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Old May 22nd, 2012 #7
littlefieldjohn
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Default Bernie Fine's wife sues

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The wife of fired Syracuse University assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine filed a libel lawsuit Monday (5/22/2012)against ESPN, saying the network ruined her life by broadcasting salacious reports that she knew her husband abused boys and that she had sex with one of the boys.

In the 48-page lawsuit, Laurie Fine accuses ESPN of reporting the allegations against her husband in a bid to boost ratings as the Penn State sex-abuse scandal was unfolding. She notes the network had already done extensive reporting into claims made by ball boy Bobby Davis in 2003 and decided not to broadcast anything then because it couldn’t find any evidence to back up his claims.

Key to the suit is a 47-minute audiotape of a phone conversation with Laurie Fine that Davis said he made in 2002 in which she says she “knew everything” that went on. Her lawyer, Pittsburgh-based Lawrence Fisher, said the recording was doctored, selectively edited, reported out of context and did not definitively contain Laurie Fine’s voice.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports...LgU_story.html


She was also heard talking with the wives of other assistant coaches about performing oral sex on the boys, as well as evaluating their 'specific size and physical attributes'.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz1vcWUISjo