College basketballLouisville's Rick Pitino banned over claims escorts were used to woo recruitsNCAA says Rick Pitino failed to monitor staffer Andre McGeeMcGee alleged to have hired strippers and escorts for sex partiesThe NCAA has suspended Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino for five Atlantic Coast Conference games following its sex scandal investigation.
On Thursday, the college sports governing body also placed the basketball program on four years’ probation, vacated wins in which ineligible players participated and handed down a 10-year show-cause order for former basketball operations director Andre McGee. Read More...
Film This article is more than 23 years oldRape Me passed uncut in FranceThis article is more than 23 years oldThose on the look-out for the next big movie controversy would be well advised keep close tabs on the explicit French movie Rape Me, which has just been passed for cinematic release by the French censors. The latest word from those connected with the film is that negotiations are currently underway to distribute the film in the UK at some point later this year. Read More...
Science fiction booksReviewOnly the young survive in this fascinating thought experiment by the author of The Three-Body ProblemThe jacket for Cixin Liu’s new novel carries a blurb from none other than Barack Obama: “Wildly imaginative, really interesting … The scope of it was immense.” What the publishers rather disingenuously neglect to specify is that this and the other glowing review snippets are not for the present book at all, but for the multi-award-winning, global phenomenon that was his Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy, beginning with The Three-Body Problem (first published in English in 2014). Read More...
