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Newly Named Iona College Basketball Coach Rick Pitino Sells Florida Estate For $17M Newly Named Iona College Basketball Coach Rick Pitino Sells Florida Estate For $17M
Newly Named Iona College Basketball Coach Rick Pitino Sells Florida Estate For $17M New Iona College men’s basketball coach Rick Pitino has sold his waterfront Florida mansion for $17 million as he prepares to make his way to Westchester. Pitino’s 10,000-square-foot Mediterranean-style mansion, which is on the water in the exclusive enclave of Indian Creek Island has been on the market since 2016. Pitino originally bought the property in 1999 for $5.4 million. It was reportedly originally listed for nearly $24 million when it went on the market. The island, located north of Miami, is made up of its own village, 34 homes, state-of-the-art golf course and has a 13-member po…

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by Zak Failla
Sports
Rick Pitino Coming Home To New York As Iona College Basketball Coach Rick Pitino Coming Home To New York As Iona College Basketball Coach
Rick Pitino Coming Home To New York As Iona College Basketball Coach Rick Pitino's college basketball coaching comeback will be made in his native New York. Pitino, the only coach to lead three different schools to the Final Four, was fired as University of Louisville head coach in September 2017 after he was implicated in a federal investigation involving bribes to recruits. On Saturday, March 14, a day after announcing 10-year coach Tim Clueless had resigned due to health reasons, Iona College in New Rochelle has named Pitino as its new head coach. Pitino, a New York City native who attended high school on Long Island at St. Dominic in Oyster Ba…

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by Joe Lombardi
Sports
Former CT High School Standouts Playing Key Roles In NCAA Tournament Former CT High School Standouts Playing Key Roles In NCAA Tournament
Former CT High School Standouts Playing Key Roles In NCAA Tournament There may be no Connecticut Huskies in this year’s NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, but there are still plenty of ballers in the Field of 68 that call the Nutmeg State home.  Most notable of the players is Steven Enoch, a redshirt junior on the Louisville Cardinals.  Enoch, a native of Norwalk, actually played his first two years of collegiate hoops with UConn before transferring out of the program in 2017 due to differences with former coach Kevin Ollie. Nowadays, Enoch’s imposing 6’10” frame is an important part of Louisville’s big man rotation.  It’s been quite a rollerc…

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by Vira Mamchur Schwartz
Sports
Adidas Executive, College Basketball Recruiting Insiders Convicted In SDNY Corruption Case Adidas Executive, College Basketball Recruiting Insiders Convicted In SDNY Corruption Case
Adidas Executive, College Basketball Recruiting Insiders Convicted In Sdny Corruption Case Three whistleblowers have been convicted have been convicted for funneling money to top prospects to steer them toward some of college basketball’s biggest programs. James Gatto, Merl Code and Christian Dawkins are facing up to 20 years in prison after being convicted of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud for their roles in running schemes to recruit players in violation of NCAA rules. The three were tried in Manhattan federal court by the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of New York. Gatto, the director of global basketball sports marketing at Adidas, Code, an Ad…

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by Zak Failla