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    Shadowed By Scandals, Coach Rick Pitino Pens His 'Story'

    The Hall of Fame college basketball coach, fired by the University of Louisville in 2017 following recruiting violations, addresses his career and recent headline-grabbing mistakes in a new memoir.
    by Scott Simon Sep 08, 2018 4 minutes
    Rick Pitino receives a pre-game introduction at a Louisville Cardinals basketball home game in late 2015. The former coach has written a new memoir addressing the scandals that plagued his tenure at Louisville.

    Rick Pitino has an amazing record in college basketball. He coached three different teams — at Providence College, the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville — to the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament. He's a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame.

    But Rick Pitino is also the only NCAA men's basketball coach to have a national championship taken away. His Louisville Cardinals team was stripped of its 2013 national title because an investigation found recruits to the team had been offered sex with paid escorts. And coach Pitino was let go by Louisville last year when federal prosecutors revealed a player named Brian Bowen was recruited after an Adidas executive offered his family $100,000.

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