Looks like a tell all book is about to drop. Apparently someone in the Louisville athletic department was arranging and paying for strippers and escorts to entertain the players and recruits. A new book is alleging a staff member at Louisville "paid escorts to dance for and have sex with players and recruits," according to a report by Pat Forde of Yahoo! Sports. The allegations appear in a book co-authored by Louisville escort Katina Powell and journalist Dick Cady titled, "Breaking Cardinal Rules: Basketball and the Escort Queen." The book alleges that over a four-year period, Powell brought women into Billy Minardi Hall - the basketball dormitory on the Louisville campus that is named after Pitino's late brother-in-law - through a side door to entertain players and recruits. Powell also says her dancers - which included her daughters - also entertained Louisville players at other locations off-campus. After the women danced for the players for an agreed-upon sum, Powell alleges that she would negotiate a second payment for the women to have sex with the athletes. Now is it me or is this just the least shocking thing you could ever hear going on in a major college athletic program. Hell I assumed that this is standard practice at a lot of places, well maybe not the hiring pros but I know that lots of these school have "hostess" programs. http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/13794771/louisville-cardinals-investigating-book-claims-escort-was-paid-sex-recruits
Seriously. Using attractive women to get a man's attention? They may as well file this in the same category as "Earth Continues to Revolve Around Sun" and "Water Is Wet."
