News Nuggets, 01.30.04
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LOUISVILLE — Rick Pitino
returned to Louisville on Thursday and resumed his coaching duties after a
two-day medical leave.
The 51-year-old Pitino
underwent tests at the Cleveland Clinic on Tuesday and Wednesday to
determine the cause of a "urological pain" that's persisted in his left side
for months.
Assistant coach Kevin Willard
stepped in for Pitino and led the fourth-ranked Cardinals to a 64-48 win
over Houston on Wednesday night.
Pitino was not available for
comment Thursday, but was expected to discuss his medical condition in a
news conference Friday, sports information director Kenny Klein.
The Cardinals (16-1) host
Marquette on Saturday at Freedom Hall.
Little Vick accused of sex with minor
BLACKSBURG — Police searched the apartment
of Virginia Tech quarterback Marcus Vick this week after two teenage girls
claimed he had sex with their 15-year-old friend, according to a search
warrant affidavit filed Thursday.
Vick, 19, has not been charged with any
crime. Police are investigating the incident as contributing to the
delinquency of a minor, which is a misdemeanor charge, according to the
affidavit.
"This is an ongoing investigation,"
Montgomery County Commonwealth's Attorney Joey Showalter said. "Out of
respect for the alleged complainants and the alleged suspects, I cannot
comment on the situation."
Vick, a redshirted sophomore, is the
brother of Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick. Police searched his
apartment Wednesday night.
Recruiting/sex scandal brewing at Colorado
DENVER — Prospective Colorado
football players were recruited with sex parties where women say they were
raped, and school officials have resisted demands to stop the practice,
according to depositions of a prosecutor and a police officer.
Boulder County District
Attorney Mary Keenan, a potential witness in a federal lawsuit filed by a
woman who says she was raped at a 2001 party attended by football recruits,
made the statement during an October deposition, which was obtained by KUSA-TV.
School officials have denied Keenan's accusations.
In her statement, Keenan said
she met with athletic department officials after a 17-year-old girl reported
she was raped by a football player or a recruit at party in 1997. Keenan
said she met with university officials again after a woman said she was
raped at the 2001 party. Keenan said she didn't believe school officials
took her complaints seriously.
Keenan said she was told by a
former Colorado athletic department official that athletic director Dick
Tharp and football coach Gary Barnett decided against any changes. "They
decided, after discussing the history, that they would not change anything
because they could not afford to lose the competitive edge against
universities such as Oklahoma (and) Nebraska," Keenan said.
Barnett and Tharp denied the accusations. "That is absolutely a 100 percent
out-and-out lie," Barnett said in Thursday's Denver Post. "I can't fathom
why anyone would imply that, say that, or make that up. It is a lie."
In another deposition in the
lawsuit, university police officer Timothy Delaria described another 2001
party as "some kind of sex party for the recruits." Delaria's deposition,
made in May 2003, said recruits were shown a pornographic video and told
that easy sex was a benefit of playing at Colorado.
Delaria, discussing a
transcript of a police interview with a football recruit, said the recruit
told officers, "They told us, you know, 'This is what you get when you come
to Colorado."'
Keenan and Delaria gave their
depositions as part of a lawsuit filed by Lisa Simpson, who contended she
was sexually assaulted by two men at the 2001 party. Simpson filed her case
anonymously but later said she wanted to set an example that victims need
not feel ashamed.
Prosecutors filed no sexual
assault charges after the party because they said they did not think they
could be proved. Four players were charged with providing marijuana and
alcohol to minors.
Another woman has filed a
lawsuit against the university saying she, too, was sexually assaulted at
the party.
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