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Former Louisville basketball assistant Dino Gaudio federally charged with extortion

The first major negative Louisville sports story that this website covered was Karen Sypher’s attempted extortion of Rick Pitino, which began all the way back in 2009.

The nine millionth negative Louisville sports story that the site is now covering is former assistant basketball coach Dino Gaudio’s attempted extortion of the program he used to work for.

Wherever you go, there you are.

According to court documents, after being told in March that his contract would not be renewed, Gaudio threatened to release to the media details of recruiting violations committed by U of L if he wasn’t paid his salary for an additional 17 months past his termination.