrote out a list of demands, he said, including college tuition for her children...
...Karen Sypher's new attorney, Thomas Clay, declined to elaborate on her allegations or why she didn't file a criminal complaint at the time. While the government contends they are irrelevant to the extortion case, Clay told TIME he will fight to include them if the case goes to trial. "There's a very compelling legal reason" for that, he said, "which I'm not at liberty to disclose." Tim Sypher has backed Pitino and criticized his estranged wife, who has filed for divorce. "I think Mr. Sypher is in a very delicate and precarious position," Clay said...
...Karen Tumulty (9:48 p.m.) Start w a teleprompter joke. Good move...
Move aside trayless dining, looks like Harvard’s onto a more convenient way to save the environment. Katharine (“Katie”) S. Walter ’10 and Karen A. McKinnon ’10, co-chairs of Harvard’s Environmental Action Committee (EAC), have enabled students to expend their eco-friendly energy in a much easier way. In fact, it’s as simple as riding a bike—a bike that’s made entirely out of salvaged and recycled parts, that is. The EAC launched the VeriFast...