RICK PITINO RUMORS & GOSSIP

Pitino speaks with 4-star 2013 SG

Louisville is turning up the recruiting heat on four-star Princeton, NJ wing Davon Reed, who spoke with Rick Pitino Thursday night. InsideTheVille.com has the latest.
Via louisville.scout.com  |  9 days ago

Cardinal Crunch: Pitino, Crean are talking UofL-IU basketball series

A Louisville-Indiana basketball home-and-away series may be in the works starting next season, replacing the Hoosiers’ former annual rivalry with Kentucky.Good for Rick Pitino and Tom Crean. Two teams projected to be in the pre-season top five next season, are located within two hours of each other, and claim rich basketball tradtion.“The polls have us 1 and 2,”...
Via Louisville Card Game  |  19 days ago

Kennedy Meeks Thinks Very Highly Of Rick Pitino

Kennedy Meeks, a 4-star center from Charlotte, NC thinks very highly of Louisville head coach Rick Pitino. “Rick Pitino is one of the best coaches,” Meeks recently told Jeff Borzello of CBSSports.com. “He keeps it 100 percent real.” Meeks has offers from Louisville, Virginia Tech, North Carolina State, Stanford, UCLA, Georgetown, Notre Dame, and Pittsburgh among others. Syracuse...
Via The Cardinal Connect  |  24 days ago

Richardson joins Louisville's coaching staff

Kareem Richardson is one of three new additions to Louisville coach Rick Pitino's staff after Pitino's son, Richard, left to take over Florida International and took two Cardinals' staffers with him. Richardson spent last season at Xavier after working three years at Drake. Andre McGee will become Louisville's director of basketball operations replacing Mark Lieberman...
Via AP on Fox  |  27 days ago

Pitino Checked In On His Two Current Commitments In Vegas Over The Weekend

Rick Pitino made the most of the early spring evaluation period. Coach Pitino was in Las Vegas over the weekend checking in on his two current verbal commitments, Anton Gill from the 2013 class and Quientin Snider from the 2014 class. Both Gill and Snider’s respective AAU clubs struggled at times over the weekend, but the two future Cardinals had a great showing in the Adidas VIP...
Via The Cardinal Connect  |  April 23, 2012

Pitino Names Horses After Siva & Dieng

University of Louisville head basketball coach Rick Pitino has always professed his admiration for Peyton Siva and Gorgui Deing who are his star point guard and center respectively.  Now he finally found a way to prove it. Rick Pitino has had a passion for arguable the state of Kentucky’s second favorite sport behind the beloved college basketball.  Horse Racing.  Not only has...
Via The Cardinal Connect  |  April 22, 2012

Rick Pitino named his new horses after Peyton Siva and Gorgui Dieng

Most of us are familiar with Rick Pitino the championship-winning college basketball coach, but very few of us know Rick Pitino the horse enthusiast. Two of Pitino’s horses are currently being trained by thoroughbred trainer Randy Bradshaw, and he recently asked the Louisville coach for help in naming the pair of two-year-old colts. Natually, Pitino named them after his players...
Via Larry Brown Sports  |  April 20, 2012
FAMILY BUSINESS

Report: Pitino's son to coach FIU

Rick Pitino's son, Richard Pitino, is reportedly leaving his position as a Louisville assistant coach to replace Isiah Thomas as the head coach at FIU.

Via IMAGE CPR  |  April 15, 2012

Pitino: Son will be next FIU coach

Rick Pitino says his son Richard Pitino is leaving his staff at Louisville to become the next coach at Florida International. At FIU, Richard Pitino would replace Basketball Hall of Fame player Isiah Thomas, who was fired April 6 after going 26-65 in three seasons. FIU refused to confirm that Pitino and the Panthers had agreed on a deal, and players had not yet been told of the...
Via AP on Fox  |  April 15, 2012

Rick Pitino’s Side Piece Karen Sypher Releases This Book With Old Bikini Pics!

Remember Karen Sypher, the crazy broad who legitimately had sex with Rick Pitino in some Louisville restaurant and was eventually convicted of extortion charges? Yes, that crazy broad. The case hinged on Sypher “trying to force Pitino to give her money and other items in exchange for her silence on her allegations that he raped her twice in 2003, including once at a Louisville...
Via Busted Coverage  |  March 29, 2012
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