Rick Pitino
In late 2017, The University of Louisville fired coach Rick Pitino in light of the Louisville scandal. The FBI has been looking into how colleges recruit players. Louisville specifically has been implicated in this nonlegal tactics and Rick Pitino was accused of being aware that Adidas paid $100,000 to recruit Brian Bowen’s family in order to get him to commit to the school.
Rick Pitino
Pitino denies any foul play saying, “In 40 years of coaching, I have never been involved, directly or indirectly, in any effort to pay any money or extend any improper benefit to any recruit or recruit’s family members or representatives.” Pitino filed a lawsuit against Louisville for the rest of his contract money, $36 million.
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Ray Rice
Back in 2014, this Baltimore Ravens player was arrested and charged for assaulting his fiancee. There was even shocking video footage of him dragging her out of a hotel elevator. In addition, there was a video of him punching her. Thus, the Ravens cut him and NFL even suspended him indefinitely.
Ray Rice
However, the NFL investigation was so mishandled that the commissioner Roger Goodell apologized and overhauled the NFL’s official domestic violence policy. Even though Rice appealed the decision in federal court, he hasn’t played football since being let go in 2014.
